WHAT WE DO
Gaza has become the deadliest place in the world to be a child. The Children's Village is a lifeline for Gaza's most vulnerable children, providing essential care, protection, and hope for the future.
OUR MISSION
The Academy of Hope is building a safe and nurturing community in Gaza, designed to give children the care, stability, and opportunities they deserve. Here, vulnerable children can heal from trauma, access quality education, receive medical care, and find the dignity of daily nourishment.
In Gaza today, over one million children are growing up amid crisis. Many face unimaginable challenges such as amputations, burns, brain injuries, untreated illnesses, and widespread malnutrition. More than 300,000 children urgently need supplements and treatment to combat hunger and its lasting effects.
With poverty deepening and education disrupted, children urgently need a place of safety where they can recover, learn, and dream again. The Academy of Hope provides that sanctuary, a place where resilience is restored, futures are rebuilt, and hope shines brighter than despair.
Our Projects
Our work centers on rebuilding childhood and creating long-term, sustainable care for Gaza’s most vulnerable children. Through an integrated approach that combines education, nutrition, healthcare, psychosocial rehabilitation, and community empowerment, we are building a model of hope and recovery for Gaza.
1. The Academies of Hope Network
The Academies of Hope are the core of GCV’s mission, a growing network of community-led campuses providing education, meals, medical care, and emotional support.
By mid-November 2025, GCV will operate five Academies of Hope, serving 7,500 children daily, with each academy hosting more than 1,000 orphaned and vulnerable children.
Ongoing Projects include:
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Relocating and expanding the Deir al-Balah Academy to a larger, better-structured site to serve 1,500 children.
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Two new Academies in Khan Younis and Mawasi, each hosting over 1,000 children from high-density areas.
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The Zawaidah Academy, under construction, will welcome 1,000+ children by November 2025.
Each campus includes classrooms, a clinic, and community spaces, designed to restore stability, routine, and dignity to children who have gone years without consistent schooling or safety.
2. Emergency Relief and Childcare Support
Our team of experts continues to coordinate the entry of baby formula, medical supplies, and essential medications, while successfully facilitating the delivery of 500 wheelchairs in September 2025 for children with mobility challenges.
During the first week of November 2025, and in partnership with Kinder Relief, GCV procured and distributed over 1,400 cans of baby formula to infants in need across Gaza, including those in refugee camps and pediatric wards, and provided urgent shelter support by distributing over 1,000 meters of tarps to hundreds of displaced families.
These emergency interventions directly address the severe shortages of nutrition and medical supplies, ensuring that the youngest and most vulnerable children receive life-saving care and protection.
3. The Jane Goodall Zoo: Healing Through Compassion
In October 2025, GCV rescued and sheltered over 50 animals from a destroyed zoo in Gaza, now cared for under the Jane Goodall Zoo by The Gaza Children’s Village. The zoo will soon be relocated near our academies, where children will participate in caring for animals as part of our psychosocial support and therapy program.
This initiative fosters empathy, responsibility, and emotional healing, allowing children to rebuild trust and joy through direct connection with animals.
4. GCV Pediatric Hospital
GCV is in negotiations to acquire and restore a 120+ bed facility, transforming it into Gaza’s first dedicated pediatric hospital.
The hospital will provide life-saving medical care for children who cannot evacuate, offering inpatient and outpatient treatment, surgical services, and rehabilitation, while allowing families to stay together in safety and dignity.
5. Women’s Centers for Hope
The Women’s Centers for Hope initiative responds to an urgent and escalating crisis facing Gaza’s most vulnerable women, particularly single mothers and displaced women who lack income, safety, and food security, and who often face exploitation or coercion to meet basic needs.
This program establishes five self-sustaining community hubs that provide food security, psychosocial support, and income-generating skills for 50–100 women across Gaza.
It is powered by a strategic partnership between GCV and WCC (Women Championship Change), a global network of influential women driving fundraising, advocacy, and long-term financial stability for the women of Gaza.
Our Vision
Through every classroom built, every meal served, and every child and mother empowered, GCV is restoring dignity and opportunity where it has been lost.
Our goal is simple but urgent: to give Gaza’s children and women not just survival, but a future filled with safety, learning, and hope.
Shelter support
Our teams have been providing urgent shelter support across Gaza, distributing all available tarps to hundreds of displaced families in refugee camps.
HEALTHCARE
Through its Academies of Hope, pediatric hospital plans, and emergency interventions, GCV delivers critical medical services, nutrition, and protection while fostering long-term recovery and stability.
EDUCATION
GCV provides quality education to Gaza’s most vulnerable children through its Academies of Hope, offering structured classrooms, meals, and emotional support to restore stability and routine.
Safe space
GCV creates safe recreational spaces where children can play, laugh, and experience joy, reclaiming their childhood and finding healing amidst crisis.
Psychosocial Support
GCV provides psychosocial support to help children heal from trauma and build emotional resilience through counseling, therapy, and structured activities.