REACH Gaza – The 2014 Project Second Year Running
REACH Gaza aims to improve and strengthen the currently underdeveloped health-care system in Gaza, particularly when it comes to providing surgery for children in need of medical care. In addition to causing a chronic shortage of medical equipment and supplies in Gaza, the 6 year long siege on the Gaza Strip has prevented children and their families from travelling freely into the West Bank and abroad in order to receive the urgent care and treatment they need.
The REACH Gaza project will address each of these issues and work towards creating a more durable, efficient and sustainable healthcare system by carrying out the following tasks:
- Identifying every sick and injured child in the besieged Gaza Strip in need of specialised medical care through a team of ground staff who will form an intricate network of field offices throughout Gaza
- Creating a pioneering centralised database that will include each child’s medical condition and history
- Providing each child with the required treatment through sponsoring treatment locally, visiting international volunteer missions and sending children abroad for care.
$250,000 (£150,000) was raised in 2013 in support of the REACH Gaza project. 53% of these funds directly resulted in:
- The treatment of 630 children in Gaza
- Through the work of 18 volunteer international medical teams
- Caring for children in need of cardiac, orthopaedic and general medical treatment
The funds also allowed for the development of the first medical database in Gaza with 496 child cases registered.
The remaining funds from 2013 will be used to continue providing essential medical treatment to the children in Gaza, in addition to all the funds raised in 2014 from our 6th cycling challenge taking place in the US from Philadelphia to Washington DC on the 19th of September. With these two cycles we aim to support the REACH Gaza project up to the end of 2015; caring for over 1000 children in Gaza.
| Supporters | |||
| Name | Date | Amount | Comments |
| Lara El Saad | 09/01/2014 | $350.00 | Thank you for taking on this challenge to raise awareness!! Best of luck to you and your team! | Anonymous Friend | 08/13/2014 | $50.00 | Good luck! | Anonymous Friend | 08/13/2014 | $100.00 | Best wishes and I wish you and all the people in Gaza many blessings. AD | Mohammed Kassem | 08/13/2014 | $400.00 | Good Luck Brotha! | Anonymous Friend | 08/06/2014 | $300.00 | Congrats on reaching your goal Na2oul! All of us that love you are EXTREMELY proud of you and your efforts. Pedal on... | Halla Koudsi | 08/04/2014 | $100.00 | Ramzi Shehadeh | 08/03/2014 | $250.00 | i wish you the best of luck Nael. may god bless you for your noble efforts. | Edmond H | 08/03/2014 | $200.00 | Good initiative, enjoy the ride. Make sure you pedal real hard when you get to Baltimore! | AHMED MUNAF | 08/03/2014 | $300.00 | Ali Farhat | 08/02/2014 | $300.00 | Anonymous Friend | 08/02/2014 | $1,000.00 | A J | 08/01/2014 | $100.00 | Pradyut Pratap | 07/30/2014 | $300.00 | Dana Salloum | 07/29/2014 | $200.00 | Good Job Nael | Ali Hammoudi | 07/29/2014 | $100.00 | Good luck, and make sure you fly the Palestinian flag in front of the White House... and not to mention your: http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=117097 | Mohsen Nader Soltani | 07/29/2014 | $300.00 | Great cause! Good luck | Nader & Lama Paslar | 07/29/2014 | $300.00 | Good Luck! | R S | 07/29/2014 | $50.00 | Anonymous Friend | 07/29/2014 | $500.00 | Make catch ii | Nihal Ibrahim | 07/29/2014 | $500.00 | Mohamed Attalla | 07/28/2014 | $300.00 | Make catch. |
| Total | $6,000.00 | ||