Children Empowerment
95% of Palestinian children suffer from mental health problems, including depression, trauma and emotional distress (Save the Children)
The psychological toll is a catastrophe. 95% of Palestinian children now suffer from mental health problems, including depression and profound emotional distress. Many exhibit symptoms of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD): emotional dysregulation, hypervigilance, an inability to form relationships, and a shattered sense of self. They wake up screaming from nightmares. They withdraw into silence. They are losing their ability to feel safe, to trust, to be children simply.
Nightmares. Silence. Invisible wounds. We go where the children are.
Mental Health: Healing Invisible Wounds in the West Bank
War leaves scars deeper than bullets. Children wake up screaming from nightmares and disorders. Mothers collapse under grief and trauma. We offer:
Immediate Trauma Therapy: We offer art, play, and guided counselling to offer children a chance to heal. Our sessions are designed carefully to help children express emotions and to allow a natural healing process through engagement and feedback. We provide psychological first aid to families collapsing under the weight of grief and shock.
Safe Spaces in a World of Danger: We transport children from high-risk areas to secure centres where they can find structured activities and education sessions to allow healthy healing.
Family-Centred Healing: Our teams make home visits, providing tailored therapy and parenting support so mental repair can begin within the family unit.
The crisis has expanded beyond mental wounds. Since October 2023, as military operations intensified, we have also been working intensively to provide basic survival needs, milk, water, bread, and clothes, because a child cannot begin to heal when they are hungry or cold.
A Future Beyond Survival
We have a bold vision to evolve into a full-spectrum care collective to establish long-term counselling centres, expand creative workshops where children can reclaim joy, and build a support network for families who have lost everything. But we cannot do it without you.
The systematic destruction of childhood is happening now. The trauma is deepening every day. Our team is ready for a long-term impact. They are professionals embedded in their own communities, uniquely positioned to deliver help safely and without delay. But our resources are stretched to the breaking point against a crisis of this scale.
This is not a program for tomorrow; it is needed today. Hunger, despair, and exhaustion do not pause, and neither can we. Your urgent support can be the reason an intervention reaches those who need it most, right now.