Please help provide students in Rafah, a town and refugee camp in the Gaza Strip in Palestine, with clean, healthy water to drink.

Gaza is home to over a million children. At least 95% of the water there is unfit for human consumption without proper filtration, decontamination, and desalination. Expensive, imported bottled water is a severe burden on the poor majority of the population.

The Madison-Rafah Sister City Project is once again raising funds to provide one of MECA's large Maia Project water filtration units for the children of Rafah, this time at the UN Al-Shuka Preparatory School.

Due to lack of building materials, this school runs in a double shift and serves only girls in one shift and co-ed in the second shift. A total of 2,000 students and their families will be able to access clean water from this unit.

Ultimately solving the water crisis in Gaza requires lifting the siege and finding a just and permanent resolution of the conflict that addresses all the factors that produce the water crisis, including badly misguided U.S. policies. 

But the children cannot wait. Please help us help them now.