ActionAid Palestine to Continue Responding to the Needs of H2 to Combat 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.
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.
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.
A young volunteer is 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
Through project of “Valiance “Basala”-Empowering women in H2” funded by Australian Government - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade(DFAT), AAP ‘s response to COVID-19 focused on responding to the needs and interest of women in this area by conducting raising awareness workshops on psychological and social issues through the use of social media and other available technological means. AAP also supported Women’s income-generating projects to strengthen the economic resilience of their families.
Background Information
ActionAid
ActionAid is a global federation working for social justice and gender equality and eradicate poverty. ActionAid works worldwide to empower people living in poverty and exclusion with focus on women’s rights .ActionAid works directly and closely with communities, civil society organizations, women movements and social groups and movements and other allies to tackle root causes of poverty and oppression. ActionAid deliver grassroots programmes to utilize efforts of global struggle movements working for a just, fair and sustainable world. Based on human rights-based approach and women rights’ principles, ActionAid seeks to fairly re-distribute powers through solidarity, empowerment, awareness campaigns and creating alternatives to ensure that everybody enjoys the right to a life of dignity, and freedom from oppression.
ActionAid in Palestine (AAP) is a part of that federation which started its work in Palestine in 2007 to strengthen the resilience of Palestinian People as ActionAid believes that they should enjoy their rights to freedom, justice and self-determination. AAP implements a number of programs through its engagement with communities and women and youth groups seeking to empower them and enhance their influential civil and political participation to understand their rights and undertake collective activism to address the protracted rights violations resulting from the prolonged occupation of Palestine. AAP works simultaneously to enhance their leadership capacity and knowledge to practice their citizenship in holding authorities and other duty bearers to account.
For more information, please contact
Riham Jafari
Coordinator of Advocacy and Communication in Gaza Strip and West Bank
Mobile:
+972 (0) 595242890
Office:
+972 (0) (2) 22 13 137
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