World Vision's work in West Bank and Gaza

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Currently, about 25,000 children are registered in the World Vision sponsorship programs throughout the West Bank and Gaza. Several times this number of children and other family members benefit from World Vision activities.

World Vision targets community clusters where basic services and infrastructure are lacking most.

Our recent development activities include:

• Food security: providing and repairing infrastructure for water resources management; agriculture projects; water management:
• Education: building classrooms, vocational training: Building play-grounds, child centres and kindergartens; care and education for special needs children;
• Income generation: Job creation, vocational training, establishing home gardens;
• Advocacy to raise awareness of the situation that impacts World Vision Jerusalem programmes, especially children;
• Response to conflict: Psychosocial interventions intended to improve the wellbeing of children;
• Emergency relief: Distribution of food parcels, blankets and medicine to displaced people and families in need.

Where we work

Total WV JWG FY09 budget: $10.4 million USD

Existing Area Development Programs (ADPs):

• East Hebron ADP
• South Gaza ADP
• Bethlehem ADP
• West Ramallah ADP
• Northeast Jenin ADP
• South Jenin ADP
• West Jenin ADP
• Southeast Salfit ADP
• North Gaza ADP

Institutional projects:

• 11 various projects

WV JWG—Stats:

• Number of ADPs: 9 ADPS
• Number of ADPs in Progress: 4
• institutional projects (IPs): 11
• Number of full-time staff: 85
• Number of short-term staff: 13
• Number of registered children: 25,810
• Population served: 247,674 (includes direct & indirect beneficiaries)
• Communities served: 58
• Direct beneficiaries (2008): 74,431
• Indirect beneficiaries: 173,243 (some beneficiaries might have benefited from more than one service and could have been counted more than once)
• Community-based organizations and schools helped: 206