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A Place of Shelter, Dignity and Daily Bread

Across Gaza, the most basic parts of daily life, a safe place to sleep, clean water, a loaf of bread have become some of the hardest things to find. With a fragile ceasefire and a blockade still restricting food, fuel and medicine, families who have lost their homes search every day for what they need simply to survive. In the middle of all this, the Gaza Mercy Hub has become a rare and steady source of hope.

We are pleased to share an important update: the first stage of the Gaza Mercy Hub has now been completed, and it is already home to 720 people who had nowhere else to turn.

What Is the Gaza Mercy Hub?

The Mercy Hub is a dedicated village in South Gaza, built by Al Mustafa Welfare Trust and our trusted partners to shelter and protect displaced families. It is far more than a camp. Within its grounds, families find safe shelter, clean water, food and perhaps most importantly, a renewed sense of dignity at a time when almost everything around them feels uncertain.

Stage One: A Completed Shelter for 720 People

The first stage of the project focused on building the hub itself and opening its doors to those in greatest need. That stage is now complete, and the facility currently shelters 720 residents.

Caring for them does not stop there. Providing food and water for every person living in the hub remains a daily, ongoing need. Each family depends on the Mercy Hub for the essentials, daily bread, safe drinking water, food packs, and meals for suhoor and iftar, restoring a little stability where life has been turned upside down.

Stage Two: A Bakery, and Fresh Bread Every Single Day

With the shelter established, attention now turns to the second stage of the project: setting up the Mercy Hub bakery. Once it is running, the bakery will supply fresh bread to the families in the hub every single day, throughout the entire year.

This matters more than it might first seem. Across Gaza, the bakeries that once fed whole neighbourhoods have shut down, and bread has become scarce. A working bakery inside the Mercy Hub means a reliable, dignified supply of one of the most basic and comforting foods there is, warm bread on the table each day, without the desperate daily search.

The full bakery costs around £40,000 to establish, and every contribution brings that goal, and a year-round supply of fresh bread closer to reality.

How Your Support Reaches Families in the Mercy Hub

Every part of the Mercy Hub is made possible by your generosity. Here are some ways your donation helps families directly:

• 365 days of bread for a family: £300 (or £25 a month) feeds a family from the displacement camps through the hub’s bakery for a full year.

• Mercy Hub bread bakery: £4,000 goes towards the £40,000 bakery, helping restore a daily supply of fresh bread.

• Family food pack: £55 provides a family with nutritious, long-lasting food to last a whole month.

• Clean water: £200 (or £17 a month) helps deliver safe drinking water to families facing severe shortages.

• Iftar & suhoor meals: £50 provides 20 hot, wholesome meals.

• Sponsor a tent: £2,500 gives a displaced family privacy, protection and shelter within the hub.

• Running a medical clinic: £1,000 (or £84 a month) supports a medical clinic inside the hub, bringing healthcare closer to those who need it.

Many of these donations are Zakat-applicable, which means your obligatory giving can directly support displaced families living in the Mercy Hub.

Part of a Wider Gaza Response

The Mercy Hub is one piece of Al Mustafa Welfare Trust’s broader work in Gaza. To date, that response has reached 250,000 people, delivered food packs to 27,000 families, provided medical supplies to 43,000 people, and is supplying safe drinking water to 20,000 people every day. Working alongside partners with permission and access on the ground, we are able to keep aid moving to families in some of the most difficult conditions imaginable.

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GET INVOLVED WITH AL-MUSTAFA WELFARE TRUST

A Place of Shelter, Dignity and Daily Bread

What Is the Gaza Mercy Hub?

Children have a place to feel safe again. Parents have somewhere to rest. Families can begin to rebuild a small measure of normal life after losing so much.

Stage One: A Completed Shelter for 720 People

Stage Two: A Bakery, and Fresh Bread Every Single Day

How Your Support Reaches Families in the Mercy Hub

• 365 days of bread for a family: £300 (or £25 a month) feeds a family from the displacement camps through the hub’s bakery for a full year.

• Mercy Hub bread bakery: £4,000 goes towards the £40,000 bakery, helping restore a daily supply of fresh bread.

• Family food pack: £55 provides a family with nutritious, long-lasting food to last a whole month.

• Clean water: £200 (or £17 a month) helps deliver safe drinking water to families facing severe shortages.

• Iftar & suhoor meals: £50 provides 20 hot, wholesome meals.

• Sponsor a tent: £2,500 gives a displaced family privacy, protection and shelter within the hub.

• Running a medical clinic: £1,000 (or £84 a month) supports a medical clinic inside the hub, bringing healthcare closer to those who need it.

Part of a Wider Gaza Response

A Mercy That Does Not Pause

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GET INVOLVED WITH AL-MUSTAFA WELFARE TRUST

A Place of Shelter, Dignity and Daily Bread

What Is the Gaza Mercy Hub?

Children have a place to feel safe again. Parents have somewhere to rest. Families can begin to rebuild a small measure of normal life after losing so much.

Stage One: A Completed Shelter for 720 People

Stage Two: A Bakery, and Fresh Bread Every Single Day

How Your Support Reaches Families in the Mercy Hub

• 365 days of bread for a family: £300 (or £25 a month) feeds a family from the displacement camps through the hub’s bakery for a full year.

• Mercy Hub bread bakery: £4,000 goes towards the £40,000 bakery, helping restore a daily supply of fresh bread.

• Family food pack: £55 provides a family with nutritious, long-lasting food to last a whole month.

• Clean water: £200 (or £17 a month) helps deliver safe drinking water to families facing severe shortages.

• Iftar & suhoor meals: £50 provides 20 hot, wholesome meals.

• Sponsor a tent: £2,500 gives a displaced family privacy, protection and shelter within the hub.

• Running a medical clinic: £1,000 (or £84 a month) supports a medical clinic inside the hub, bringing healthcare closer to those who need it.

Part of a Wider Gaza Response

A Mercy That Does Not Pause

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