Long Term Support For Critical CasesOf Malnutrition
Little Lights Project Managers Team:
Olivia and Nikki
Campaign
The ‘Little Lights’ nutrition campaign focuses on providing monthly support to malnourished babies and infants in Gaza. To find cases, we obtain referrals from hospitals, journalists and our ground team. We then provide monthly parcels containing the appropriate milk, diapers and nutritious food to support the infant or child until they recover from malnutrition. In order to evaluate a child’s malnutrition, our team uses a MUAC band, which is a medical diagnostic tool that measures the middle upper arm circumference of a child below the age of 5, and grades the level of malnutrition.
Over the past 1.5 years, many children’s health and lives have been transformed due to our long-term food and formula support. Our consistent, targeted intervention has helped many children recover from malnutrition and it has also helped children with severe medical issues survive while they wait for evacuation.
Whilst our main aid consists of food, formula and diapers, many of the children suffering from malnutrition are also without other basic necessities such as adequate shelter or warm clothes. Little Lights ensures that the malnourished children on our campaign are looked after in every aspect and provides aid such as tents, mattresses, blankets and clothes.
While the heart of our project lies in Gaza where we support a large number of children through long-term monthly deliveries, our aim is to expand our malnutrition work to other conflict-affected areas where children are also suffering. We are currently working to support 30 malnourished children in Democratic Republic of Congo.
YOUR IMPACT
The price of the goods in the market fluctuates constantly but currently:
- $10 - $14 - Buys one can of formula to last approximately 4-5 days
- $70 - Purchases milk and a double pack of diapers for one of the malnourished babies for their monthly distribution
- $150 - Purchases a large nutritious food parcel for one of the older children on the malnourished campaign containing eggs, tahini, vegetables, fruits, legumes, rice, pasta and many other items
- $250 - Provides milk, a double pack of diapers and a nutritious food parcel for a malnourished child for their monthly distribution
- $350 - Allows us to purchase a tent and tarpaulin for a child and their family without adequate shelter
Every dollar makes a difference in bringing joy to families in need.
UPDATES
Little Lights is an initiative under the Australian NGO HopeNest, supporting malnourished children in Gaza with ongoing nutritional assistance to help them recover from malnutrition.
Thanks to the incredible support of our donors, over the past few months we have been able to deliver support to more than 80 children every month. This consistent assistance is making a real difference to many children’s lives, giving tangible support and nourishment to enable them to gain weight.
Our most recent children to recover from malnutrition include Nihad, Mohamed, Anas, Asyl, Tahani, Sulieman, Samer, Sham, Salem, Yahia and Nour. These children were once severely malnourished, but through consistent, ongoing nutritional support, they have been able to regain strength and recover.
Families in Gaza continue to face unimaginable hardship. Aid is still not reaching many families, and much of what does enter Gaza reaches markets where families simply cannot afford to buy what they need. Families have lost their homes, their jobs and their livelihoods, leaving parents struggling to provide even the most basic necessities for their children. As a result, many children continue to become malnourished.
But through consistent support, these children have a chance.
The recovery of these children shows how vital long-term support for these children is. It is not about providing food and milk once, but offering several months of assistance and care so that the children have the chance to recover from malnutrition to survive and hopefully thrive despite the hardships they face.
We are incredibly grateful to every donor who continues to support Little Lights. Your generosity is helping children recover and giving families hope during an extraordinarily difficult time.
SUPPORTERS
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Paola Albanese
$25.00 -
Sunitha Abraham
$25.00 -
Anonymous
$25.00No child in the world should have to experience hunger and war. Thank you for your invaluable work -
Michael Whitman
$25.00 -
Priscila Fernandez
$25.00 -
Aysha Kennedy
$50.00Doing amazing work ❤️ -
Meredith Haas
$100.00 -
Emily Soda
$7.00 -
Annie Clay
$22.50This is such an important lifeline to the children and babies in Gaza. Sending all our love xxx -
Mallory Is
$25.00
COMMENTS
- No child in the world should have to experience hunger and war. Thank you for your invaluable work
- I want to all children in Gaza live a safe life. Without starving and suffering
- Doing amazing work ❤️
- This is such an important lifeline to the children and babies in Gaza. Sending all our love xxx
- ❤️❤️❤️❤️
- The children in Gaza deserves to have their needs supplied
- We are donating on behalf Ana Victoria, for her birthday she requested for us to donate to amazing company supporting babies is Gaza. We are thankful to support this and honor her birthday wishes! Sending love to all the families.
- You are all amazing. Keep up the great work. Free Palestine
- Thank you for continuing to support and advocate for these families.
- Thanks for doing this amazing work. Please give the kids hugs and kisses - there are so much love for them and we wish we could do much more to help on the situation!
- Thank you, thank you thank you Gaza little lights. You have no idea how much it warms my heart to see the amazing work that you guys are doing to help children in Gaza after watching them suffer in a genocide for three years!!
- Keep on doing what you are doing. So helpful. Love & Peace
- Praying for these children every day
- We send our love to the beautiful people of Palestine, my family prays for your health, joy and freedom everyday ❤️
- When the situation in Gaza makes me feel helpless, seeing what you are doing to help these innocent children has made me feel hopeful. Keep up the amazing work.
- Thank you for all that you do. Your work is invaluable and so appreciated.
- Thank you for your amazing work
- This precious children need us.
- Every child’s life matter ❤️
- Hope this brutality will end soon so the children and people of Palestine could live in peace…
- I wish I could hold all of these babies and give their parents/caregivers a hug and food. Thank you for setting this up for them.
- Thank you for all your hard work and offering hope to these precious babies and their families.
- Incredible work
- Thank you thank you thank you!
- Hope everything finishes soon...
- I was donating regularly in the past but due to my circumstances changing I had to stop. Starting again today insha Allah.
- I wish i could do more. Thank you for everything!
- Gazze’de aç çocuklar için
- Thank you for everything you do for these sweet innocent angels!
- Thank you for the work you do. Words cannot explain my hopes for these children.
- Thank you for the work you do. No children should ever have to suffer.
- I thank you so much for supporting the little children in Gaza who suffer from Malnutrition.
- Free Palestine, all palestinian children are also ours.
- Hi
- I believe every child should have access to care, and it saddens me deeply that the children of Palestine are being impacted by this ongoing genocide. This donation is in support of them. And an honor of my dad who was an immigrant of Afro-Latino / Caribbean descent.
- These children deserve everything <3
- Thank you! Free Palestine.
- Gracias por ayudar a estos angelitos que Dios y el universo les siga iluminando y movilizando en este mundo a nosotros a distancia...♡
- One day you’ll be free and enjoying your lives as kids. My heart breaks seeing this injustice done to you. I’ll be donating more soon.
- Someday you’ll find peace and enjoying your lives as kids. My heart breaks seeing you like this. I swear I’ll be donating more soon.
- Free Palestine!
- Thank you thank you thank you! God bless you for your work!
- In honor of Stevie and Kyler’s wedding. We love you!
- Thank you for your work ❤️
- We love you.
- May you guys be rewarded. God is watching you. Your work is recognised.
- Appreciate people like you. I hope I will make enough money one day to donate much more
- For the babies x
- Thank you for helping those sweet babies <3
Little Lights Project Managers Team:
Olivia and Nikki
HopeNest Ltd | ABN: 49689380505
Registered Charity with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) Endorsed as a Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) under Subdivision 30-BA of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997. All donations of $2 or more are tax-deductible in Australia.
