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Welfare Association Annual Review 2013-14 Welfare Association Annual Review 2013-14 www.welfareassociation.org.uk 1 Contents – 03 – Who We Are & What We Do – 04 – Report of the Trustees – 06 – Who We Supported – 17 – Welfare Association in Numbers Acknowledgements – 18 – Message from the Chairman – 19 – Legacies 2 Welfare Association Annual Review 2013–14 WHO WE ARE & WHAT WE DO Who We Are & What We Do Mission, objectives and activities The Welfare Association supports humanitarian and development projects for some of the most vulnerable Palestinian communities. Our work focuses on supporting Health: including maternal health, and empowering some of the most mental health, and supporting children impoverished families and the most with disabilities. marginalised sectors of society, with Our main objectives are the long term sustainable development Education: support for children with programmes where possible. In special educational needs, early advancement of education, response to the ongoing crisis in Syria childhood development and active the relief of sickness and the and now the impact of the destruction in learning programmes. protection and preservation Gaza, Welfare Association has increased Additional Sustainable Development: its humanitarian relief work. of health, and the relief of in particular support for livelihoods poverty for the benefit of Our projects are designed in the and income generation including field following needs assessments in food security initiatives, support for the inhabitants of Palestine, consultation with local communities fishing communities, microloans and Israel, Lebanon and Jordan and local partners, and subsequently rehabilitation of housing. discussed and approved by the trustees. (and in particular the Our programmes in Palestine and Emergency Humanitarian Relief: communities in the West Lebanon aim to provide support to e.g. provision of food, hygiene, & Bank and Gaza areas). the most marginalised and vulnerable blanket packs and children’s clothing communities. We work to support these to displaced families, shelter repairs, communities in the following areas: and water & sanitation projects. Board of Trustees: Baroness Tonge (Chairman); Mrs Julia Helou (Treasurer); Mrs Hanan Al-Afifi; Mr John McHugo; Ms Mona Mohtasseb; Ms Clare Short Director: Caroline Qutteneh www.welfareassociation.org.uk 3 Report of the Trustees The communities we work with have been increasingly affected by regional conflict and deteriorating political conditions which have exacerbated poverty. With the ongoing Syria Crisis there are more refugees in Lebanon than ever before. The continued siege on Gaza, the storm and buildings, including the main power on the existing host Palestinian refugee floods at the end of 2013, and the plant, water and sanitation systems. Over community there. Thousands of newly devastation following the Israeli military 20,000 homes have been destroyed or displaced families from Syria are now assault on Gaza in the summer of 2014 severely damaged, leaving more than living in cramped and totally inadequate have required continued and intensified 100,000 people homeless. In response to conditions in the UNRWA camps for humanitarian interventions. this latest humanitarian crisis, we have Palestinian refugees and in the unofficial The conflict in Gaza lasted 50 days been providing fuel and medical supplies gatherings1 in Lebanon. Most arrived with over 2,200 Palestinians killed, with little more than the clothes on their including over 500 children. More than The war in Syria has taken the backs in urgent need of shelter, food and 11,000 Palestinians were badly injured lives of almost 200,000 people clothing. Welfare Association has been and many face permanent disability. responding to these families’ urgent needs There is widespread destruction and and displaced more than with emergency projects in Saida, Tripoli, devastating damage to key infrastructure 3 million people. Beirut and in the Beqa’a Valley, providing distributions of food packs, hygiene kits to hospitals, food packs and hygiene kits and urgent shelter repairs. to thousands of displaced families. We In the midst of these incredibly difficult have also been arranging surgeries for the circumstances with multiple emergencies, seriously injured (complex surgeries that WA field staff and local partners remain cannot be completed in Gaza Hospitals) in focused on our programme objectives Makassed Hospital in East Jerusalem. and have continued working throughout, The war in Syria has taken the lives of adapting programmes to changing almost 200,000 people and displaced circumstances and meeting urgent needs more than 3 million people, with over 1.1 to support families in crisis. This has been million of these refugees seeking shelter in a huge strain