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MECA Appeal for Gaza Winter Flooding

Nov 27, 2024

Online donations: $235 (Nov 27, 2024 – Dec 3, 2024)


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

You can donate

  • 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.

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.

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.

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


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