Support to and from Refugees
Activists take part in a June 2019 Equality March in central Kyiv. (REUTERS/Gleb Garanich) A few weeks ago, MECA Events Coordinator Penny Rosenwasser told me that her friends Luba Yusim and Sophia Sobko [...]
World Water Day 2022
Biddun mai, fish heyya An Arabic saying for a universal truth: "Without water, there is no life." Dear Friend, Hello from Gaza. I’m the MECA Director of Gaza Projects and people know me as Dr. [...]
Gaza Diaries: Education & Hope
Meeting with some of the scholarship recipients in Gaza Education is not lifesaving in the same way as food parcels for families living in poverty or clean water for children to drink but [...]
PaliRoots Meal Program, Women’s Empowerment in Gaza, Aid Updates & More: MECA News Winter 2022
We're very pleased to send you an electronic version of our most recent printed newsletter. We hope you'll take a few minutes to see all that we are accomplishing together in Palestine and Lebanon. You [...]
Asma’, Medical Student
Asma' with her fellow medical students Every time I receive a letter from you, I go running to my mother to share with her the news of getting the scholarship! You have no [...]
Happy International Women’s Day from Palestine
I am writing to you from Gaza where women are a mainstay in the Palestinian struggle against Israeli occupation, siege, and apartheid. Women are also central to all the work MECA and our partners accomplish [...]
Women’s Urban Agriculture Initiatives in Gaza
MECA recently began an exciting partnership with the Gaza Urban and Peri-Urban Agricultural Platform (GUPAP) to support women “agripreneurs” whose lives and income were particularly impacted by the Israeli bombardment of Gaza in May 2021. [...]
Amnesty International’s Report on Israeli Apartheid
Yes, it is Apartheid. Palestinians, their allies, and the entire international solidarity movement have been clear and loud about this for a long time: This is Apartheid! This is the continuous ethnic cleansing of Palestinians [...]
Gaza Diaries: Stories from a Normal Workday in an Un-Normal Place
Me visiting one of the schools with a water purification and desalination unit built through MECA's Maia Project Hey again, this Ghada Mansi, the Maia Project Coordinator. Part of my job includes conducting [...]
Your gift will be doubled to “Teach Palestine”
2019 Teach Palestine delegation in Palestine with youth and staff at Madaa Creative Center in Silwan, East Jerusalem. (Alvin Rosales) “As much as I tried to assimilate at my high school, I was [...]