Last August, I joined the Social Developmental Forum (SDF) as a teacher. I have been displaced from Gaza City, and I currently live in Deir Al-Balah. Since leaving Gaza in November, I have been overwhelmed by a sense of alienation; despite this estrangement of having to live in a place where I don’t belong, I […]
Internally Displaced People have been facing escalated crises, beyond the confines of their makeshift tents or “displacement centers”. Sanitation is a pressing issue in displacement that exacerbates the plights of IDPs; recurring overflowing sewage to streets, camps, and schools heavily affects areas such as Deir Al-Balah and Khan Younis, sheltering hundreds of thousands of displaced […]
Thirteen-year-old Ghazal Al-Sultan lives in a tent-like all Internally Displaced People in the Gaza Strip. Her life mirrors the monotonous and exhausting routine of displacement until she finally joined a Safe Learning Space, established by the Social Developmental Forum in the “Together For Palestine 3” camp in Deir Al-Balah. Ghazal was a seventh-grade student before […]
Standing a few meters away from the children’s courtyard at Abdul Rahman bin ‘Awf School in Gaza City, Karima stares at the youngsters as they play alongside her fellow volunteers. A single word flutters in her heart: hope—the very hope and belief that filled the hearts of her young peers at the “Together For Hope”. […]
Recently, “Together Towards Hope” youth network members, alongside the SDF’s team distributed over 1,000 school bags and stationery to students in Safe Learning Spaces across the middle area of the Gaza Strip. This intervention aims to support children’s engagement in the learning process. The distribution targeted SLSs in the “Return Camp” at the Palestinian Red […]
The Social Developmental Forum (SDF) has established a Safe Learning Space (SLS) in the “Together For Palestine 5” camp in Deir Al-Balah, middle Gaza. This SLS complements SDF’s efforts to establish multiple educational hubs to support displaced students within the project Youth Networks Collaborating Towards Enhanced Educational and Well-being Opportunities for Children and Adolescents, sponsored […]
A unique atmosphere amid a dark night—no lights, just a few colors flickering on a screen projected onto the side of a tent or a light fabric, where children’s eyes were glued. This screen created a sense of “cinema”, most importantly, a glimmer of hope, through which children “took a break”—one far away from war […]
The Social Developmental Forum (SDF) has inaugurated four Safe Learning Spaces (SLSs) at two locations in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, as part of its efforts to revitalize educational opportunities for hundreds of children in the Gaza Strip. This effort is part of the “Youth Networks Collaborating Towards Enhanced Educational and Well-being Opportunities for Children and […]
Within the prominent project “Youth Networks Collaborating Towards Enhanced Educational and Well-being Opportunities for Children and Adolescents“, funded by UNICEF, and implemented by the Social Developmental Forum (SDF), in collaboration with the Youth Advisory Panel (YAP), SDF has inaugurated two Safe Learning Spaces (SLSs) in Gaza City. The first space is located at Palestine School […]
Aiming to expand the network’s readiness and preparation for upcoming field activities, young leaders at the “Together For Hope” network conducted a series of “Peer Learning” workshops, during which they shared knowledge and skills they acquired in recent months with a group of their peers. Active network members, the project, and the T4H network’s coordinators […]
