Projects
The Gaza Strip
MAP is currently investing over £860,000 in seven projects across the strip. Five are addressing ‘significant gaps in service provision’ (SGSP), one is focusing on ‘community based health development’ (CBHD) and one is providing ‘emergency relief’ (ER).
The projects include improving the environmental health conditions in Al Zarqa, where alongside ‘Palestine Save the Children Foundation’ (PSCF) MAP is providing mains sewage connections, road paving, health and hygiene education. Work promised by the PA but never fulfilled.
MAP is also working with local partners on health and hygiene in Al Zawaydeh, improving the nutritional status of marginalized children around Khan Younis and providing psychosocial support for Gazan children, parents and teachers.
The West Bank
There are six MAP active projects in the West Bank with 5 focused on CBHD and 1 on SGSP.
MAP is working with the Palestinians Medical Relief Society (PMRS) in training community health workers. In Yatta town and the surrounding villages MAP is partnering the ‘Ard El Atfal’ NGO in providing prenatal and postnatal care. MAP and the ‘Mothers’ School Society’ are funding a school programme in the Nablus district, while also contributing to the emergency health services of 3 villages west of Ramallah in partnership with the ‘Health Work Committees’.
In total MAP has invested over £263,000 on these projects to date.
Jerusalem
MAP, in partnership with the Church of the Redeemer, has invested over £18,500 in continuing to provide healthcare support to the elderly in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Lebanon
MAP is presently investing over £300,000 in 16 active projects in Lebanon.
In the aftermath of the destruction of Nahr El Bared camp MAP is working with ‘Nabaa – Development Action Without Border’ in post conflict evaluation.
Meanwhile in Bourj al Barajneh and Tyre-area refugee camps, MAP and the Women’s Health Organisation are running a project developing a health visitor programme for community nurses. MAP is also working with the Lebanese Red Cross in training paramedics in Sidon and the Bekaa, while running an awareness campaign on dental health in Beirut and throughout the south of the country.
Longer-term projects are focusing on business development services for women in Beirut, developing grass roots civil sector organisations throughout the country and providing start up grants for small businesses in Southern Lebanon, which is still recovering from the effects of the 2006 war.
Iraq/Syria
Following the basic needs assessment conducted in al-Waleed Camp, MAP continues to work towards proving emergency relief and healthcare services. MAP has organised regular visits to the camp from a doctor and a gynaecologist.
Britain
The British office is responsible for fund raising and advocacy work. Andrea Becker is head of advocacy for MAP. Recently, the organization has drawn attention as the beneficiary of Caryl Churchill's playlet Seven Jewish Children.
Read more about this topic: Medical Aid For Palestinians
Famous quotes containing the word projects:
“One of the things that is most striking about the young generation is that they never talk about their own futures, there are no futures for this generation, not any of them and so naturally they never think of them. It is very striking, they do not live in the present they just live, as well as they can, and they do not plan. It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for a future, none at all.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“But look what we have built ... low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace.... Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums.... Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.”
—Jane Jacobs (b. 1916)