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Since the 1980s, Mercy Corps has helped Palestinians build a more peaceful and hopeful future by connecting teenagers in Gaza to their peers in U.S. high schools, helping people with disabilities amplify their voice in society and giving enterprising young women in the West Bank the opportunity to learn marketable new skills.

Our current efforts focus on providing short-term jobs to Gazans hurt by the territory's severe economic downturn.

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In the hillside town of Dura, Mercy Corps built the area's first vocational school for young women. It provides equal educational opportunities for girls and increase their job prospects.

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Mercy Corps Responds to Gaza Crisis

 Mercy Corps has distributed blankets to dozens of families in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis and awaits permission to deliver truckloads of food staples...

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Work in Gaza Continues Amid Closure

 Mercy Corps' programs in Gaza are struggling to operate amid Israel's ongoing closure of Gaza's border, which has led to fuel rationing, electricity and water shortages and rising prices.

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A Fresco in Gaza

 An Italian painter and teacher noted for melding art and humanitarianism recently helped 100 Palestinian youth express themselves in a Gazan fresco.

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