Support Health 4 Palestine.
There are over 1 million Palestinian refugees in the West Bank. There are 19 UN-run Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank. Health 4 Palestine, 1for3’s program, works in 6 of them with a total population of over 100,000. We want to do more. You can help. Join Our Campaign.
Pic. A child from the Aida refugee camp turns the tables on a Health 4 Palestine international physician with a stethoscope.
Health 4 Palestine is an amazing community-based program. For the past 8 years, it has brought together an international team of medical professionals with local doctors & nurses to train & employ young Palestinians to be community health workers. Together, they now serve 6 refugee camps with much needed high-touch home-based care.
Building Healthcare in Palestine
How We Will Use Donated Funds
#1. Make a Health Clinic Ready for Large-scale Use. It will serve 2 camps with a total population of over 10,000 -- expanding screenings, chronic disease management & follow-up care.
#2. Train & Employ Young Health Workers in Jalazone Camp. This will strengthen healthcare access while addressing unemployment. Photo: UNRWA.
#3. Launch a Multi-year Expansion of Community-based Healthcare with Bethlehem University. Through this partnership, we are building a sustainable training & expansion pathway for community-based healthcare.
#4. Support Community Health Workers in Besieged Camps. We will equip & sustain health workers, who are already serving families, under severe movement restrictions & forced displacement.
#5. Expand Pediatric Wellness Training. We will continue to grow education & preventative care efforts to improve children's health outcomes.
#6. Use Locally Grown Food for Better Health. Through rooftop gardens & other environmental initiatives, we are integrating nutrition & chronic disease care using locally grown produce.
*You can contribute by clicking on the Donate to Health 4 Palestine button at the top of the page. It goes to the fundraising campaign website that has all the details on Health 4 Palestine. You can also send a check to: 1for3, 58 N. Border Road, Winchester, MA. 01890.
Video: Advancing Food Sovereignty
Working with partners in Palestine & in the US we support urban gardening in Palestinian refugee camps. This is a great video that showcases 1 of these. It was made by our local partner & a US-based non-profit.
Supporting local food production helps to reduce reliance on Israeli food products. These are subject to availability at the whim of the military occupier. The garden in the video uses hydroponic technology & is located on the rooftop of a family home in Aida camp.
Making More Gardens
Working with Design Palestine, a Boston-based group of design professionals & local partners, 1for3 is expanding food production in camps. In 2026 we will add 20-30 new soil-based planting gardens. These are less expensive & easier to maintain than hydroponic gardens. Like them, however, the new gardens use less water than normal growing methods & benefit from shade covering. This aids plant growth on rooftops & balconies, while also making a nice place to sit on a hot day.
Click on the image to view the video. In it, you meet Muntaha Abu Ouda. In the background are our environment manager, & Aida camp Health 4 Palestine community health workers. Integrating high-touch healthcare & nutrition is a cornerstone of our work in community-based healthcare.
Kindergarteners + Environment
Students at Zahrat Al-Yasmeen, our kindergarten, recently did 2 special environmental activities. With their teachers the students learned how to recycle paper & use edible greens as food. In the pictures, students are working with their teachers to recycle paper & walking in nearby land that is not closed off yet by the Israeli military. For the food project, over the course of a week they planted & tended sweet mustard microgreens. Then, they harvested them & made healthy sandwiches with other ingredients. These 2 activities provide a window on the hands-on, child-focused pedagogy used by teachers at Zahrat Al-Yasmeen to engage students on the environment around them. Pretty cool.
1for3: 1 Organization - 3 Palestinian Rights.
Health
Health 4 Palestine (H4P) is our program that supports community health. In it, 26 trained community health workers (CHWs) work in 5 camps with over 700 patients. Most care focuses on treating chronic diseases & trauma.
Environment Food
Our work in food encompasses the construction & operation of three community hydroponic gardens & a number of micro growing towers. We provide training in hydroponics. Women & young people make up the core participants in our food work. Our goal is to advance Palestinian food sovereignty & support healthy lifestyles.
Environment Water
We established potable water quality monitoring programs, built two community cisterns, replaced 30 rooftop water tanks to safeguard household water supplies & trained refugees to conduct independent water testing that resulted in upgraded infrastructure improvements. We also led four delegations to build water testing labs & train testing technicians.
Education
Zahrat Al-Yasmeen kindergarten.
Since 2019, 1for3 has brought together Palestinian & US educators to support child-focused learning. Together, they build curricula, teaching methods & new offerings of student support. Opened in 2021 & located in the UN-run Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem, West Bank, Zahrat Al-Yasmeen kindergarten provides a great pre-school education for 50 children from two UN-run camps.