MECA’s staff, partners and volunteers are working as hard as ever. They are glad to be working in relative safety, with the increased amount of aid. But that is still not enough. Very few people have homes or belongings to go back to. Many were already near starvation. We are shifting our work as hundreds of thousands of displaced people return to where they were living before the genocide. We are moving the latrines, the Maia water units, the kitchens, and the clinics, and getting necessities to people wherever they are.

We continue to grieve the people we lost, and we are so grateful for those who survived to support the survival of so many. Many thanks for your support and your solidarity.

MECA’s work in Gaza has shifted and expanded significantly since the temporary ceasefire began and this page provides an ongoing updates about that work.  If you would like to know more about the work our partners and staff in Gaza did every day for the previous 15 months, please go to this page.

Food & Hot Meals

MECA’s three solar-powered community kitchens that were almost completely out of food before the ceasefire are now cooking at least 10,000 meals a day. We opened a fourth kitchen - our first in northern Gaza! - that cooks another 3,500 meals a day. Local women are baking fresh bread at one kitchen.

MECA’s team distributed 48,200 boxes of fresh fruit and vegetables to families in northern, central, and southern Gaza.

We have also provided 81,218 food parcels with staples like rice, lentils, canned tuna and meat and more!

Safe, clean drinking water

On the first day of the ceasefire, MECA installed a new “Maia” purification and desalination unit installed in a hospital in Gaza City that also brings clean drinking water to benefit the families in the neighborhood.

MECA operates twelve other Maia units that provide 30,000 gallons of clean water to families in the south and north every day.

We also do daily distributions of water from trucks to families in in the north and south, including for the huge number of families returning to northern Gaza.

Additional aid

MECA and our partners have also distributed 36,012 hygiene kits, 39,880 blankets, and 3,590 mattresses, 32,984 packs of diapers for children and people with disabilities, milk, and more.