Good Neighbors humanitarian response

HOPE FOR GAZA,
ACTION FOR CHANGE

Emergency Appeal
Every life saved counts.

Last Updated: 14 April 2024

What is the current situation in the Gaza Strip?

Despite periods of temporary calm, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza remains catastrophic. Families continue to endure displacement, hunger, trauma, and the collapse of basic services.

  • 2.1 million people continue to rely on emergency food assistance.

  • 1.4 million people need clean water and basic WASH services.

  • 1.45 million people require shelter support, with 1.5 million lacking essential household items.

  • 500,000 children under five and pregnant/lactating women need nutrition support.

  • Around 270,000 school-aged children need temporary learning spaces and psychosocial support.

The prolonged conflict continues to erode access to food, healthcare, clean water, and education. Families face rising protection risks, including increased gender-based violence in overcrowded shelters.

  • A temporary ceasefire is in place, with over 500,000 people returning to the north since 27 January 2025.
  • Thousands, including children, are living in damaged homes with limited access to food, water, and medical care.
  • Over one million children need mental health support, and gender-based violence is increasing due to prolonged distress.
  • 91% of the population is at risk of severe food insecurity (IPC phase 3), and 436,000 housing units have been destroyed or severely/partially damaged.​

Good Neighbors Humanitarian Response

Child Protection

Life-saving
and urgent needs

Sustainable
Reconstruction

Good Neighbors initiated an emergency response in September 2024 in collaboration with local partners.
Our intervention strategy includes child protection promotion through mental health and psychosocial support,
the distribution of life-saving essentials such as hygiene kits and hot meals, and sustainable reconstruction support after the crisis.

Good Neighbors Humanitarian Response

Child Protection

Life-saving
and urgent needs

Sustainable
Reconstruction

Good Neighbors initiated an emergency response in 2024

 in collaboration with local partners.
Our intervention strategy includes 
child protection promotion through
mental health and psychosocial support, the distribution of life-saving essentials such as hygiene kits and hot meals, and sustainable reconstruction
support after the crisis.

"The message is clear: the children need us now more than ever."

During the ceasefire, we saw hope. We believed the war would end. But today, we are suffering even more than before. There is no food. No water. No safety. Our children have nowhere to go,
" says Aya, a Psychosocial Support (PSS) facilitator.

Not only serving as a Good Neighbors facilitator inside Gaza, Aya is also a sister who recently lost her brother to an airstrike. Her second brother lies severely injured, fighting for his life with limited medical care in a collapsing health system.

And yet, every day Aya chooses to show up.
Every time she leads an art session with childrenevery time she watches them draw their feelings, paint their dreams, or smile even for a moment, she feels something stronger than loss.

"The impact of the PSS activities is bigger than words. It makes me happy to see children happy. To see them express what they cannot say."

Our Actions and Engagements

Urgent: Immediate Action Needed

Children express their feelings through art during a psychosocial support session.

Food Assistance

Supporting displaced families with nutritious hot meals and Suhour meal parcels, given the scarcity and unaffordability of food in Gaza.

Child Protection and Psychosocial Support

Providing structured group activities for children, including:
• art therapy
• stress-relief games
• emotional support sessions

These activities help children cope with trauma, regain a sense of normalcy, and rebuild hope.

Children assist their families as safe water arrives in their camp.

Safe Water Distribution

Delivering safe drinking water to displaced families through continuous water trucking in western Khan Younis and Al-Mawasi.

Emergency Hygiene Assistance

Providing hygiene kits to families with disabilities and internally displaced persons to help prevent disease outbreaks in overcrowded shelters.

A Youth Without Borders facilitator guides children through an art activity for emotional healing.

Cash Assistance

Distributing multi-purpose cash to the most vulnerable households so they can buy essential items such as food, medicine, and clean water based on their immediate needs.

 

Partnership With Local Organizations

Working closely with Youth Without Borders and other local partners to ensure aid reaches families quickly and safely, and to support community-based response systems.

230,000

7,164

Liters of safe water provided

Hot meals distributed

27,689

1,709

People received emergency

food assistance

People received hygiene

& dignity kits

2,000

235

Individuals reached with

WASH support

Households received

cash assistance

400

450

Children participated in

psychosocial healing

Families received Suhour 

meal parcels

400

400

Households received hot meals

under the Japan Platform project

Students enrolled in

structured learning groups

1,040

People received hygiene kits

7,528

People received 

nutritious hot meals

Standing in Solidarity

Good Neighbors is committed to standing by the people in the Gaza Strip, advocating for their rights,
and supporting international efforts to prioritize the protection of human rights and the well-being of all those affected by this humanitarian catastrophe.

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