This year, our donors made possible something extraordinary: a working humanitarian operation, run by Gazans, reaching tens of thousands of displaced families across the Gaza Strip.
Every dollar we received was reflected on the ground — in food parcels delivered, in water wells drilled, in winter blankets distributed, in clinics running, in classrooms open. Every disbursement corresponded to a verified bank transfer, a signed agreement with a local executor in Gaza, and a defined deliverable. None of it would have happened without you.
A year in numbers
Since launching in May 2024, the Gaza Palestinian American Association has disbursed $2,350,946 in direct humanitarian aid across 53 projects in the Gaza Strip. The work has spanned every category of need — food, water, shelter, clothing, healthcare, education, and community programs:
- Food & Meals — 20 projects, $1,034,335 (44% of total)
- Winter Clothing & Blankets — 6 projects, $490,500 (21%)
- Water & Sanitation — 12 projects, $331,154 (14%)
- Shelter & Displacement — 4 projects, $297,760 (13%)
- Education — 3 projects, $75,690
- Medical & Health — 6 projects, $70,954
- Religious & Community — 1 project, $27,000
- Energy & Solar — 1 project, $23,553
Geographically, our work reached families across the entire Strip — Al-Shati Camp, Khan Younis and Al-Mawasi, Deir Al-Balah, the Darussalam Camp, Gaza City, Northern Gaza, Al-Qarara, and the Al-Wafaa Camp. The full list of projects, with footage and updates from the field, lives on our Projects page.
What your support actually did
It is one thing to read a number. It is another to know that the same number, broken down differently, is hot meals delivered to camps during Ramadan; fresh bread coming out of an oven at Al-Mawasi every morning; a working well restoring drinking water to families in Khan Younis; warm jackets handed to children just before the cold set in; a makeshift school keeping kids in classrooms when no school in Gaza is left intact; a dental clinic seeing patients in a tent when none of Gaza’s hospitals could.
None of this is abstract. None of it sat in overhead. It was directly delivered.
Together, we bring mercy, comfort, and hope — for Gazans, by Gazans.
Looking ahead
The need in Gaza is not over. As long as displaced families remain in tents, as long as schools are damaged, as long as clean water is hard to come by, we will continue to do this work — and to do it with the same standard: every dollar traceable, every project documented, every partner under a signed agreement.
If you’d like to keep being part of that work, you can give again here, or pass this page along to someone in your community.
From every family we have served and every volunteer who has carried this work on the ground — thank you.
