Providing Food Assistance for Flood Victims in Palestine

Providing Food Assistance for Flood Victims in Palestine

Um Sujood Adas using her e-voucher at a local grocery store. She lost all of the possessions in her home due to massive flooding. 
Global Communities is providing assistance to 200 households in the Palestinian town of Anabta in the form of electronic food vouchers through the Food Security Program funded by the World Food Programme (WFP). The assistance is being provided in response to the devastating flooding in the town of Anabta, following the most severe winter storm to hit the region in the last 30 years.
Due to the damages from the flooding in Anabta, a small town in the northern West Bank, hundreds of families were forced to evacuate their homes and are in desperate need of assistance to help rebuild what has been destroyed. Mr. Salah Najeeb, the head of the Anabta Municipality estimated that the cost of the damages to the town will be in the millions and urged both local and international communities to support reconstruction efforts. “The emergency committee was very responsive and such humanitarian assistance is much needed from both the local and international community because the damage is massive,” stated Mr. Najeeb in his speech to representatives from Global Communities and WFP in their visit to Anabta on January 14, 2013.
Um Sujood Adas, a 62 year old widow, describes her ordeal: “I was visiting my daughter up the hill when it started to rain heavily, I got worried and asked my daughter’s husband to go check on the house, he came back with the bad news which I refused to believe…my house drowned, all my belongings soaked in water, I have nothing left but some important documents.” Along with her Palestinian identification card, she held her e-voucher which was distributed to her and 200 other Anabtawi families in need of basic items food items.
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