Support Yafa Camp School for Displaced Gazan children

Eighty percent of the people of Gaza have been displaced since the war. Tens of thousands moved to the central Gazan city of Deir al-Balah, which was bombed several times in spite of being marked as an evacuation zone by the Israeli army. The people of Gaza, the children, fathers, mothers, orphans, friends and strangers, now neighbors, nonetheless, continued every effort to live, fully, with complete dignity, to create homes in tents, learn in schools and pray in mosques (and churches). On October 6, the Israeli Army bombed the Shuhada al-Aqsa mosque while people were praying in the early hours (fajr) and the nearby Ibn Rushd school in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. A few hundred metres from the bombed Shuhada al Aqsa mosque lies Yafa camp. Here children try to learn, without a school, living in makeshift tents.

The communities around Deir al-Balah take their children to learn in these schools. You can support these communities with donations for lighting, tarpaulin for tents, supplies for a school, and other emergency relief and needs. Your donations will go to at least three or four different accounts so that the money is evenly distributed and accounted for. The organizer of this project has contributed to several projects before, with Rammum for food and for prayer mats and books.

I am a PhD student in the US, and a Canadian-Bangladeshi dual citizen. My friend from Gaza, Salim Qannita, who will distribute the funds for the school studied in Bangladesh for many years, where I met him. He was displaced, like many families in the camp, to Central Gaza.