At the end of last year, 1.6 million people in Gaza were living with crisis levels of hunger. Then food reached them at scale, and by this summer that number had fallen to 1.2 million. It worked. Getting food to people worked.
Now it is going back the other way. The IPC projects more than 1.4 million by the end of this year. That is 2 out of every 3 people in Gaza. Not because the food stopped working. Because it started running out.
So UMMA cooks. Our team in Gaza prepares hot meals fresh on the day and carries them straight into the displacement camps. Spiced rice with chicken or meat on top. A full plate, not a spoonful. Families living in tents with no way to cook come first, along with children with disabilities, elderly people and pregnant women.
This is not a one-time delivery. Our goal is 1,000 hot meals every week, and every time we go back into the camps, we post an update on this page. You will see exactly where your support went.
So far: 500 hot meals. 250 families. At least 1,250 people. 2 camps.
On October 20, our team cooked and delivered 500 hot meals in 2 displacement camps in West Gaza City: Atyaf Al-Kheir and Al-Italli. 250 families. At least 1,250 people. Every meal was cooked the same day and handed straight to the families.
Maybe you have donated to Gaza already and wondered whether it landed anywhere. It did. 400,000 people came off the hunger rolls between last winter and this summer. That is the IPC's own count. Food going in is the only thing that has ever moved that number.
$5 is 1 full plate in someone's hands. $25 is a family around 1 table. $5,000 is 1,000 meals, our full weekly goal.
The projection for the end of this year is not a prophecy. It is a number that moves when people feed people. Give what you can, and the next update will be right here.
Build. Serve. Scale.
