Anera and World Central Kitchen partner to provide emergency food assistance in Gaza
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, May 19, 2021 (WAFA) - Anera, the American Near East Refugee Aid agency, and World Central Kitchen (WCK), a nonprofit organization that uses the power of food to nourish communities and strengthen economies in times of crisis and beyond, are partnering to deliver emergency meals to the rising numbers of injured and displaced families in Gaza.
The UN now considers 58,000 Palestinian families in Gaza to be internally displaced persons, seeking shelter as a result of damage and destruction from escalating attacks in the past week. Thousands of those are displaced from over 1,100 homes that have been destroyed or suffered severe or major damage. In addition to displacement, power and water outages also make it difficult for non-displaced households to provide meals for their displaced relatives and neighbors.