Plant TWICE as many trees in Palestine for Giving Tuesday
? Thirteen-year-old Aysam was harvesting olives with his family on October 11 in the northern West Bank when Israeli soldiers heavily bombarded the area with tear gas. A month later, [...]
Your support and solidarity makes MECA’s work possible
Dear Friend, I don’t know what will be happening when this letter reaches you. As I write this, there is still enormous fear and suffering in Gaza, along with some [...]
Gaza Diaries: Distributing Tarps in Gaza
Today I visited two distribution points in Khan Younis. MECA received 10,000 tarps from UNICEF which we are distributing across 10 of the camps where we have been providing [...]
Gaza Diaries: Today I came to see what was left…
"The place where I’m standing now was once the site of a water desalination unit that MECA installed. It used to provide clean water to about 2,500 people [...]
Gaza Diaries: We are still here, on the ground, working among the rubble
I write to you as I move through the shattered streets of Gaza—between work meetings and aid distribution points—searching within myself for my sweetest memories in this city. But my [...]
Gaza Diaries: Tulip’s Story
By Eman Al-Astal On October 4th, at around 1:00 a.m., an Israeli airstrike bombed the home of Tulip, a ten-year-old Palestinian girl who was asleep in her family’s living [...]