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ActionAid Palestine to Continue Responding to the Needs of H2 to Combat COVID-19

A number of volunteers from  Sharek center/Hebron are preparing hygiene kits to be distributed on the needy families in H2 under AAP’s Preparedness and Response plan to COVID-19

Through its Child Sponsorship program, ActionAid Palestine (AAP) provided 91 needy Palestinian families living in the old city of Hebron(H2) with hygiene kits in partnership with Sharek center /Hebron.  

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A number of youth volunteers from AA P’s partner Sharek center/Hebron are preparing hygiene kits to be distributed on needy families in H2 in the south of West Bank under AAP’s preparedness and Response plan to COVID-19

This response targeted women from women groups established by AAP and a number of volunteers from AAP’s partner. Emergency response plan was designed and implemented in a way responding to the needs of targeted groups under the activities of Child Sponsorship programme. This response aimed to mitigate the impacts of pandemic affecting targeted families ,strengthen their resilience and protect them by taking preventive measures to contain the spread of pandemic under the current state of lockdown in Occupied Palestinian Territory(oPt) and  protection threats H2 suffers from caused by settlers’ violence and existence of military checkpoints.

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 A number of young volunteers from AAP’s partner Sharek center\Hebron are preparing hygiene kits to be distributed on the needy families in H2  in the south of West Bank under AAP’s preparedness and response plan to COVID-19

AAP has implemented several emergency interventions since the outbreak of virus in oPt within its Preparedness and Response plan that is being implemented in West Bank and Gaza strip.