Tamer is 33 years old and lives in Al-Mansheya, Beit Lahiya, in Northern Gaza. He is unable to find full-time employment and is always on the look-out for temporary jobs to support his family of five. His eldest child Samer is 9, and his youngest Jana is 2 years old. Tamer’s family live in a…

Kamal is a 28-year-old resident of Beit Lahiya, in northern Gaza; he has epilepsy, which requires constant medication to manage and control the seizures. Kamal’s daily life is challenging as he struggles to support his family of seven. His wife is deaf, and two of their children have learning disabilities requiring specialized rehabilitation and treatment.…

The Rahman family live in Wavel Refugee Camp, in the Bekaa Region, Lebanon. Families living in Wavel Camp face harsh winters of severe storms and freezing temperatures. The Rahman family struggle to stay warm, and worry if it will rain or snow every day, as their shelter can hardly withstand the weather. Water will seep…

Fadi lives with his family in the village of Malalha, to the South of Gaza city. Classified as one of the poorest areas of the Gaza Strip, several hundred families live there in very basic conditions. Unemployment is high and the only available source of income is the collection and sale of scrap for a…

Abdul Muti is a 57 year-old fisherman who lives at the Al Shate’e Refugee Camp in Gaza City. He was unable to make a living or to provide for the other eight members of his family when his fishing boat was severely damaged in the Israeli military assault on Gaza in 2014. He was not…

In response to the devastating 50-day Israeli military assault on Gaza, Welfare Association has been providing urgent support to emergency services and to some of the worst affected families in Gaza. One of the hospitals we provided urgent assistance to was Makassed Hospital in East Jerusalem (the main referral hospital for Palestinians), which had opened…