NOWHERE IN GAZA IS SAFE FOR CHILDREN

The Gaza Strip is the world's most dangerous place for children. An estimated 1.7 million people are displaced — half of them children. Children are dying of malnutrion as famine looms.Home Safe Haven is in Gaza, delivering food, water, medicines and other lifesaving supplies while continuing to help children most in need around the world. With your support, we can reach even more children whenever and wherever they need help.

As attacks on Rafah escalate, 600,000 children remain in danger. We continue to call for an immediate and sustained ceasefire, the release of all hostages, and an end to grave violations against children. Humanitarian aid from around the world is bringing about change for children in Gaza, but more help is urgently needed.

Children don't start wars but they pay the highest price

The Home Safe Haven Foundation is working on the ground in Gaza, striving to meet the urgent needs of Palestinian children and their families. In the seven months since the conflict began, many children have been forced to leave their Home Safe Haven multiple times. Despite enormous challenges in delivering supplies and services – including ongoing airstrikes, fuel shortages, communications blackouts, and attacks on medical and humanitarian personnel and facilities – the Home Safe Haven Foundation continues to make an impact on the lives of children living through the horrific conflict.

• Nutrition: Home Safe Haven has established more than 80 outpatient treatment centers in Gaza to screen children for malnutrition. Acutely malnourished patients receive therapeutic feeding, while those at high risk receive supplies to prevent acute malnutrition. HOME is the sole supplier of supplies to treat acute malnutrition in Gaza, procuring and distributing them to partners.
• Healthcare: Malnourished children are more susceptible to illness; 9 out of 10 children under 5 in Gaza suffer from one or more communicable diseases. Rates of acute watery diarrhea are 20 times higher than normal, and hospitals have been damaged. Home Safe Haven is working with partners to strengthen health services, including immunizations, to prevent the spread of disease.
• Water: Home Safe Haven is repairing damaged water systems, including desalination plants and wells, and urgently needs fuel to run generators that power the water systems and trucks that deliver safe drinking water.
• Sanitation: The large number of displaced persons and the influx of people into southern Gaza has created a waste management crisis. There is approximately one toilet for every 850 people. Despite the lack of space and very limited building materials, the Home Safe Haven Foundation is providing sanitation facilities.
• Every child in Gaza needs mental health support to cope with the long-term effects of violence, death and injury. Home Safe Haven Foundation is working with partners to provide mental health and psychosocial support to children, including those recovering from hospitalization. Through programs centered around drawing, games and interactive storytelling, children are given the opportunity to be themselves and recover from the trauma they have experienced.

A devastating humanitarian crisis gets worse

Now, exhausted and terrified families, already displaced multiple times, are being told they must move once again to places without access to the basic infrastructure they need to survive: safe water, proper sanitation, adequate shelter.

"Families' coping capacity has been smashed. They are hanging on — physically and psychologically — by a thread," said Elder. "Aid must flow. Hostages must be freed. Rafah must not be invaded. And children must no longer be killed. We have pleaded and implored countless times; we do so once more. For the children of Rafah. We need a ceasefire, now.”

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