on resources so we have Lebanon. This has put an incredible strain intensified our fundraising efforts in order on Lebanon as a whole and particularly to continue this work. 1An informal settlement of Palestinian refugees where UNRWA (the UN Agency responsible for Palestine refugees) 4 does not have a mandate to provide shelter, water or sanitation services. Welfare Association Annual Review 2013–14 REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES Where we work Territories occupied by Israel in June 1967 International Boundary Boundary of former Mandate Palestine Armistice Demarcation Line Town/City Official camp UMRWA Headquarters UNRWA Field Office Map provided courtesy of UNRWA. The boundaries and names shown on the maps do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations SYRIAN ARABIC REPUBLIC We would like to thank all of our supporters for their continued and generous contributions to the Welfare Association emergency appeals. Your commitment to our work and quick response to our appeals means aid reaches these families in crisis quickly and when most needed. Thank you for your help. WEST From 1st January – 31st December 2013 BANK Welfare Association raised over £1.3million. This income was raised from the general public, ECHO, the European Union, Big Lottery Fund and a number of trusts and foundations in the UK and overseas. The GAZA projects funded during 2013 include STRIP the Gaza emergency project supporting families flooded out of their homes, the ECHO emergency project supporting JORDAN Palestinians fleeing the conflict in Syria and now residing in very difficult conditions in Beirut, the new EU project to improve the living conditions of Palestinians in the Old City of Jerusalem and the first year of ISRAEL the Big Lottery Fund project empowering marginalised communities in south Lebanon. www.welfareassociation.org.uk 5 ACHIEVEMENTS IN OUR PROGRAMMES IN 2013 Who We Supported: Health Programmes Our health programmes throughout 2013 have increased awareness of and support for children with disabilities, women’s health, family health, and mental health. We have continued the Gaza Community-Based Rehabilitation (Gaza CBR) Programme and we have also been able to focus on environmental health activities in south Lebanon. Empower Marginalised families on low incomes will not need to Gaza CBR Programme Communities in South buy bottled water from shops. They will Within our well established Gaza CBR Lebanon also enable improved practices and safe programme we completed various In the new four-year project funded by the water long after project completion. All of projects across Gaza, providing critical Big Lottery Fund to Empower Marginalised the activities in this project will improve support for children with disabilities the lives of 10,274 families across three Communities in South Lebanon, social and their families. In 2013 we were able UNRWA Palestinian refugee camps (El workers have been receiving psychosocial to provide a range of services for 882 Buss, Rashidiyeh, and Burj el Shemali health training sessions which have children with disabilities throughout camps) and 2,970 families across nine included topics such as mental health, Gaza: 82 children from Bureij, Mughazi, informal gatherings near Tyre, (Shabriha, early childhood development, trauma and Mughraqa, Nuseirat and Deir Al Balah Wasta, Al Burghuliyeh, Itaniyeh, Kfar depression. located in the middle area of Gaza, 650 Badda, Jim Jim, Maashouk, Jal el Baher, children from Khan Younis and Rafah Following their training these social and Qasmieh), where Palestinians are and 150 children from Shejae’eya, Zeitun, workers were able to begin leading particularly marginalised, lack public Al Sabra and Al Sha’af in Gaza. A total community awareness-raising sessions services and suffer high poverty levels. of 4335 physiotherapy sessions were discussing women’s health issues. In the delivered to these children in their homes first two days they reached 138 women, in addition to 3612 occupational therapy who were keen to attend, and actively sessions, where mothers were trained participated in these discussions. In the to carry out the basic exercise routines gatherings where local water sources necessary to improve and maintain their need urgent improvement 36 community child’s mobility. 4316 psychosocial therapy caretakers have participated in high sessions have been delivered to ease some level water management training and of the combined psychosocial trauma mentoring, which has included regular and difficulties children with disabilities water monitoring, testing and treatment living in a conflict zone experience. techniques. These upgraded skills will 1389 medical follow-up sessions were improve the water so it is safe to drink and conducted. 6 Welfare Association
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