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Nov 27, 2024 – Jan 23, 2025

As media attention focuses on the ceasefire agreement in Lebanon, we received this urgent message from the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) about a new round of misery in Gaza: winter rains and flooding. 

Please read the information below and consider a donation to MECA’s emergency Gaza relief efforts. 

You can donate

• Online, or
• Mail a check payable to MECA for “Gaza Winter Emergency” to:

Middle East Children’s Alliance
1101 8th Street, Suite 100
Berkeley, CA 94710

As always, thanks for your support.

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December 12, 2024

With your support, MECA and our partners are providing warmth to children and families in Gaza who are trying to survive another winter under genocide. Please take a minute to watch this video made by our staff in Gaza to show you how you are making a difference. Many thanks for giving children and families a gift of warmth.

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November 27, 2024

Dear Friends, 

We want to share with you this urgent message from Wafaa, MECA’s Aid Coordinator in Gaza:

Right now, thousands of families are sinking into the flooded ground along the seashore, struggling to stay safe amidst the rising waters.

Their tents, bedding, clothes—everything they owned—are being washed away by the water.

It’s winter in Gaza and that means rain and wind.  For children living in tents or houses damaged by bombs, the cold weather is adding to their suffering and threatening their fragile health.

In the face of this devastation, MECA partners and our volunteers in Gaza are working tirelessly through the night to relocate 1,000 families to a temporary camp and provide families with hot meals, blankets and mattresses. But the sheer scale of the need is overwhelming. Please give now for hot meals, warm clothes, and other urgent needs.

Donate for Emergency Winter Relief in Gaza

We know we don’t have to tell you how much the children in Gaza are suffering. They are terrified, hungry, and traumatized.  Many are injured and have lost their parents or their entire families.

Israeli bombing forced them from their homes a long time ago. Now the tents they were living in are being destroyed, along with any small sense of safety they still had, by heavy rains.

Your support has provided food, clean water and other necessities to families in Gaza every day since the genocide began more than a year ago. Now, as people without homes are displaced again by brutal weather, please make any contribution you can to meet their urgent needs. 

Thank you for your compassion and your solidarity,
All of us at MECA

Middle East Children’s Alliance
1101 8th Street, Suite 100
Berkeley, CA 94710