Most of the world doesn’t have the benefit of picking up food from the corner store — they grow it themselves. A family’s plot of land has to provide for their nutritional and economic needs. HCI empowers farmers how to diversify viable crops, make the best use of the local growing season, and preserve local natural resources. The result is communities that can produce nutritious food for themselves in a sustainable way. However, distributing food is sometimes necessary, especially during times of crisis — but HCI believes in teaching people to fish, plant gardens and raise livestock for their household needs. This holistic approach not only ensures that families don’t go hungry, but also looks out for their health needs and long-term economic prospects.
Agriculture and Food
Most of the world doesn’t have the benefit of picking up food from the corner store — they grow it themselves. A family’s plot of land has to provide for their nutritional and economic needs. HCI increases communities’ knowledge of sound agricultural methods and empowers farmers on how to diversify viable crops, make the best [...]
On June the 1st, the Egyptian authorities exceptionally opened the Rafah border crossing in both directions, for humanitarian cases and aid, for an unspecified period of time. It is expected that an average of 750 people will cross daily. In addition, on the day of the opening, 13 electrical generators for the Al Quds hospital [...]
Empowering and Encouraging Landmine victims in the South of Lebanon: The Backyard Production Support Project
Life in the south of Lebanon is not easy. In a country all too often ravaged by war it has suffered the most. Located along the Lebanese-Israeli border, one of the most volatile on earth, its residents live a life of uncertainty. In 2006 the simmering tension once again became full scale war almost without [...]
Two jobs were created at the Al Mona center for hearing imparities & mental development in Tripoli the week that Yazan, a member of the fundraising team in Canada visited the HCI team in Lebanon. The center, a subsidiary of the Charity of the Islamic Women Society was where the first meal of HCI’s Farm [...]
Helping Hands for War-Affected Rural Families in Lebanon
Cultivation of land and farming are amongst the most basic of human activities. Although we take it for granted, self sufficiency in farming is vital for a community, especially in troubled regions. As well as providing a source of food, the agricultural sector is a major force in the local economy in remote rural areas [...]
Introducing the Farm to School Program in Lebanon
HCI launched this week its new project in Lebanon, the Farm to School program, with the objectives of improving the economic stability of low-income local small farmers in rural areas, providing jobs for vulnerable local women in food preparation, providing healthy meals for thousands of poor students, improving the nutritional health of poor school-aged children, [...]
Video: Livelihood Support for War-Affected Rural Families in Lebanon
The border village Al-Wazani, an underprivileged agricultural village in Southern Lebanon located directly on the Lebanese-Israeli border, was heavily affected by the July-August 2006 war between Lebanon and Israel. In addition to the total destruction of infrastructure, the loss of lives and an economy suffering badly from the recession that followed the war, livestock losses [...]
Livelihood Support for War-Affected Rural Families in Lebanon
The border village Al-Wazani, an underprivileged agricultural village in Southern Lebanon located directly on the Lebanese-Israeli border, was heavily affected by the July-August 2006 war between Lebanon and Israel. In addition to the total destruction of infrastructure, the loss of lives and an economy suffering badly from the recession that followed the war, livestock losses [...]
Support for the Neediest Palestinian Olive Farmers in the West Bank
In the West Bank, civilians are cut out from the rest of the world because of the Israeli siege without any supply or support; they are deprived from basic life elements and their rights to live normally, in addition to difficulties they face in receiving support from foreign aid agencies. This obliged many operating aid [...]
