Despite the ongoing war and critical challenges of displacement and siege, SDF’s Youth Network (SYN) is determined to lead impactful actions that foster youth engagement and resilience. Recently, SYN launched the “Girls’ Tent” initiative, targeting displaced girls and women in northern Gaza. This initiative is one of the thematic interventions under SDF’s national relief response […]
Ghadir Al-Wadiya: 8 Children with no source of breadwinning
Ghadir Al-Wadiya has been displaced to Deir Al-Balah for about three months, starting a new chapter of forcible displacements under evacuation orders, following the Israeli Occupational Forces (IOF) threats to invade Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, where she had taken shelter with her family due to the ongoing genocidal war. Ghadir is a 35-year-old […]
Aya Ashour: It wasn’t easy! But I decided not to give up!
It is not easy to maintain hope amidst such catastrophic conditions. Isn’t it? At least, I try. As young leaders, we are mobilizing ourselves to move ahead Together for Hope. I am Aya Ashour, a 23-year-old displaced from the northern Gaza Strip to the south. For instance, to Khan Younis. I am writing this piece […]
With disparate hope.. Ola Al-Mobayed: Our grandparents’ faith of displacement must not happen again
It is called “Al-Okhowa” displacement camp; a barre-waste land, where the sunbeams relentlessly burn everything. It is located in Al-Zawaida, near the Mediterranean Sea in the Middle Area of the Gaza Strip. A makeshift tent out there has become home to Ola Al-Mobayed, 27 years old, along with her husband and their two-year-old son. The […]
Aid relief parcels are his only source of food – Arafat Abu Asr
Arafat Rabah Youssef Abu Asr is a 60-year-old Palestinian elderly. He has been displaced for months, forcibly moving between shelters, tarpaulins, and scorching makeshift tents. He is originally from Jabalia in northern Gaza, where his journey of displacement began when he fled to Al Safatwi area, then to Al-Shifa Hospital in western Gaza. His family […]
Amany AbedAlrahman; A shelter tent can’t mend the suffering of displacement
A makeshift tent in a displacement center in Deir Al-Balah, in the Middle Area of the Gaza Strip. This is where Amany AbedAlrahman lives with her siblings after a dramatic journey of forcible displacement to different places since last November until it ended up in this tent upon invasion of Rafah city by the Israeli […]
Wassim Abu Daghim; persons with disabilities are prioritized in the SDF’s interventions
Waseem Ahmed Abu Daghim is a 26-year-old young person with a disability. He lives in Deir al-Balah City in the Middle Area of the Gaza Strip. As a result of an injury in an unfortunate traffic accident, he has been suffering from a physical disability for over ten years that left him with a permanent […]
“I have just recognized how powerful the social media is!” Dina says
Digitization is the language of the era, and this extends to our work in social advocacy. Alongside our efforts on the ground, we must also be active in the digital world to reach a larger audience and enable them to access our messages and services. It also allows them to reach us and participate in […]
Difficulties People with disabilities face in emergencies
“You have only 10 minutes to evacuate.. we will bomb the house.” 10 minutes to inform your wife and your family members of this shocking alarm, 10 minutes during which you will run to bring your children, and to fetch the most important properties and document you have: identity documents, money, clothes, and maybe have […]
It could have been called a training instead of a school, but the SDF wanted the experience to have a distinct impact!
We could have called it a training instead of a school, they could have been called them halls instead of classes, trainees instead of students, trainers instead of teachers, and project coordinator instead of school principal, we could wear whatever we wanted instead of standardizing a uniform with the name of our school written on […]










