Palestine Association for Education and Environmental Protection ( PAEEP)

Strategic objectives:
PAEEP aims to contribute to:
 Upgrading educational thinking, environmental awareness and consolidating and disseminating community involvement and responsibility towards preserving the natural wealth.
 Providing the society with the environmental information means.
 Improve health care quality and safety through support care in the community and at home.
 Contributing to the improvement of the environmental situation and working on reducing the environmental contaminants
 Contributing to the formulation and development of environmental laws and legislation
 Rehabilitating and empowering human resources in protecting the environment and motivating them.
 To facilitate the empowerment of farmers/producers through assistance for mobilization, organization into associations, cooperatives etc. for their increased participation in planning, marketing, technology dissemination and agro-processing etc.
 
Improving the Children's Environmental Learning in Al-Shijaia District" funded by United Palestinian Appeal (UPA) November 2014
Improving the children's environmental learning in Al-Shejaiia after the war” project that implemented in the East Gaza in Gaza Governorates. The project was aiming to restore normal life to children of Al-Shejaia KGs after the Israeli offensive on Gaza Strip that resulted nearly 2,200 deaths including nearly 500 Palestinian children that reported children experienced heightened distress.  In addition, this project improved the educational attainment of children through the distribution of recreational and educational tools for the use of children in kindergarten.  This project targeted nearly 970 children (530 male and 440 female) in three Kindergartens who are mostly in the age between 3 to 5-year-old and 38 KGs teacher.
Support affected families" funded by Norwegian People's Aid, October 2014.
PAEEP distributed cooking utensils to 285 families in need in North and Gaza Governorate to support families who were affected by the July 2014 war on Gaza Strip.
PAEEP distributed clothes for 600 children from the Gaza Strip from the families who had their home destroyed in the Last war on Gaza Strip, as part of a project of Gaza Emergency Relief
Reducing Food Insecurity through Food basket Assistance extremely to vulnerable and conflict affected older people headed" funded by United Palestinian Appeal (UPA)
To ensure that 45 food insecure older people have provided the basic needs in Ramadan to food and better nutritional status through distribution a food basket.
Strengthening civil society as a means of poverty reduction for vulnerable older people in the occupied Palestinian territory
The action aims to increase the productivity and scope of the livelihood’s activities of 250 older people and their families to increase their household income. It will do this in two main ways: (a) Livelihoods training and (b) Provision of assets/inputs for earning income: the action will provide poor older people with additional assets to expand their opportunities for future income and food for their own consumption. The assets/inputs will include bee keeping, poultry, sheep and vegetables and will vary according to the local economy and individual household priorities
Enhancing food security conditions of marginalized communities in WB and Gaza" funded by Norwegian Peoples Aid
The project was aiming to improve and sustaining agricultural activities, resource management and food security of 274 families in Gaza and WB. The project has three main activities in Gaza: 1) Planting 191 dunums of seasonal crops for 45 farmers ( 34 M, 11F)   2) Land Rehabilitation of 49 dunums for 8 farmers (7 M, 1F)  3) Creation of 925 workdays for 23 (18M,5F) unemployed agricultural field supervisor and worker, and 5 main activities in WB: 1) Establishment of 15 water harvesting cisterns for 15 farmers(11M,4F) and recharged each with 50 m3  2) Rehabilitation of 30 damaged cisterns for 30 farmers(23 M,7F) and recharge each with 50m3 3) Planting of 90 dunums with olive, citrus& almonds for 24 farmers(17M,7F)  4) Rehabilitation of 36 green houses for 29 farmers (19M, 10F) 5) Creation of 775 workdays for 10(4M,6F) unemployed agricultural field worker and supervisor. The project period extended one more month to end in 28 Feb. instead of 31st of Jan 2014 which was an emergency relief to the affected farmers in Tulkarm by the last storm of cold and rain in December 2014 .The extension activities in Dhinnaba Tulkarm 1) Distributing nylon of damaged green houses for 45 farmers (29M, 16F), open fields crops for 45 farmers(35M,10F) and compost  for the same 90 farmers 2) Leveling of agricultural road in Ertah Valley 3) creation of 75 workdays for 3farmers (2M,1F)  unemployed agricultural field supervisor.
Youth engagement in civic society to increase the environmental awareness (Environment Guardians)"Funded by USAID in partnership with Catholic Relief service
It aimed to develop the grassroots Palestinian youth skills who are engaged in environmental awareness to boost their community participation and increase the awareness of Palestinian public in Gaza Strip on critical environmental issues. The project has three main activities: 1) Opening Workshop 2) Life Skills Training 3) Celebration of the Arab Environment Day on 14 October. The project period has been extended one more month to end in 30 Nov. instead of 31st of Oct. 2013.
The actual main activity of awareness and planting campaign was held at Gaza Community College for Tourist Studies, Gaza Training College (UNRWA), and Gaza University. After a deep coordination with AlAzhar University and AlQuds Open University, the midterm exams were the biggest problem for those universities to accept the participation in our project activities. On regards to the activities that were canceled, there were two activities: design and publish the three websites and the laptops purchase, these were canceled upon the new amendments to extend the project one more month, according to the approval of CRS's supervisor.
Rehabilitation of agriculture land and cultivated with mature plant and job creation program
The project aims to support the agricultural sector through rehabilitation of damaged lands, and to provide employment opportunities for poor and marginalized farmers in Gaza and the North Governorate. About 160 dunums was rehabilitated and planted with mature trees in Gaza and North Governorate.                                                                                                                  
Rehabilitation of 160 Greenhouses Destroyed by the Israeli in Gaza Strip 2008-2009
The PAEEP proposes through this project to rehabilitate and maintain 160 greenhouses and in the targeted area. Wire mesh installed in each greenhouse.
The rehabilitation of the greenhouses includes the use of iron props and nylons and the plastic sheets that are needed to cover the greenhouse skeleton. Wire mesh installed at the rehabilitated greenhouses.
PAEEP will select the beneficiaries according to the set selection criteria and in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture
Installation of 30 water desalination units at Kindergarten, Schools and Clinics
This project aims at improving the quality of water for drinking purposes at the proposed schools and enhance the environmental awareness through Providing (30 RO units) in the targeted KGs, schools and clinics with the production of 200-300 lit/day as sensitive targeted group with suitable water for drinking/domestic use, which will improve the health condition among children in the 30 targeted KGs, schools and clinics
“Improvement of potable water quality and enhancement of environmental awareness in and Khan Yunis schools through installation of five water desalination units at the elementary schools
This project aims at providing the Primary, girls/boys schools in (5 units) five units for the schools with the production of 1000 lit/day as sensitive targeted group with suitable water for drinking/domestic use which will improve the health condition among school children. Ten declination units (RO) will be installed at the five schools as recommended by the Ministry of Education. At the same time, this project will provide a campaign of public awareness activities for both the children as well their teachers. In addition, a workshop focusing and highlighting the clean environment as a basic issue of human rights will be conducted at one of the targeted schools just to attract the attention of people ion decision-making to consider this issue in the future projects.