Who we are
We are journalists. We refused to stop at reporting.
Our work began with documenting life in Gaza. That work puts a person in an unusual position: you come to know, in specific detail, which families have been missed, which camp has no water this week, which school could be repaired with a modest amount of money. You know it because you are standing there.
Project Hope for Palestine exists because that knowledge demanded more than a report. We are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, and we are deliberately small: volunteer-run, with a low overhead, and a short distance from a donor’s decision to a family’s door.
“We were documenting these communities long before we were funding them.”
Our work
Where our work goes
Seven communities receive our particular attention — each for a specific reason. Every program below is running right now, and each one began with a request from the community itself, which our teams were already on the ground to verify.
Orphans
The most vulnerable community in Gaza. We rehabilitate their living spaces and schools, and provide supplies, clothing, food and water.
Journalists
Sustaining working reporters and the families of those killed, coordinated with the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate. These are our colleagues.
Civil Defense
They reach people first, but with failing equipment. We repair their ambulances and reinforce camp shelters alongside their crews.
Artists
Singers and dabke groups. A people’s music and dance are part of their cultural legacy — and part of what is targeted.
Children’s Wellbeing
Music and play built into every distribution — aid a child remembers as part of a joyous day.
Injured & Ill Children
Care, shelter and family support for children wounded, bereaved, or living with conditions the genocide has created.
Hospitals & Medical Points
Supplying hospitals, and sustaining a medical point in Deir al-Balah.
The basics, every day
Alongside our seven focus programs, these distributions run continuously across Gaza.
Clean Water
Drinking-water convoys across central and southern Gaza.
Food
For families living without kitchens, income or supply.
Clothing
Seasonal campaigns, including winter clothes for children.
Shelter
Reinforcing and weatherproofing tents in the camps.
Schools
Rehabilitating buildings and equipping learning spaces.
Why this matters to us
The people who keep Gaza visible
Journalists in Gaza are doing work of enormous consequence — recording what happened and what is still happening. Sustaining them is essential if the truth is to keep getting out. When a journalist is killed, the record thins. When a journalist’s family is left without support, the profession becomes impossible to continue.
We run an ongoing program supporting working journalists and the families of journalists who have been killed, coordinated directly with the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate.
We are not an outside body assisting a profession. We are that profession, supporting itself.