We Provide Dignified Mutual Aid & Educational Opportunities Everyday Throughout the Gaza Strip
We provide support to Palestinians and the movement towards our collective liberation. Since 2016, we have offered direct aid to Palestinians in Gaza through mutual aid organizing on the ground. We use 100% of your donations to support Palestinian families and purchase essential 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 to reject the reactive “othering” that increases our fragmentation. We are embracing the urgency to reject the normalization of genocide, injustice and oppression and we are doing it by liberating our lands and our minds. As we connect, resist 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, psycho-social services, Quran classes, 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. Right now, we provide daily urgent aid to our community in Gaza that is suffering under the escalated genocide and ongoing 17-year blockade.
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 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.
The Homeland Center for Women & 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 for women and children 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, open play 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you provide aid in Gaza?
We source all our aid from local retailers within the Gaza Strip. As a grassroots organization, we always prioritize supporting local businesses and purchasing local products. Prior to October 2023, we established the relationships and infrastructure needed to effectively continue supporting our community through the blockade and genocide.
How do you maintain your 100% donation policy?
We ensure our funds are kept separate based on their intended purpose. If you donate to our Gaza Relief Fund, you can trust that 100% of your contribution goes directly to Gaza. Similarly, if you donate to our fund for Palestinians displaced to Egypt, your entire donation will be used to support families in Egypt.
How do you have no admin fees?
The donation platform we use does not charge any fees, ensuring that we receive 100% of your donation directly to our account. Additionally, our team in the U.S. is made up entirely of volunteers, allowing us to keep overhead costs minimal. Any limited expenses we do have in the U.S. are covered by our volunteers or grants, ensuring that your entire donation goes where it’s needed most.
Are donations Zakat eligible?
Yes, all of funds (except funds collected for bail and legal support, which are kept separate) go to support Palestinian families who have been violently displaced, injured, orphaned, or in need. All recipients are eligible to receive Zakat.
Why are you registered as tax-exempt notfor profit if you are a grassroots movement of liberation?
While we understand that true liberation won’t come through traditional systems or NGOs, we aim to maximize the impact of the donations we receive. Achieving tax-exempt status allows us to direct all contributions toward our mission, rather than spending funds on taxes that could ultimately support systems we oppose. This ensures that every dollar goes directly to supporting our cause and community