How about a few numbers?
Have a look at this:
❤️ 200: the number of children who benefitted – 117 girls / 83 boys
❤️ 4: the number of local educational facilitators trained
❤️ 288: the number of supplementary classes delivered to children needing additional support to keep up with the curriculum.
❤️ 12%: the increase of academic achievement after program implementation
❤️ 288: the number of group psychosocial activities provided to children
❤️ 12: the number of capacity building workshops on trauma informed parenting delivered in Middle and North Gaza
❤️ 192: the Number of individual support sessions delivered to most traumatized children
❤️ 240 (217 female / 23 male): the number of parents/guardians with increased awareness, understanding and skills to identify trauma and support their children in the home.
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To be continued…
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Do you have an update on the state of play on your projects, please, and if your objectives have had to change?
Hi Bruce. Thank you for the question. As you can well imagine, everything is in flux at the moment. We don’t know how many of our grassroots partners on the ground are still alive, let alone functional, as most have had to look after their own families, and well over a million of the population has been forced out of their homes. We will be waiting until the end of this current onslaught to replan with them what is possible, which is part of the reason that this year we’ve been unable to estimate the cost of trauma therapy per child as we could previously. It’s a horrific place to find the teams in, let alone the hundreds of thousands of children who are now suffering unimaginable trauma. Thank you again for the question.
Thank-you Iyas,
I have only picked this up today!
Please let me know when you resume your work and you can tell us the nature of your resumes support for the children.
Undoubtedly this is the worst situation since the Nabka of 1948, when the Irgun and other strike groups terrorised hundreds of Palestinian village using their paid Palestinian spies, to point out those who had guns in their houses, promptly shot many of them in front of their families, sometimes massacring the villages, including rapes. All this leading to the forced expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians out of their own country, and then in the years that followed steal all their businesses, family belongings and commercial infrastructure, without compensation. Then denying return and destroying 600 villages to try and erase the millennia of Palestinian prescience.
We have friends, Meike and Richard Verity, with local supervisors/Managers of the schools, workshops and cricket teams, running projects in Shatila camp and other places in and around Beirut. Mainly for teenagers, mainly young women from Syria, but also young men, educating them , teaching them independence and hope and through cricket how to learn skills, build confidence and work in groups. It is called Alsama.
Best wishes,
Bruce Galley
Bruce, we have resumed some activities. Right now, they are limited to the provision of food for families (a most basic and essential need), with a focus on the North of Gaza where the situation in terms of starvation is most dire, and also the running of some art workshops with children especially in the South to provide some form of relief and positivity.