Cooperative Society for Saving and Lending – CSSL has concluded the 8th stage of meals project “Bring the smile back of children of devastated areas in Gaza Strip” for the academic year 2017 implemented by CSSL in kindergarten in marginalized rural areas that were bombed and destroyed in Beit Hanoun, Shijia, Moghraqa, east of Al Bureij, Wadi al-Salqa, Bani Suhaila and Farrahin with generous funding of KINDER USA Foundation.
22,545 meals have been provided and for three months at a rate of three meals per week to 517 children in seven kindergartens in rural and marginalized areas in Gaza Strip, located in border line of 1948 and had been bombed and destruction during last war, pointing out that the targeted children living a very difficult economic conditions and the implementation of the project has been implemented in the same kindergartens for the second year due to the severity of the suffering of these children in these areas, psychologically and economically.
The project concluded with a festival as a fun day for children in the Dolphin Resort in Gaza, children expressed their joy to alleviate their suffering through their participation in puppet show and give them a full role in the practice of what they want, and to highlight their talents and support them psychologically during a trip far from their homes
