Two years of genocide & horror
Your donation will help families in Gaza and other places where emergencies and conflict wreck havoc.
Help rush food and shelter to starving families with no homes to return to
For over two years now, Palestinians have lost their homes and faced violence and hunger. We urgently need to send supplies like nutritious food, clean water, and medicine into Gaza, where people are starving and children are freezing to death.
ActionAid, through our local staff and partners, is working around the clock – and we are reaching tens of thousands of people in dire need.
Your support
makes a difference
The epic devastation affects everyone. But it has been especially brutal for women and children – shockingly, they account for 72% of civilian deaths. Over half of Gaza’s population are children – so many will now require lifelong care because they’ve had to endure trauma, loss, injuries and amputations without anaesthesia. Countless children are now completely on their own having lost their mam and dad, their brothers and sisters.
Because of your support, we have reached over 650,879 people, providing cash, food, shelter, services and supports. We are working to challenge the decision by Israel to de-register us, both legally and diplomatically. We believe we must continue our work, however challenging the restrictions, to support communities devastated by genocide, displacement and starvation. Your support makes the world of difference.
ActionAid’s work in Gaza
ActionAid has continued to support communities in Gaza and the West Bank over the last two years of the most recent ongoing blockade of aid by the Israeli government. We work through local partners and have been able to provide cash transfers to them to support communities. With greater access, we could do much more.
Despite the recent deregistration of 37 NGOs, including ActionAid, our work has not stopped. We will face even greater restrictions, but we will continue to work through local partners.
ActionAid has been in Palestine since 1993
Our staff and partners are part of the local community. They know the dangers, the challenges – and the solutions.
But they urgently need help. The situation in Gaza continues to be unimaginable. People are devastated, traumatised, homeless. They are grieving lost loved ones. Malnutrition is everywhere.
Your donation will support our work in Gaza and other emergency responses
Meet Amani:
A mother’s plea from Gaza
Amani is a 29-year-old mother who has been displaced multiple times and is now staying in a tent with her family of five after they were displaced by the Israeli military campaign on Gaza. She has three children, aged 12, nine and six months, and says she struggles to access enough food to meet their needs. The family is surviving on nothing but bread and lentils and she is unable to find formula or baby food for her youngest.
‘My infant needs food; He needs formula and baby food, but I can’t provide it. This war took us decades back in time. We have nothing. The life we live now is unbearable’
Dr Aaliyah:
A doctor’s fight to protect the most vulnerable lives
Doctor Aaliyah is a 32-year-old doctor who specialises in maternity and infant healthcare. Before the war, the nursery ward would usually have a maximum of 10 or 11 babies receiving incubator care at a time, but currently, she says they are treating 70 babies.
‘We can rarely get baby formula for infants. Even breastfeeding mothers suffer. They don’t have enough food to produce milk and feed their babies.’
Can you support families in Gaza, and elsewhere in the world facing conflict and emergencies?
How your support will make a crucial difference
Donations to this appeal will reach the frontline of need quickly and will be put to work to improve – and even save – the lives of babies, children, mams and dads in Gaza and other countries where conflict and emergencies strike.
Your gift won’t just make a huge difference for people in Palestine – we’re also assisting the most-in-need families and refugees in the wider region and elsewhere in the world. People who are trapped in the hell of emergencies or conflict.
Please, make an urgent life-saving donation to help families in greatest need today.
In Gaza, ActionAid and our partners have:
- Reached over 80,000 people with food assistance, including over 11,000 with hot meals.
- Supported 20,000 people with Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services such as latrine facilities in Rafah.
- Provided health and maternity services to over 70,000 people, including reaching pregnant women through two mobile clinics.
- Provided protection services to over 4,000 women and children.
- Continued to campaign for an immediate and permanent ceasefire. Once the fighting stops, we will be ready to work with local women’s leadership groups to plan recovery and rebuilding.
Other ways to get involved
Give a monthly gift
A monthly gift is one of the most effective ways to support our work. Your ongoing contribution provides reliable funding that helps us plan ahead, respond quickly to urgent needs, and deliver lasting support to the communities we serve.
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We’re a women’s rights organisation campaigning in solidarity with women around the world, who are on the frontlines of the climate crisis, conflicts and emergencies.
There are practical ways you can be part of that today. Here you can access meaningful opportunities to take action through a trusted community creating change worldwide.
ActionAid tax giving
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If you have donated €250 or more in one year, your signature is worth – at a minimum – an extra €112. This is of no additional cost to you, but it can make a huge difference to the communities we support.
Donate for Gaza
Thousands of families in Gaza are struggling to access the essentials needed to survive. Food, clean water, healthcare, and safe shelter remain urgently needed as communities work to rebuild their lives.
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From birthdays and challenges to community events, every effort helps us continue our mission and expand our impact.
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