The Community Training Centre for Crisis Management
1 September 2010
One of MAP's local partners in the Gaza Strip is the Community Training Centre for Crisis Management (CTCCM), which offers psycho-social support to children and families across Gaza, and is now supporting thousands of Palestinian children traumatized by the recent Israeli offensive.
Al Shifa Hospital Burns Unit
27 August 2010
Without the appliances and services we take for granted, Palestinians must perform basic everyday functions using gas cylinders, petrol and naked flames as fuel. Cramped and inadequate living conditions can often lead to domestic fires. And because burns units are few, and military checkpoints on the roads make them hard to reach, accidents like burns can prove deadly.
Impact of the Blockade - Gaza's Fishing Industry
23 August 2010
MAP Films speaks with Gaza's fishermen about the continued impact of the blockade.
Chris Patten's Trip to Gaza
23 August 2010
Visiting Gaza for the first time since becoming MAP President, Chris Patten spoke to the Guardian's Jerusalem correspondent, and described Israel's policy of blockading Gaza as a "terrible failure - immoral, illegal and ineffective", which had "deliberately triggered an economic and social crisis which has many humanitarian consequences".
Emergency Burns Appeal
23 August 2010
While the world's news crews and television cameras may have moved on, problems in Gaza and the West Bank remain. The ongoing Israeli occupation and siege means frequent power cuts and restricted access to fuel, so Palestinians are forced to rely on primitive, "make-do" equipment for cooking, heating and washing. Without the appliances and services we take for granted, Palestinians must perform basic everyday functions using gas cylinders, petrol and naked flames as fuel.
Homeless in Gaza
23 August 2010
MAP Films talks with Palestinian families whose homes were destroyed during Israel's 'Operation: Cast Lead'
Struggling to Rebuild
23 August 2010
According to the UNDP more than a year after Israel's military operations against the Gaza Strip three quarters of the damage inflicted on buildings and infrastructure remains unrepaired.
UN Summer Camps
12 August 2010
Around a quarter of a million children participate in the Summer Games, which include sports as well as recreational and cultural activities. This is the fourth year that UNRWA has organized the programme in Gaza, whose 1.5 million Palestinian residents have been languishing under a three-year-old Israeli blockade. "Like children anywhere in the world, children here must have a sense of normality," said the UN's John Ging. "Despite the abnormality they face in their daily lives, today's achievement has lifted the spirits of the entire population here in Gaza."
Primary Trauma Care
12 August 2010
MAP and the Primary Trauma Care Foundation (PTCF) are providing an Instructor Course Programme designed to empower local surgeons and anaesthetists in injury prevention strategies, as well as in the management of severe trauma at the district hospital level. Primary Trauma Care (PTC) is a system for training front-line staff in hospital trauma management, aimed at preventing death and disability in seriously injured patients. In November 2009, MAP and PTCF led a team consisting of three surgeons - including Sir Terence English, who performed Britain's first successful heart transplant - and two anaesthetists to undertake the PTC training programme and a following Instructors course. From this, more than forty doctors and nurses were trained and sixteen were appointed as Instructors to lead the development of PTC in Gaza.
Interview with John Ging
9 August 2010
In December 2009 MAP interviewed John Ging, Director of Operations in Gaza for the UN Refugee and Works Agency.
Safe Delivery Programme
3 August 2010
During the war on Gaza, there was no plan in place for women in Gaza to give birth safely. Many babies were born at home or en-route to hospital without a midwife and without the necessary sterile equipment. MAP is working alongside the UN to ensure that a plan is in place for the future, and that more community midwives, doctors and nurses are trained in the necessary skills to protect and treat mothers and newborns at risk. In cooperation with UNICEF and the UN Population Fund, paediatric equipment is being delivered to support safe delivery in four hospitals across Gaza.
Building a Future for People with Disabilities
25 June 2010
Without access to the most basic support structures and services, many Palestinians with disabilities are marginalised, excluded from education, work and social activities. MAP's holistic programme helps people play a more active role in their own personal development and communities.
Life or Death – Medical Referrals from Gaza
11 March 2010
The strict closure of the Gaza Strip has impoverished and restricted medical services in Gaza. This increases the need to refer patients for treatment outside Gaza. The process of obtaining a referral document is not easy, and when a patient manages to obtain it, he or she then has to wait for a hospital appointment to come through, before applying to the Israeli Authorities for permission to leave Gaza.
MAP FILMS looks at the reality of life for Palestinians in Gaza trying to access health services outside the territory.
The Silent War: Israel's Blockade of Gaza
16 February 2010
Israel's blockade of Gaza has been in place for almost three years.
Building on existing closures and restrictions, the blockade means the delay or denial of a broad range of items - food, industrial, educational, medical - deemed "non-essential" for a population largely unable to be self-sufficient at the end of decades of occupation. The blockade prevents access by sea, land and air, effectively closing off a population of 1.5 million Palestinians from the outside world.
This short film examines what the blockade means for the people of Gaza, as they struggle to rebuild their lives over a year after Operation Cast Lead.
Snapshot: Gaza
1 February 2010
MAP interview with the owner of destroyed food warehouse that has still not been rebuilt over a year after the Israeli offensive on Gaza.
The Lancet Press Conference
29 January 2010
In March 2009, The Lancet launched its special series, 'Health in the Occupied Palestinian Territory'. MAP was an integral part of this project.
In the Wake of War: Gaza One Year On
27 January 2010
MAP Speak at Gaza Press Conference
20 January 2010
Wafaa's Story
19 January 2010
When Eyad al-Radea reaches his first birthday on 10 January, it will be a day for his family to give thanks not just for his health and happiness but for the fact that his mother, against all odds, is there to join in the celebrations.
Read Guardian article about Wafaa
Gaza Anniversary Approaches
2 December 2009
A Gaza resident speaks of the impact that the attacks on Gaza had on her children.
