We bring hope and play to Palestinian children

Since 2024, our Gaza emergency work has supported over 100,000 children and their families with food to stay alive, and activities to keep hope alive. Read more >

Keeping families alive

We ensure that children and their families have the essentials they need to survive. Our teams source the few ingredients available – tinned food, any flour they can find, vegetables from the last functioning farmland – and cook for displaced people. Our soup kitchens provide simple meals to hundreds of families daily and we deliver safe drinking water to those in shelters and tents.

Our team members deliver this support to people, as they and their families face the same famine conditions. Read More >

Spaces to play

Play is essential for children’s physical health and development and their well-being. Since Israel’s assault on Gaza, children have been denied any opportunity to play. Our teams run play, games, and sports for children in locations across Gaza.

These games are a chance for children to feel moments of joy amid the destruction and terror they face every day. In turn, this helps them to build hope for a better future. Read More >

Opportunities to learn

Children have now missed two years of education. Schools are destroyed or are being used as shelters for displaced families. Our teams have set up ‘tent’ schools in four locations, each providing Arabic, English and Maths lessons to around 200 school-age children.

These lessons help children to remember the regular normality of a school schedule, and to pick back up their studies to help shape a brighter future for themselves. Read More >

Trauma support

People in Gaza are living through a genocide. Their children have been fored to witness what no human should ever see. The depth of their loss – of parents, family, friends, their own limbs, their education, their hope – is unfathomable. Meanwhile, their parents are parenting through their own tragedy and loss.

This trauma has immediate and lifelong effects. Our teams provide creative writing, arts and crafts, and counselling sessions to help them start to process their trauma. Read More >

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Why Hope and Play?

Palestine’s children deserve to live safe, happy and healthy lives. Every Hope and Play project has children’s needs at the centre, and aims to build hope for a bright future for Palestinian children.

100% of donations go to projects

Hope and Play trustees cover all administrative costs and our fundraising, monitoring, reporting and communications functions are staffed entirely by volunteers.

Grassroots and community-led

The people who most know what is needed are local families, community groups and grassroots organisations. We take our lead from them, then vet and evaluate projects together, and trust them (with monitoring in place) to deliver.

Trusted partners

Since we started work in 2008, we have partnered with vetted colleagues in Palestine who are rooted in Palestinian social care and education networks to deliver our play and education projects.

15+ Years of impactful delivery

Hope and Play has been delivering projects directly to Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and in Lebanon since 2008. Over that time, we’ ha’ve reached thousands of children with play, education, food and therapy.

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