We are actively involved in building self-sustainable short and long term development projects in addition to providing relief and humanitarian assistance that foster self-reliance, self-directness and preserves human dignity for the sake of the disadvantaged groups in the Gaza Strip. By reading these stories, you will meet the beneficiaries of HCI programs and you will learn about the power ordinary people have to change their own lives. You will also learn about the power caring people have to help them to do so.
Gaza Strip
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 [...]
HCI Celebrates Arab Orphan Day with Sponsored Children
Child Sponsorship, Children, Egypt, Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Palestine, Sudan
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May 042010
Though Human Concern International works every day to improve the lives of orphans, one day is particularly crucial: Arab Orphan Day. Declared by the Arab league as a response to the many challenges faced by orphans, it falls on the first Friday of every April. It is designed to build awareness of the plight many [...]
Video: HCI presents the Child Sponsorship Program
Child Sponsorship, Children, Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Orphans, Palestine
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Mar 152010
HCI presents the Child Sponsorship Program; the case of Majd from Gaza HCI presents the Child Sponsorship Program; the case of Abdel Rahman and Bara’ Hashem from Lebanon Related Posts:Health and Sanitation in 2010, the HCI WayGaza Emergency AppealSowing Hope, Harvesting Opportunity: Gaza in the Holy Month of RamadanFrom Gaza City Comes the Story of [...]
HCI Helps Provide a Proper Eid Feast
Adahi, Egypt, Emergency and Transition, Gaza Strip, Iraq, Jordan & Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Seasonal Projects, Sudan
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Dec 162009
Understanding the culture and living conditions of the local communities we work with is part of HCI’s philosophy while serving these communities, especially at times such as Eid when great importance is placed on reviving and enjoying the traditional aspects of local culture. In addition, these traditions serve to strengthen community ties and embody important [...]
Sowing Hope, Harvesting Opportunity: Gaza in the Holy Month of Ramadan
Emergency and Transition, Gaza Strip, Palestine, Seasonal Projects
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Oct 142009
Every Palestinian woman and family have a story to tell, many of these stories reflect the profound sadness of Gaza’s own story; stories about the healing of wounds, about deprivation, about women struggling to support families and most of all about keeping hope alive. HCI is acutely aware of this nations suffering and follows the [...]
Ramadan 2009: HCI's Experiences around the Arab World
Egypt, Emergency and Transition, Gaza Strip, Iraq, Jordan & Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Seasonal Projects, Sudan, West Bank
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Oct 072009
For the Muslim world, the month of Ramadan is traditionally a time for inner reflection, devotion to God, self control, and fasting from sunrise to sunset. It is also a particularly joyous time when relatives and friends invite each other over to gather around a table and break the fast together-Iftar-and above all a time [...]
Sustainable Development in Gaza: One Step at a Time
Agriculture, Children, Emergency and Transition, Gaza Strip, Palestine, Woman, Youth
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Jul 222009
At a time when Nobel Peace Laureate, Mairead Maguire, and former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney are detained for attempting to provide humanitarian assistance to Gaza, at a time when toys, food and medical supplies are lingering elusively at the gates of the city, and the imposed blockade continues to exacerbate millions of lives, the residents of [...]
Celebrating the Arab Orphan Day
Child Sponsorship, Children, Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Orphans, Palestine, Sudan, West Bank
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Apr 012009
“My name is Abeer. I snuck into the pocket space under the stairs and settled on a worn rubber tire. I took into myself a rusty-bladed knife in a box of wood shavings, and watched the crystal bubbles in clear olive-oil jugs, and mourned. My fuzz-head torn-shorts brother sat cross-legged on the ground beside me, [...]
Bringing Warmth and Hope to Gaza’s Preschool Children
Children, Emergency and Transition, Gaza Strip, Housing and Infrastructure, Kindergarten, Palestine
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Mar 242009
In post-war Gaza, one can easily observe the aftermath: displacement and homelessness are prevalent; poverty is visible; unemployment is raging; malnutrition among children is rampant; trauma and grief are widespread; and lost livelihoods are common. For many families, everything they had worked for or achieved all their life has been destroyed. If such a reality [...]
Launching the Kindergarten Rehabilitation Program in Gaza
Children, Emergency and Transition, Gaza Strip, Housing and Infrastructure, Kindergarten, Palestine
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Mar 162009
HCI launched this week the Kindergarten Rehabilitation Program in Gaza and is now working towards reconstructing the physical damages incurred on the Al-Majed School and Kindergarten located in the Rimal neighbourhood in Gaza City. The Al-Majed school and Kindergarten was established in 1972 under the name Hashim’s Gaza, and renamed the “Two Sisters” Kindergarten in [...]
