Executive Summary

 Because the destruction of homes and infrastructure in Palestine is worsening by the hour, it is impossible to be specific about future needs of what is left of that population. With some 8000 children already killed, the needs of survivors will be both in physical and mental trauma. The situation in the West Bank is also deteriorating fast but at least we have concrete and very successful projects ongoing there. We are therefore seeking financial support for:(a) two projects in child mental health;(b) one for undergraduate scholarships and advanced postgraduate training and; (c) one in physical trauma treating children permanently paraplegic or surviving as amputees.

Projects Seeking Financial Support

Project One: Scholarships for medical students in different universities in Palestine and overseas

This project aims to give healthcare professionals and medical students hope for a better future despite all difficulties. We also hope through this project to empower these young individuals and future doctors to complete their studies and join hands with their colleagues in delivering much needed healthcare services in Palestine.  This project is particularly focused on those students who have lost their families and/or those whose parents are now without work and destitute as a result of the current ongoing war.

Project Two: Support for our previously successful Child Mental Health Centre in Gaza

As many of you may already be aware, our existing centre in Gaza has unfortunately been recently destroyed for the second time as a result of the ongoing war, and now needing to start all over again from scratch once hostilities cease and we can plan for a long-term future. We are still holding on to our precious members of staff staying alive in Gaza and hoping they immediately start as soon as war is over. Not surprisingly, we are expecting the demand to be massive with large numbers of orphans and bereaved families needing the full range of mental health treatments.

 Project Three: Providing Prosthetics and Orthotics to War Victims Surviving with Limb amputation

We are increasingly approached to help kids and young individuals with amputated arms and/or legs as a result of this brutal war. We have engaged with discussions in Centres of excellence in limb prosthesis/prosthetics design through which we are hoping in a feasibility trial to provide 100 young amputees with the needed artificial limbs at almost production price. We are hoping in this pilot project to provide these children with the bespoke- built prosthetics, and to give them hope and integrate back in life.

Project Four: Child Mental Health Service in the West Bank

This service will be tailored to the needs of towns, villages and refugee camps in the West Bank particularly those coming from less privileged backgrounds including the Bedouin community. Based on our extensive expertise in the field in Gaza, we aim for this service to provide treatment and needed support to families and  children with Repetitive Traumatic Stress Disorder (RTSD) and a complete range of mental health disorders including Autism, Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, depression and anxiety will be treated by fully qualified mental health professionals.

Action

All our work in Palestine is organised and delivered by our already existing frontline team of medical and nursing education officers through collaboration with many local NGOs, Universities and other key stakeholders in Palestine.

Request for Help
  

Any financial support you can award us however small will be greatly appreciated and immediately go into service as emergency funds for both Gaza and the West Bank.

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