CARE Succeeds
Program managers at CARE International have had to think outside of the box when it
comes to helping the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Pockets of populations are
limited with boarders and checkpoints that hinder their mobility. One of the many cases
is the community in Al Maleh, located in the northern region of the Jordan Valley. With
approximately 1,000 inhabitants, the Al-Maleh community is restricted from health care
facilities due to checkpoints that require prior coordination with Israeli authorities.
CARE International has launched a project serving to curb the acute health needs in the
West Bank and Gaza by maintaining mobile clinics for residents of vulnerable
communities, one of which is Al-Maleh. The Community-Based Health and Hygiene
Assistance in Palestine (COHHAP) project, funded by the European Commission for
Humanitarian Aid (ECHO), aims to provide both preventive and curative primary health
care to the local population in most isolated communities in the West Bank as well as
impoverished communities in the Gaza Strip. The interventions offer specialized care for
women and children, yet services do not exclude any
vulnerable and or marginalized group. The project
provides mobile clinics and medical staff with emergency
first aid resources in communities that lack health clinics.
Besides emergency response and primary health care,
beneficiaries also receive health and hygiene awareness
from medical staff who also offer indispensable services
such as post-natal care.
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