Schools With Clean Drinking Water
REP FROM STUDENTS’ PARLIAMENT SPEAKING ABOUT CLEAN WATER.
In January 2008, the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) completed the first Maia Project installation at the UN Bureij Boys’ School in Gaza. With funding from the Alalusi Foundation, we purchased and installed a water purification and desalination unit and renovated the outdoor drinking fountains and faucets at the school.
STUDENTS DRINK CLEAN WATER WHILE A TEACHER AT AL-SHATI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SAYS, “WE USED TO BUY SOME WATER FOR THE CHILDREN AND NOW WE DON’T NEED TO DO THIS. I LOVE YOU MECA.” PHOTO BY MOHAMMED MAJDALAWI
Since the formal launching of the Maia Project in September 2009, MECA has installed units at additional UN schools and kindergartens throughout the Gaza Strip. Thanks to the generosity of MECA supporters and groups around the country who are organizing for the Maia Project, 68,000 children in Gaza now have access to clean drinking water! The UN schools are overcrowded and students come in shifts so each unit provides clean drinking water to all of these children.
List of Completed Maia Project Water Purification and Desalination Units, March 2016
| School Name | # Students |
| COMPLETED UN SCHOOLS | |
| Bureij Boys’ Elementary School | 1441 |
| Nusierat Co-Ed Elementary School | 1849 |
| New Gaza Boys’ Preparatory School | 1756 |
| Shati Co-Ed Elementary School C | 1148 |
| Jabalia Girls’ Preparatory School C | 2747 |
| Al-Falah Boys’ Preparatory School A &B | 2039 |
| Deir El-Balah Co-Ed Elementary School | 1728 |
| Jabalia Boys’ Preparatory School C | 1894 |
| Beit Hanoun Preparatory Boys’ School | 1806 |
| Bureij Co-Ed Elementary School B | 1786 |
| Maen Co-Ed Elementary School (Khan Younis) | 2009 |
| Beit Lahia Co-Ed Elementary School A | 2521 |
| Nuseirat Boys’ Elementary School A & E | 1997 |
| Khan Younis Boys’ Elementary School B | 970 |
| Khan Younis Co-Ed Elementary School D | 1570 |
| Jabalia Girls’ Elementary School A & B | 1900 |
| Maghazi Co-Ed Elementary School A and B | 1693 |
| Rafah Girls Preparatory School A | 1357 |
| Nuseirat Girls Preparatory School A | 2278 |
| Maghazi Preparatory Girls School A & B | 1129 |
| Hashem Boys Elementary School A and B | 1900 |
| Nuseirat Co-ed Elementary School A & B | 1800 |
| Jabalia Boys Preparatory School A and B | 2321 |
| Al-Shajaia Co-ed Elementary School A and B | 1914 |
| Bureij Preparatory Girls School | 1847 |
| Deir Al- Balah Preparatory Boys’ School | 2078 |
| Beit Hanoun Boys Elementary School A & B | 1300 |
| Jabalia Co-ed Elementary School A | 1400 |
| Jabalia Boys Elementary School A & F | 2400 |
| Al Darage Co-ed Elementary School A | 1650 |
| Beit Hanoun Co-ed Elementary School B | 900 |
| Halab Co-ed Elementary School A & B | 2900 |
| Al Zaytoon Co-ed Elementary School A & B | 1300 |
| Al Garara Co-ed Elementary School | 2000 |
| Khan Younis Girls Elementary School A & B | 2000 |
| Rehabilitation Center for the Visually Impaired (UN-run school) | 400 |
| Al-Shuka Preparatory Girls School | 1187 |
| Mughraka Primary Co-Ed School | 1400 |
| Khuzaa Co-ed Elementary School | 1200 |
|
COMPLETED KINDERGARTENS |
|
| New Maghazi Kindergarten, Maghazi Refugee Camp | 145 |
| Ghassan Kanafani Association’s Beit Hanoun Kindergarten | 450 |
| Indira Gandhi Kindergarten, Beit Lahia | 400 |
| Atfaluna Kindergarten, Bureij Refugee Camp | 195 |
| Al-Maghazi Community Rehabilitation Center Kindergarten, Maghazi Refugee Camp | 165 |
| Ghasan Kanafani Association’s Jabalia Refugee Camp Kindergarten | 210 |
| Nuseirat Kindergarten, Nuseirat Refugee Camp | 279 |
| Ghassan Kanafani Association’s Kindergarten, Jabalia Village | 90 |
| Tuyor Al-Jena Kindergarten, Um Al-Nasser, Rafah | 110 |
| Women’s Union Kindergarten, Khan Younis | 140 |
| Marah Kindergarten, Nuseirat Refugee Camp | 170 |
| Baraem Bisan Kindergarten, Rafah Refugee Camp | 120 |
| Ashbal Palestine Kindergarten, Al Zaitoun | 80 |
| Farah and Marah Kindergarten, Beit Lahia | 225 |
| Ashbal Khuzaa, Khuzaa Village | 90 |
| The Palestinian Home Kindergarten, Bureij Refugee Camp | 230 |
| Shema’ Al-Ala Kindergarten, Jabalia Refugee Camp | 420 |
| Abnaa Al-Qamar Kindergarten, Nuseirat Refugee Camp | 80 |
| Al-Sharooq Kindergarten, Maghazi Refugee Camp | 75 |
| An-Nour Model Kindergarten, Rafah Refugee Camp | 60 |
| Deir El-Balah Children’s Kindergarten | not available |
| Baraem Al-Quds Kindergarten, Zawaida | not available |
| Al-Fawares Kindergarten, Al Zaitoun | 145 |
| Sindibad Kindergarten, Ghabsan Village in Khan Younis | 450 |
| Atfal Khan Younis Kindergarten, Khan Younis Refugee Camp | 161 |
| Rachel Corrie Kindergarten, Rafah | not available |
|
Ghassan Kanafani Kindergarten
|
200
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Nasaem Kindergarten, Nuseirat
|
170
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Al-Osama Kindergarten
|
180 |
| Women’s Union Kindergarten | 150 |
| Sanabel Kindergarten, Nuseirat Refugee Camp | 260 |
| Ajial Kindergarten, Mawassi Khan Younis | 80 |
| TOTAL STUDENT BENEFICIARIES | 73,045 |
Map of Completed Maia Water Purification and Desalination Units
View Maia Project Water Units in a larger map
