WHO WE ARE
PATRON:
MADONNA
DAME JUDI DENCH
ROYAL PATRON:
HH THE BEGUM
AGA KHAN
Copyright Children of Peace;
design and build by
THE AMERICAN FUND FOR CHARITIES
Supporting Good Causes Worldwide
Children of Peace seeks to protect all of the children and their communities in Israel
and Palestine - Bedouin, Christian, Druze, Jewish and Muslim.
We do this by acting as an non partisan, multifaith intermediary and by focusing
upon building alliances with like-minded organisations in the Gaza, Israel and the
West Bank to establish projects and programmes in the arts, education, health and
sports for Israeli and Palestinian children, aged 4 - 17. As an grant making agency
we will only fund projects with organisations who have been accepted as affiliates
or Preferred Partners.
Affiliates must share our principles of conflict resolution, peaceful co-existence,
co-operation between communities and respect for the faith, heritage, history and
values of each community in the Middle East.
Palestinian and Israel children are paying a heavy and disproportionate price for
the regional conflict - those who are not killed or injured live in a chronic state
of anxiety, both about the present situation and what the future holds.
The statistics below bear this out...
33% of Israeli children have personally been affected by terrorism and 70% experience
a fear of hopelessness. (source: Herzog's trauma center.)
70% of Palestinian children suffer from post traumatic stress disorder. (source:
Canadian Journal of Psychiatry.)
In just 2004 alone 557,000 Israeli children arrived at hospital Emergency Rooms including
34% due to trauma. (source: UNICEF 2006.)
UNICEF estimates that since 2000, over 700 Palestinian and Israeli children have
been killed as a result of the conflict, and a further 10,000 injured, with several
hundred living with the resulting permanent disabilities. (sources: Btselem Report
and UNICEF 2006.)
A study in August 2002 by the US Agency for International Development showed that
more than one-fifth of young Palestinian children are malnourished, with twenty-two
percent of Palestinian children under the age of 5 suffering from malnutrition.
A similar study conducted in Israel found that 31% of Israeli children are living
below the poverty line (with over 50% of Arab children living under poverty line).
WHAT WE DO
