Project Overview

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has damaged the prospects facing many children who will grow up in Palestine. Years of violence, military incursions, restriction on movement, and the demolition of homes and buildings have had a destructive effect on the opportunities available to Palestinian children.

Islamic Relief plans to improve the provision of preschool education by developing toy and book libraries in selected kindergartens in Palestine.

Project Background

Few kindergartens in the Palestinian Territories have suitable playing rooms and enough toys and books to stimulate the children. The current economic crisis has left many Palestinians without salaries, and many kindergartens have been forced to reduce fees to the very minimum.

As a result, most kindergartens have unofficially ended up as charities, where the fees do not even cover running costs.

Poverty is most pronounced in the refugee camps, where families struggle to provide their children with access to educational materials and recreational activities.

Through this project, Islamic Relief will extend its support to preschool children, and to create an environment suitable for learning.

Providing the kindergartens with these facilities will provide the children with educational, rich and beneficial activities which will help them to grow into balanced individuals.

Project Objectives

• To alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian preschool children;
• To provide the Palestinian children in disadvantaged areas with minimum requirement of educational and recreational facilities;
• To assist disadvantaged kindergartens by establishing equipped and furnished toys and books libraries for them;
• To assist the local educational organizations and institutes to provide quality service.

• Establish, equipping, and furnishing toys and books libraries for disadvantaged kindergartens in Gaza Strip and West Bank;
• Provide Palestinian children in disadvantaged areas with minimum requirement of educational and recreational facilities;
• Assist the Palestinian community to build a new generation of educated and psychologically stabled members.

60 kindergartens in total will benefit from this project, 30 in Gaza Strip and 30 in West Bank. Around 6,000 children attend these schools.