How Social Enterprises Aid Gaza
Where the situation is dire, small impact-driven enterprises are uniquely placed to have an outsized impact on local communities. In Gaza, many of these grassroot efforts are popping up, with our market building partner Build Palestine seeking to support them and making them sustainable.
Pioneers Post writer David Lyons zoomed in on Colors for Gaza and the Gaza Education Hub, two enterprises that received support recently through fundraising efforts coordinated by BuildPalestine.
BuildPalestine has supported a total of four community initiatives over the past six months through its Nourishing Hope in Gaza programme. The programme identifies and verifies existing community initiatives which are running crowdfunding campaigns, then amplifies the fundraising efforts with the aim of raising US$5,000- $10,000 for each one. The need is high - when BuildPalestine launched the Nourishing Hope in Gaza programme they expected five to 10 applications. In fact, they received 131 applications in just 10 days.
Future programs, including the Falafel Theory, aim to largen the scope and to maximize the reach of the efforts of BuildPalestine. This new program aims to train 1,300 Palestinian changemakers in one year to design and to scale community solutions to local challenges.