The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is the largest primary healthcare provider operating in the Gaza Strip. Despite the Netanyahu government’s efforts to prevent the UNRWA from continuing its humanitarian work in Gaza, some 12,000 UNRWA staff are on the job, providing services to tens of thousands of families in this devastated area. Their work emphasizes healthcare, nutrition, education and humanitarian aid. The UNRWA staff are also still on the job, providing life-saving services and assistance to tens of thousands of families through an average of 11,000 medical consultations daily. In Gaza City, nearly 1 in 3 children is now malnourished. UNRWA provides nutritional support for many of these children and for nursing mothers. It provides shelter for about 80,000 forcibly displaced people daily, and provides water and solid waste collection services for 1.7 million people, about 60% of the Gaza population. And UNRWA remains one of the largest providers of emergency learning and psychosocial services across Gaza; it provides learning and recreational activities to more than 59,000 children in Gaza, over half of them girls. And against this background, certain members of the US Congress are actively working to block continuing American funding for UNRWA. So, please join us with the shared plate in sending support to UNRWA and provide continuing help and comfort to the survivors in this ongoing conflict.
Please donate generously to this worthy cause.
— Submitted by Gregg McKee