PROTECT CHILDREN IN CONFLICT. GIVE SHELTER.
Children are disproportionately affected in conflict situations. Your support can provide the protection, stability, and hope shelter brings.
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Your contribution can make a life-saving difference. Help us bring relief to those in urgent need.
Thank you for your compassion and generosity.
SUPPORT CHILDREN IN CONFLICT
Children are especially vulnerable in conflict. As they face displacement, violence, and trauma, shelter is crucial to their survival and well-being. ShelterBox responds to humanitarian needs where they are greatest. We are committed to ensuring that children have access to secure shelter where they can find refuge, stability, and hope amidst the turmoil of conflict.
We need your help to provide emergency shelter and essential items for children left homeless in Gaza. Our ShelterBox response team is on the ground in Egypt, collaborating with partners like Rotary and local organization MAP to expedite aid delivery to Gaza. With your support, we aim to provide emergency shelter and crucial supplies such as tarps, rope, and tape, enabling families to make urgent repairs to damaged homes and shielding them from the elements. Blankets, mattresses, pillows, and floor mats will also be distributed to keep people warm. We also plan to distribute washing sets, water carriers, and kitchen sets to help stop the spread of diseases.
Please support our mission to provide critical shelter for children displaced in Gaza and around the world. Together, we can make a tangible difference—one family, one child at a time.
THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF SHELTER
Moh’s remarkable yet heart-wrenching journey—a story that epitomizes the transformative power of shelter assistance. Growing up in Gaza, Moh experienced the trauma of losing his home multiple times due to war. Forced to flee during heavy bombing in 2014, his family found refuge in a school-turned-shelter where they received a ShelterBox tent. In this makeshift home, they found some sense of normalcy amidst chaos. However, many families in Gaza today lack even this basic form of shelter, exposing them to further danger and uncertainty amidst recent escalations of violence.
As Moh reflects on his own experience, he is deeply saddened by the thought of so many families, including his own relatives, enduring the same hardships he once faced. Uncertain about his family’s future, Moh emphasizes the necessity of providing shelter to those in need.
No individual should be deprived of their fundamental human right. Shelter is imperative during emergencies.
Moh was awarded the Rotary Peace Fellowship and moved to the USA in 2017. Henow lives in Evanston, Illinois, where he serves as a program officer supporting the Peace Centers program and Peace Fellows. He’s also a member of ELRC and the Evanston Lighthouse Rotary Club.
Today, Moh stands as a testament to the profound impact of your support. From an internally displaced child to a scholar to a young man devoting his profession to the advancement of peace at Rotary International, Moh’s journey embodies the transformative potential of shelter assistance. His story serves as a poignant reminder of how a helping hand in times of vulnerability can alter the course of one’s life forever.
As conflict once again grips Gaza, displacing 1.9 million people, children are the ones who suffer the most. With your support, we can provide emergency shelter to families in need, offering a lifeline to children displaced by conflict. Your donation will provide tents, mattresses, blankets, and other essentials, giving them a safe space to rest and heal amidst the chaos.
Together, we can make a difference in the lives of innocent children who have been impacted by conflict in Gaza. Help provide them with the safety and security they deserve.
WE ARE WORKING TO SUPPORT FAMILIES IN GAZA
Our ShelterBox response team is on the ground in Egypt, collaborating with partners like Rotary and local organization, MAP, to expedite aid delivery into Gaza. We are continuing to scale up our response to be able to provide thousands of tents to people uprooted from their homes and left without shelter. It’s likely that people will need tents for upwards of one year. ShelterBox is ensuring the procurement of long-lasting tents, as well as tarps so people can make damaged buildings watertight, and other essential household items to the most vulnerable people in Gaza.
Our aid is on the move, and nearly ready to join the convoy of aid trucks waiting to enter Gaza. We have also placed an order for additional tents and have plans to secure even more. ShelterBox is using two separate aid routes into Gaza, and we expect the first of it to arrive in Rafah in the coming weeks.
It’s crucial that aid waiting at the border crossings is allowed through, but we continue to see heavy restrictions on the amount of aid being allowed into Gaza. Gaza is one of the most dangerous places in the world. For the people who live there and are not allowed to leave, and for the aid workers trying to get lifesaving aid to people who need it.
With your unwavering support, we can offer them security and stability in a time of despair and uncertainty. Thank you for enabling ShelterBox to do lifesaving work. You make this humanitarian relief work possible.
