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If you’ve been looking for something concrete you can do right now to support kids in Palestine and across the Middle East, please consider donating to the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) today: https://www.mecaforpeace.org/donate/

Right now, 100% of your donation to MECA will be matched through December 31, which means anything you give will be doubled.

MECA is a nonprofit that works to protect the rights and improve the lives of children in the Middle East. They partner with local community organizations and get resources directly to families and kids.

About 60% of MECA’s funding comes from individual donors, so contributions from regular people like you is what sustains their work.

Some of the work your donation will support:

Emergency aid for displaced families in Gaza

Safe drinking water and electricity in Gaza

Trauma intervention and ongoing psychological support for children and families

New playgrounds in Palestinian villages and refugee camps

Community arts, sports, tutoring, and libraries for kids and teens

Scholarships for Palestinian university students

Support for refugees in Lebanon

You can read more about MECA’s work here: https://www.mecaforpeace.org/about-us/

Want to know exactly where your money will go? MECA publishes detailed financial reports and audited financial statements here: https://www.mecaforpeace.org/financial-reports-information

If you are able, please make a donation to MECA today—even $1, $5, or $10 clean water, emergency aid, and psychosocial support to Palestinian children and families living under siege, displacement, and continuous violence. When people give what they can, those “small” amounts turn into food, medicine, and real infrastructure on the ground.

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The official death toll in Gaza, since the start of the war in October 2023, is nearly 47,000 people, including about 18,000 children -- and most experts and analysts believe the true number of deaths if significantly higher. Those that remain are facing unimaginable challenges: they lack food, water, and many of the other basic supplies for survival. Many of them are severely injured or ill. Although the recent ceasefire deal seems likely to open the way for a significant increase in civilian aid, Palestinians in Gaza are still in acute need of support.

The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) has worked for over 30 years to protect the rights and improve the lives of children in the Middle East through aid, empowerment and education. Since October of 2023 they have mobilized their existing grassroots network to deliver supplies, drinking water, and hot meals to families in Gaza, as well as to provide emotional and psychological support to children there. Based in Berkeley, California, MECA operates both in the Middle East to provide direct humanitarian aid and services, and in the US and internationally to raise awareness about the lives of children in the region and encourages meaningful action.

MECA’s work in the Middle East includes:

Direct aid including food, medicine, medical supplies, and clothes as well as books, toys and school supplies. Since 1988, they have sent more than $31 million in aid to children in Palestine, Iraq and Lebanon

Financial support and professional assistance to community organizations in the West Bank and Gaza that help meet Palestinian children’s needs, including clinics, kindergartens, counseling centers, libraries; accessible parks and playgrounds; sports teams, and dance, music and art programs

University scholarships for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank

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