A Future Beyond the Rubble
Double your donation

Between the 2nd and 9th December, every gift will be doubled through the Big Give. That means your £20 becomes £40 — your £100 becomes £200 — all helping rebuild lives in Gaza and the West Bank.

Across Gaza, families are returning to what’s left of their homes — shattered walls, broken classrooms, empty streets. In the West Bank, the pressure of daily occupation grows heavier by the day.

This Christmas, we’re asking you to stand with them — to help rebuild a future beyond the rubble.

The reality

In Gaza today:

• one million children are acutely traumatised;
• 95% of schools are destroyed or badly damaged;
• most children have had no education for two years.

In the West Bank:

• more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed since 23rd October 2023, and children are growing up under the constant weight of military occupation;
• these numbers are devastating — but behind every statistic is a child with a name, a face, and a story waiting to be reclaimed.

What your gift will support

Your donation to our 2025 Christmas Appeal will help our Palestinian partners rebuild lives, restore learning and renew hope.

1. Healing trauma

Our partner DSPR Gaza (Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees) is providing specialised trauma therapy for children and their parents. Across Gaza, trained counsellors are helping families talk, draw and play again — slowly stitching back the threads of normal life.

“Children in Gaza do not suffer from post-traumatic stress — because the trauma never ends. Our work is to help them live, learn and dream again, even in the midst of it.” DSPR Gaza staff member

2. Education in the ruins: Tent-schools

With so many schools destroyed, education has moved to tents. In Gaza City and Central Gaza, teachers are running makeshift classrooms where children can read, write, play and rediscover routine.

Your support will help pay for school tents, learning materials and stipends for teachers who refuse to give up on their pupils.

“When children arrive in the morning, they smile. For a few hours, they can be children again.” Tent-school teacher, Gaza

3. Beautiful Resistance in Bethlehem

In Aida Refugee Camp, our long-time partner Alrowwad Cultural and Arts Society offers young people a different kind of resistance — through dance, music, drama, photography and film.

Their ‘Beautiful Resistance’ programme helps children turn trauma into creativity, and fear into expression.

“We teach children that beauty is a form of resistance — that art can be their language of freedom.” Dr Abdelfattah Abusrour, Alrowwad Founder

Please pledge now. Thank you.