Women's Humanitarian Organization

PWHO with its partner Dorcas are implementing a feeding program that offers sandwiches, fruits and vegetables to Palestinian and Syrian refugee children on a daily basis (6 days/week).  This project targets PWHO’s beneficiaries, mainly children, in order to maintain a healthy diet for them. This project runs mainly in Bourej el Barajneh camp and it offers a breakfast meal.

PWHO did several distributions for the Palestinian and Syrian refugees, in addition to some migrants who reside in the Palestinian camps through the help and support of the donors. The distributions took place at PWHO’s centers, by the PWHO’s staff members. The distributions differed from food kits to hygiene kits. In addition to that, PWHO and in response to COVID-19, distributed leaflets, measured the temperature of the people living in the camp and its surrounding, and explained to them the origin of COVID19, along with its symptoms, prevention methods, protection steps, and physical distancing. Please note that some of the pictures are without light and that is because of the situation in Lebanon where most areas have no power or low power feed.

As COVID-19 threatens refugee camps, humanitarian responses must not forget the needs of vulnerable women and girls Olfat Mahmoud is the Founder and Director of the Palestinian Women’s Humanitarian Organization in Lebanon. Marcy Hersh is the Senior Manager for Humanitarian Advocacy at Women Deliver.     In Bourj-el-Barajneh refugee camp in Lebanon, residents now joke: “Perhaps COVID-19 will forget about us too.” Their sprawling settlement – home to up to 45,000 refugees – has no known cases of COVID-19 so far. Yet despite this grim humor, advocates agree that it is just a matter of time before the pandemic reaches all refugee camps, and those hardest hit will be girls and women.   For refugee girls and women everywhere, the feeling of being “forgotten” is rooted in an unacceptable reality: for decades, their perspectives have been an afterthought in humanitarian action. Across the globe, most displacement settings have been lef...