Tents and makeshift shelters extend along sides of dirt roads and alleys. A line forms outside a small supermarket on a Tuesday afternoon where volunteers help families take turns going in and out of the store. Crowds of people rush out carrying bags of groceries. This Ramadan, with your support, UPA was able to distribute desperately needed food vouchers to the families of Gaza Camp in Jerash, Jordan.

Hiam, who lives in the camp, walked into the shop with her family and began to pull items off the shelf. She cares for her seven children and husband, a diabetic, who is unable to work. Life in Gaza Camp has its challenges. Poverty, unemployment, dilapidated shelters, poor infrastructure, and inadequate health care services have made life burdensome and painful for people like Hiam. She often finds herself having to decide between feeding her family or purchasing medication for her husband.

With your generosity, people like Hiam will not have to choose medicine over food. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to UPA today.

Gaza Camp was created in 1967 to house Palestinians primarily from Gaza who had fled to Jordan during the 1967 war. According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency [UNRWA], the camp has more than 29,000 residents and is the poorest of the ten recognized Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan.

Last year, during the holy month of Ramadan, your gifts supported 400 impoverished families in UPA’s areas of service. UPA’s field staff personally delivered food packages and distributed food vouchers to families who had no other means of putting food on their tables.

Help families in Gaza Camp put food on their tables by making a generous contribution to UPA during this holy month.

Your gift will touch the lives of many people like Hiam existing under the most difficult circumstances.

With gratitude,

Nisreen Abu Alshaikh

UPA Programs Coordinator, Jordan