Gaza: The work continues Ocotber 2025
Following the ceasefire, Gaza begins to rebuild. Amos Trust continues providing aid, medical care, trauma support and education while demanding lasting justice for Palestine.
“Climbing Kilimanjaro has been on my bucket list for some time. At 5,895 metres it is both the highest mountain in Africa and the highest free-standing mountain in the world.” Neil Irving writes about ticking-off one item from his bucket list to raise funds for Amos Trust.
Climbing Kilimanjaro has been on my bucket list for some time. At 5,895 metres it is both the highest mountain in Africa and the highest free-standing mountain in the world.
I also wanted to use the opportunity to raise funds for Cheka Sana Tanzania, a Tanzanian NGO working on the shores of Lake Victoria and one of Amos Trust’s On Her Terms partners.
Cheka supports children and young people living or working on the streets, using a therapeutic, solutions-focused approach which concentrates on children’s potential and strengths. I’d met and listened to workers from Cheka at a session at Amos Day in September 2018.
I reached the summit of Kilimanjaro just before sunrise on 26 February 2019. It had taken us a week, starting in banana and coffee plantations at +30°C through rain forest, moorland and arctic desert to the summit and glaciers at -20°C. I learnt to walk very slowly, to cope with the effects of the extreme altitude.
It was a wonderful, if challenging experience and I raised just over £1,500 for Amos’ work with street children. There is still time to sponsor me; if you are interested, please visit my fundraising page.
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Find out more about Amos’ On Her Terms campaign and Cheka Sana Tanzania. And if you would like to tick something off your bucket list and raise money for Amos Trust, please contact Katie Hagley.
Amos Trust is working with Ajyal Association for Creativity and Development, a youth-led organisation in Gaza City, to support families facing displacement and food shortages. From empowering women through microbakeries to providing thousands of hot meals for children and their families, discover how grassroots resilience is bringing hope amid the ongoing crisis in Gaza.
Our partner in Gaza, Al Alhi Arab Hospital, is now running as an emergency centre undertaking 20-35 operations a day with 150 inpatients. It is now the only outpatient hospital and general medical facility serving a vast part of Gaza City. Read our full Al Ahli Hospital update.
“In the past year, I have lost many of the tangible parts of my memories — the people and places and things that helped me remember. Every destroyed house becomes a kind of album, filled not with photos but with real people, the dead pressed between its pages.” Read our latest Gaza update with news of our partners, Al Ahli Hospital, DSPR, the Gaza Sunbirds and We Are Not Numbers.
“We, the undersigned organisations, call upon global leaders to uphold their legal and moral responsibilities in light of the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion and the UN General Assembly resolution.” Read our shared post about how world leaders must act to end Israel’s unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
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