By Lama Abed and Maria Syed | Staff Writer and Director of Development
For the past 1 year and 7 months, Rebuilding Alliance’s kitchen teams have been feeding tens of thousands of people every day in Gaza. In total, as of May 31st, our community kitchens have served 22.5 Million meals.
Up until May 31st, our eight remaining kitchens were serving 27,000 meals each day, across Gaza. They were forced to stop when food supplies finally ran out. No rice. No lentils. No oil. Nothing to cook with.
Our teams held on as long as they could. Even when bombings shook the ground around them. Even when they faced displacements, one after another. Even when they had to make impossible choices about who to feed first. But now, they can’t cook anymore. Because aid is barely coming through, and families are starving.
To respond to the growing needs of Gaza families when the war began in October 2023, Rebuilding Alliance, which was already serving 4000 hot meals per week, expanded its hot meals program. when the war began. Our kitchens were operated by local community-based organization partners.
From November 2023 until the final shutdown in May 2025, our kitchens persevered under siege. Our brave CBO partners and their staff members and volunteers cooked through extreme hardship and danger. They continued operating even when ingredients were scarce, cooking with whatever was available locally or provided from the World Food Programme.
Still, we are not giving up. While our kitchens can no longer operate, our team in Gaza delivered food parcels to 496 families with acute malnourished children. These families were identified by Ard Al Insan, a distinguished pediatric association in Gaza and long-time partner of Rebuilding Alliance, who is providing nutrition supplements to these children in crisis.
Each parcel contains enough food to support an entire family, carefully packed to stretch as long as possible. When our kitchens were open, families received hot meals daily at distribution points. Now, we are doing our best to continue reaching the most vulnerable through parcels.
We are ready and determined to expand beyond 496 families as soon as funding and access allow. We need your help to fund the emergency food distribution.
Thanks for your continued support.
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