Read our 2023 annual report
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Why Gaza? Following the eruption of violence in late 2023, Concern joined the Italian humanitarian organisation and our Alliance2015 partners CESVI to deliver crucial aid to displaced people in Gaza. A water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and food security project began in May 2024, with the aim of reaching as many people as possible in an extremely fragile context.
Displacement after displacement
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), roughly 90% of Gaza's population - numbering close to two million people - were forced to flee their homes when fighting broke out in October 2023, with thousands of people losing their lives and many thousands missing.
Livelihoods have been decimated, food systems have been crippled, more than 70% of crops have been destroyed, and health services - as well as hygiene services - have been brought to the brink of collapse.
Shelter has been monumentally difficult to come by for those who built their lives in Gaza, particularly during the worst of the shelling, with people forced to move location repeatedly since the current crisis erupted.
Latest achievements
Therapeutic food distribution
CESVI, with financial support from Concern, distributed ready-to-use therapeutic food to children at serious risk of malnutrition within 11 clinics in Gaza. As of February 2025, an estimated 1,200 children suffering from moderate or severe malnutrition received this food.
Rehabilitation of water and sanitation facilities
Hygiene promotion
How we're supporting people in Gaza
In Gaza, our partners CESVI are on the ground providing vital humanitarian aid - with Concern's support - to those affected by the conflict.
Our impact in 2023
people reached through our emergency response
people reached through our health interventions
people reached through our livelihoods programmes