MECA's team and partners in Gaza are procuring food and hygiene supplies from stores, warehouses, factories, and farmers and delivering them to displaced families. MECA’s network of grassroots community organizations throughout Gaza is able to reach displaced families who are with friends, relatives, neighbors, and in informal shelters like community centers and cafes.

To date we have delivered:
- 263,699 food parcels with essential food staples and fresh produce. Each parcel can feed a family in Gaza for two to three weeks.
- 33,560 hygiene kits with soap, shampoo, wet wipes, toilet paper, diapers (as needed), and women's sanitary supplies
- 655,296 meals provided through Ready to Eat kits donated by our partner World Central Kitchen

In partnership with the World Central Kitchen, MECA is setting up and running community kitchens in Gaza to provide hot meals to displaced families. We have four kitchens in southern Gaza.

These kitchens provide more than 10,000 hot meals to families each and every day. The hot meals are a source of sustenance and comfort during this difficult time.

We have also provided 3,180 hot meals for families in northern Gaza. Due to Israeli restrictions on sending aid to northern Gaza, we have not been able to set up a kitchen that provides daily meals but will do this as soon as we can.

MECA and our partners have:
- distributed 3,033,656 gallons of clean drinking water to displaced families from solar powered water purification units or water bottles
- provided millions more gallons of clean water provided to families sheltering at UN schools where we have installed water purification units
- installed or upgraded 10 water purification units powered by solar energy in Mawasi, Khan Younis, and Deir El-Balah that provide 19,000 gallons of water daily for displaced families.

"When we play during the session we forget the terrifying scenes, we want to play and enjoy our lives." - one of the children participating in psychosocial sessions in a shelter

In this emergency situation with the bombs still falling, we are unable to organize long-term mental health programs. But six of our local partners are providing psychosocial support to displaced children in shelters through group games and activities with a special emphasis on children with disabilities. Their trained staff are working in informal shelters and camps.

MECA partners have also distributed 4,000 toys and coloring books to children in Gaza, including for injured children being treated at one of our partner hospitals, and 1000 sets of clothing for children.

MECA is supporting a clinic that provides free services to families in Mawasi, Khan Younis and two clinics that treat malnutrition in children under five in southern Gaza.

At the start of the attack, MECA provided funds to three hospitals in Gaza to purchase emergency supplies of fuel for their generators to ensure they can continue treating patients for an additional month after electricity was cut.

We've also provided a grant to one hospital to purchase additional medicine and medical supplies needed for the huge influx of injured patients.

In an effort to prevent the spread of disease, we've initiated garbage collection projects with two of our partners. Using donkey carts, we collect garbage to take to the dump and also organize regular volunteer clean-up efforts.

As the first rains hit Gaza in mid-November, MECA partners quickly sprang to action distributing plastic sheeting to cover broken windows, leaking roofs, and cover makeshift shelters for people outdoors.

We distributed
-980 large plastic sheets
-4980 blankets
-18,000 sets of warm clothes for children