Welcome Waed Abbas, Palestine Projects Assistant
MECA is excited to welcome Waed Abbas to the MECA staff! Waed’s family is from the Old City of Jerusalem. She has years of experience in human rights, development, and translation and brings a passion [...]
Volunteer Corner: Nawal Tamimi
By Nawal Tamimi, Volunteer Coordinator As the Volunteer Coordinator for the Middle East Children’s Alliance, it always does my heart good to see people give their time to help the people of Palestine, especially since [...]
Refugee Women Earn Income with Traditional Foods
More than half a million refugee women from Syria are living in Lebanon with few ways to support themselves and their families. Lebanon allows refugees to work in only a few industries and requires special [...]
Visiting Schools in Gaza
Maintenance complete for this water purification unit and children are enjoying the clean water! Before the new school year began, I visited 75 schools and kindergartens throughout Gaza that have Maia Project units [...]
Maya Fulfilled Her Grandfather’s Dream and Her Own
Maya Odeh, received her nursing degree with the help of a MECA Scholarship from the Elly Jaensch Memorial Scholarship Fund. She says, “I wouldn’t be exaggerating if I said that I’ve witnessed my mother’s [...]
No child is too young to be targeted by Israel
As we watch in horror as children are brutalized by law enforcement at the U.S. border, Israeli authorities are likewise targeting more and more very young children for arrest. Last week Israeli soldiers raided the [...]
Fightback Against Censorship at the Jewish Community Center in San Francisco
Lucia Ippolito is a MECA volunteer and co-creator of the MECA tile mural at Shoruq Organization in Dheisheh Refugee Camp. Her work was recently selected and then censored by the JCC of San Francisco as [...]
Trip to the Homeland
Guest post from Mohamad Amin, a long-time supporter of MECA's work We just had a fabulous and historic trip to the Homeland in Palestine that has been in the making for almost 60 years, although [...]
Medicine for Gaza
Checking the medical shipment after it arrived in Gaza In 2013, the UN released a report predicting that Gaza will be unlivable by 2020. Sadly this is coming true. There is a great [...]