ActionAid Palestine to Continue Responding to Spread of COVID-19 in Gaza Strip
Gaza Strip (GS)-Occupied Palestinian Territory-ActionAid Palestine (AAP) continued implementing its emergency interventions by providing 547 families with hygiene kits and food parcels. This intervention targets eight communities in the areas of Rafah, Khan Younis including (Eastern Rafah,town of Rafah, Al-Shaborah, Western Rafah,Bani Suhila, Khuzaha, Abasan al-Jadeeda-Abasan Al-Kabeera) through AAP’s programme of Local Rights and Resilience it runs in GS.This response will respond to the needs of the women survivors of Violence and families headed by women and most affected by COVID-19 and strengthen their resilience during the lockdown resulting from the spread of the virus and the prolonged blockade on Gaza over the 13 years.
(photo of young men from youth preparedness and response committees who are voluntarily participating in distributing food and hygiene kits infected families in khan Younis and Rafah- Gaza Strip through AAP’s response to the spread of COVID-19 -Gaza Strip-Palestine Copy Rights for ActionAid Palestine )
During last month, AAP in partnership with Ma’an Development Center and Wefaq Society for Women and Child Care identified the hygiene and food needs of the targeted groups and responded to their urgent needs after the increase in the number of the people infected with COVID-19 outside health quarantine in August.
(photo of young men from youth preparedness and response committees who are voluntarily participating in distributing food and hygiene kits infected families in khan Younis and Rafah- Gaza Strip through AAP’s response to the spread of COVID-19 -Gaza Strip-Palestine Copy Rights for ActionAid Palestine )
AAP and its local partners in the targeted areas empowered youth and increased their participation in national and sub-national decision-making processes related to preventive measures for combating COVID-19. Empowering youth was achieved by engaging youth and women members of preparedness and response committees in this response. This response also highlighted the leading role the youth play in emergency, stages of decision-making process and community interventions stressing the necessity to ensure fulfilling the needs of the marginalized groups in the response taken by the local authorities. 17 youth members of those committees were trained on how to address emergency cases, safety, preventive measures and social distance.
(photo of young men from youth preparedness and response committees who are voluntarily participating in distributing food and hygiene kits infected families in khan Younis and Rafah- Gaza Strip through AAP’s response to the spread of COVID-19 -Gaza Strip-Palestine Copy Rights for ActionAid Palestine )
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
Email: