Medical Aid for Palestinians

Making a Difference

£25 could help MAP supply vital pain control medicines such as analgesic drugs and antibiotics to treat people suffering from burns injuries.

£50 could help provide urgently needed teams of trained doctors and plastic surgeons to prevent the long-term suffering and deformity caused by burns.

£75 could help buy new instruments and equipment to upgrade burns units in Gaza and the West Bank.

Projects

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Al Awda Hospital
Thursday 2 September 2010
In March 2010 MAP announced the inauguration of a new Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Al Awda Hospital in...

Emergency Burns Appeal
Tuesday 3 August 2010
"First of all MAP is a way of expressing our friendship with the Palestinian people, so that people in...

Empowering people with disabilities
Thursday 20 May 2010
We need your help to find £34,162 to meet our target to support the people coping with disabilities in...

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Emergency Burns Appeal

September

Without the appliances and services we take for granted, Palestinians must perform basic everyday functions using gas cylinders, petrol and naked flames as fuel. Cramped and inadequate living conditions can often lead to domestic fires. And because burns units are few, and military checkpoints on the roads make them hard to reach, accidents like burns can prove deadly.

The Community Training Centre for Crisis Management

September

One of MAP's local partners in the Gaza Strip is the Community Training Centre for Crisis Management (CTCCM), which offers psycho-social support to children and families across Gaza, and is now supporting thousands of Palestinian children traumatized by the recent Israeli offensive.

Gaza Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

September

In March 2010 MAP announced the inauguration of a new Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Al Awda Hospital in the Gaza Strip as part of our Ensuring Safe Delivery project.The unit has been in operation since the 16th June with a 3 month orientation period in place. During this period the unit only accepted babies born via caesarean section.

Film - Chris Patten's Trip to Gaza

August

Visiting Gaza for the first time since becoming MAP President, Chris Patten spoke to the Guardian's Jerusalem correspondent describing Israel's policy of blockading Gaza as a "terrible failure - immoral, illegal and ineffective", which had "deliberately triggered an economic and social crisis which has many humanitarian consequences".

MAP Supporter - Desmond Tutu

August

Archbishop Desmond Tutu congratulates MAP on its 25th Anniversary.

Settlers defy peace talks with new construction across West Bank
Thursday 2 September 2010
Haaretz - Yesha council says settlers will start building in at least 80 settlements, breaking a government freeze that...

UN: refugee camps have higher jobless rates than Palestine
Thursday 2 September 2010
Daily Star - BEIRUT/GENEVA: Unemployment among Palestinians continues to be a crippling problem in the Occupied Territories but is...

Barack Obama urges Mid-East leaders to take opportunity
Thursday 2 September 2010
BBC - US President Barack Obama has urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders not to let the chance of a...