Santa Fe Maia Project - Water For Gaza

 In cooperation with the Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA), Another Jewish Voice Santa Fe is raising funds to construct water purification and desalination units in UN elementary schools in Gaza through MECA's Maia Project. More information on the Maia Project ("maia" is Arabic for "water") is available here.

We are very pleased to be able to provide such a basic necessity as water and at the same time horrified that Israel has bombed and severely damaged the central Gaza water system and refuses to permit the building supplies into Gaza to repair it. More than 90% of Gaza's water is contaminated, unfit for human consumption, and 80% or more of Gazans do not have regular access to potable water. We recognize that New Mexico often has droughts, but the people of Gaza are thirsty. Only if we force Israel to end the blockade of Gaza will the majority of people of Gaza have drinking water and other basic necessities.

Thanks to your very generous contributions we have raised enough for THREE water units, one at the Bureij Girls Elementary School, an all girls school with 1800 students located in the Bureij Refugee Camp in the center of Gaza; another at the Khan Younis Co-ed Elementary School B with 1900 students; and a third at the Nuseirat Boy's Elementary School.

We are now raising funds for a fourth water purification unit, to continue to provide desperately needed clean drinking water to the children of Gaza. To help, please make a tax-deductible contribution by sending a check payable to MECA, designated "SF MAIA", to Jeffrey Haas, 1433 Seville Rd. Santa Fe, NM 87505.

Thank you for helping to bring clean water to the children of Palestine!