The Wajd program completed the activities of the project “Improving the health status of the orphans of the 2014 Gaza assault – the second year”. This project is one of the Wajd program’s interventions, a program that was launched with principal funding from the Qatar Development Fund, and platinum sponsorship from the Bank of Palestine and the Haj Hashim A’atah Al-Shawa Fund.

The program seeks to empower 2,108 children and young people who lost their parents in the Israeli assault on Gaza in the summer of 2014, so that they can live in dignity, achieve their ambitions and become active members of their community.

In partnership with the Public Health Society (PHS) in Gaza, health checkups were conducted for 712 children to diagnose their general health and proceed with any required treatment or medicines. The project provided medicine, vitamins and supplements to around 351 children with various health problems.

Necessary surgery was also performed for cases that required such interventions. Twenty-eight major and minor operations were carried out in ENT, urology, orthopedic and plastic surgery.

For the first time, the project implemented laser and rehabilitation treatment, 7 sessions each, for 11 cases with burn injuries all over their bodies as a result of the assault on Gaza.

Amal Syam, program manager at PHS, thanked the donors and all those who supported the Wajd program for its vital humanitarian intervention, and its projects and social responsibility toward orphans and their families.

The project aims to improve the health of the hundreds of orphans who suffer health problems and disease, and who are in need of long term intervention or major surgeries that were diagnosed during the first year of the Wajd health project in 2015–2016.