Agripreneur
Fatima Abu-Khosa 29 years old, specializes in Biochemistry; married and living in Gaza City in a rented apartment for more than two years; her husband works as a taxi driver; she started her small agriprenuer project at her home in 2021, named “home bakery,” selling bakery items (cakes, maamoul, and pastries) to relatives first and then consumers who ordered over…
Agripreneur
Bisan Al-Khawaja 27 years old, married, and an agricultural engineer specializing in animal production. At first, she worked for short-term contracts as a supervisor in the livestock sector; however, due to the lack of employment opportunities, she launched her small agri-enterprise within the bee sub-group, calling it “B Queen.” Her family helped her prepare the cells, harvest, pack, and market;…
Agripreneur
Hadeel Abu Ayesh 26 years old, married, living with her husband and two kids at Al-Maghazi in the Middle area, is a farmer as they practice family farming at the East border, which isn’t easily accessed, unfenced, and vulnerable to Israeli recurrent escalations causing regular crops damage and restrictions for the allowed crops’ items (not exceeding 1 meter); they cultivate…
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The current humanitarian crisis in Gaza is indescribable with an almost complete destruction of infrastructure, hospitals, schools, homes, buildings, agriculture, and heritage farms, and the total loss of clean water, sewerage, transport, and electricity infrastructure. The decimation of the health system leaves health and emergency personnel well beyond their limit and functionality. Disease is rife. Starvation is widespread. Worsening day-by-day. Your…
May 5, 2024
A FEMALE RABBITS BREEDER, REEM IRHIM
A sorrow in the heart of the Palestinian young woman Reem Irhim, during the Israeli bombing on the Gaza Strip, last May, as she was unable, for 12 days, to go up to her house’s roof in the Zeitoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City, to check on her small agri-enterprise and take care of the rabbits she breeding. To see…
THE AGRIPRENEUER AISHA SWARKA WORKS DAY AND NIGHT TO PROVIDE A DECENT LIFE FOR HER FAMILY
The agripreneuer, Aisha Swarkah, has always dreamed of life smiling at her, and making a beautiful reality instead of the bitter reality that she’s living in. To do so, she started her project, cattle farming, in 2006 with help from her sons. She has 2 cows and milks them to produce cheese, then sell the cheese to her relatives and…
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Food Sovereignty in Palestine – a follow up to Gaza Campaign
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