Please Help Sponsor A Child In Palestine

Palestine Children's Relief Fund

"In response to the deepening economic and social crisis in Palestine, the PCRF launched a new program in the first half of 2002 to provide humanitarian assistance to needy children with disabilities, whose families are too poor to provide them the medicine or care that they need. There are currently thousands of sick and injured Arab children in the Middle East suffering from mental or physical handicaps and who are unable to receive the necessary care they need to function normally in society. With the current deterioration of the economic and social situation in Palestine, it has become more and more difficult for poor families to provide these children with the medical care that they badly need. The PCRF’s 'Child Sponsorship Program' is designed to provide these sick and injured children support by matching them with donors and sponsors who will help cover the costs of such humanitarian things as medication, therapy, and schooling."

Palestine Children's Relief Fund Child Sponsorship

United Palestinian Appeal Child Sponsorship Program

In 1986, UPA began its Child Sponsorship program to provide humanitarian assistance to disadvantaged children in the Palestinian Territories and refugee camps in Lebanon. Over the past 2 decades, UPA's Sponsorship Program has provided financial support to over 1,400 children.

United Palestinian Appeal Child Sponsorship Program

Palestine Children's Welfare Fund

The Palestine Children's Welfare Fund is currently reorganizing. Visit their Facebook page: Palestine Children's Welfare Fund

Save The Children: West Bank and Gaza Strip Relief

According to Save The Children's website:

"Save the Children is one of the largest U.S. nongovernmental organizations working in the West Bank and Gaza addressing the immediate humanitarian and long-term development needs of children and adults. With over 30 years of experience on the ground, Save the Children is committed to building the capacity of and empowering our local partners to design, implement, sustain and monitor local development programs over the long term. Today, nearly half of our programs in the region are implemented through local partners in all of the major cities and surrounding villages of the West Bank and throughout northern and southern Gaza. With offices in Nablus, Halhoul, Ramallah, Gaza City and Jerusalem, our staff makes every effort to conduct programs even during the worst fighting, travel restrictions and blockades....

"Individual child sponsors have the opportunity to choose a child (by region, country, gender and/or age) and to communicate with him or her if you so desire."

Save The Children: West Bank and Gaza Strip Relief

Islamic Relief in Palestine

Islamic Relief's office in Palestine launched its orphans welfare programme in early 1999, to provide assistance to Palestinian orphans and their families.

Guardians receive four payments a year to cover the orphan's basic needs, such as food, clothing, housing needs, and health and education expenses. Islamic Relief also takes care of their medical needs and organises summer camps.

Islamic Relief Orphans Welfare Program
Islamic Relief: What We Do / Orphans and Welfare

Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation Child Sponsorship

HCEF's Child Sponsorship Program links a sponsor in the West with a student in the Holy Land. Sponsorships foster unity in Christ among Arab and Western Christians and help Holy Land Christian schools continue to provide quality Christian education in difficult economic times.

HCEF Child Sponsorship

Interpal Child Sponsorship Program

Interpal’s one-to-one Sponsorship Programme aims to provide essential aid, as well as moral support to the most vulnerable in Palestinian society. A small monthly income is provided to around 6,700 Palestinian orphans, 800 needy children, and 75 poor families.

Interpal Child Sponsorship

Photo credits: Photos courtesy Ben Scribner, International Solidarity Movement