What We Do
We provide support to Palestinians and the movement towards our collective liberation. We offer direct aid to Palestinians in Gaza and Egypt through mutual aid organizing on the ground. We use 100% of your donations to purchase items from within the Gaza Strip, including food, hygiene products, clean water, mattresses, clothing, and medication. Our team distributes this aid to our community with dignity in mind. We also host entertainment and educational events throughout the Gaza Strip and operate a community center called the Homeland Center for Women and Children in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp. Our volunteers in the “USA” organize awareness and fundraising events and take various actions in solidarity with Palestinians living under occupation and enduring genocide.
We are not putting a band-aid on suffering and oppression. We are digging to our roots, cutting out the toxic growth, and regrowing stronger than ever. The Palestinian people deserve the right to self-determination as demanded by the basic principle of equality. Palestinians should not be expected to depend on foreign aid that may or may not come, for survival.
Healing our Homeland initiates targeted and skillful interventions that systematically raise awareness, within Palestine and in our global community. We do this by providing resources and services to educate and elevate ourselves and our community. We are shining a light on the impacts of our collective and ongoing trauma and acting to take control of our narrative and stop the inheritance of oppression and shame. We are fulfilling our ethical duty of empowering the disempowered.
We are bringing this community movement of healing to reject the reactive “othering” that increases our fragmentation. We are embracing the urgency to reject oppression and we are doing it by healing from within. As we connect with each other and heal our minds, bodies, and souls we will break the shackles of oppression, God willing.
From Palestinian Women to Palestinian Families
We provide social and humanitarian support to Palestinian families through our team of volunteers and our Gaza-based community center. All our services are free of charge. We provide urgent aid, mental health services, yoga & movement, child development, and community/educational initiatives. Day to day, what we do is rooted in our Islamic values and customized to meet the needs of the communities we serve. We want to ensure our resources reach as far as possible, so we interact directly with the most vulnerable members of society to understand their needs so that we can support and uplift them the best we can.
As a women-led movement, we aim to initiate targeted programs on issues that impact women, such as, gender-based violence, period poverty, mental health, imperialism, and health concerns. We advocate for policies that uplift and support women’s rights.
We encourage and support leadership in women and girls so that they can impact their community. We offer regular community events and activities, in Gaza, Cairo and the “USA”, with the aim of moving us closer to creating a more beautiful and just world. With your support, we will get there.
Healing With Our Children
At Healing our Homeland, we know that our children are our future. We must support them now to create strong leaders for our homeland.
We create compassionate space for them to simply be children. We offer them opportunities to heal. We give them the knowledge and tools that will lead to change.
Our Homeland Center for Women and Children in the Gaza Strip is open 5 days a week and runs programming throughout the day. Every week we have 2 days where the children from our community are invited to freely play and explore the toys, crafts, games, and books at our center. We also host summer/winter camps at our center or at local football fields. We provide various emotional intelligence and enrichment activities for the children during their visit, such as Quran memorization, guided journaling, or group therapy.
We hope to ease the Palestinian mother’s worry about leaving her children, exacerbated by the constant threat of a merciless attack by the occupation forces, by creating a space for mother and child to be in community together. We aim to provide tools for growth and healing to continue at home. Our focus is on listening to and maintaining the dignity of the people of Palestine.
We are investing in the liberation of Palestine.
