HELP CHILDREN WITH CANCER IN PALESTINE!

The Palestinian health system is fragmented and under immense strain: hospitals have been damaged or closed, medicine stockouts are widespread, and specialist staff are increasingly scarce. These conditions make lifesaving cancer treatments for children — chemotherapy, radiotherapy and supportive care — dangerously inconsistent. Our project supports pediatric oncology patients and hospital teams at Beit Jala and partner units in the West Bank and Gaza by providing essential medicines, psychosocial care, and practical assistance for families.

Yafa’s story

Yafa was five when she arrived at Beit Jala from Hebron. Bright and curious, she loved to draw; then leukemia and the rupture from home turned her days into hospital corridors and painful treatments. Separated from much of her family, she faced needles, long waits and nights when hope felt thin.

For months the clinical road was hard: heavy chemotherapy cycles, infections, and the uncertainty that comes when medicines are scarce. Yet what changed the smallest things — the way she ate, the way she slept, the way she smiled at a volunteer — was the psychosocial support she received alongside medical care. Our psychologist, Farah, met Yafa and her mother with a simple aim: to make a terrifying world holdable again.

Through therapeutic play, gentle conversation and sessions where fear could be named rather than swallowed, Yafa learned to step back into childhood. She drew pictures of home, practiced breathing when pain came, and relearned how to trust caregivers again. Her mother found a place to express guilt and exhaustion, gaining concrete coping tools to stay by Yafa’s side during treatment.

Today Yafa walks slowly but with a clear smile. Psychosocial care did not change her diagnosis — it changed how she and her family lived through it. It kept them in treatment, it reduced isolation, and it restored small freedoms that illness and conflict had threatened to take.

How your donation helps

Donations provide chemotherapy drugs and supportive medicines, fund psychological services and therapeutic materials, and cover transport so families can reach treatment without impossible costs.

Help children like Yafa complete treatment and keep hope alive. Your gift saves lives and strengthens the health teams who care for them.