Friends & Family,

We're very excited to be annoucing our initiative, Gaza Girl Coders and are priviledged to have the support of PCRF for our campaign.

Gaza Girl Coders is a non-political, non-sectarian charitable initiative that aims to give girls aged 14-18 practical skills in coding, problem solving, and critical thinking. Its objective is to empower Gaza’s rising generation of women so that they will have the confidence to pursue opportunities in technology. Learning to code enhances career prospects, earning power and socio-economic standing. Training will be provided by UNRWA teachers or by a local full-time qualified IT graduate teacher. We hope with help our initiative in the future could reach both boys and girls in our region regardless of nationality or religion.

The Gaza Girl Coders curriculum will introduce coding and its application in the real world, as well as the mentorship needed to pursue advanced employment. Practical skills will include web design, mobile app development, and modern tools including HTML, CSS, Javascript, and Python.

1st Year Target: impact 1,000 girls aged 14 to 18 who will learn to code in a 40-laptop lab
3 Year Target: impact 10,000 girls by funding three labs in different schools

We (Selma & Mufid) will personally oversee this initiative and contributors will be updated on our progress. We will cover all administrative and other costs related to the initiative, ensuring 100% of contributed funds are applied directly towards our beneficiary school girls. All funds received are under the auspices of the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund through its Gaza Urgent Relief programme, with full transparency and reporting.

How your donation helps:
$100    Funds a month of servicing per lab
$250    Funds a new laptop
$500    Funds a laptop plus software, set-up & initial training
$1,000    Funds a month of salary a local IT graduate lab teacher 
$2,500    Funds one term of tuition per lab, benefiting 320 girls
$7,500    Funds one year of tuition per lab, benefiting 960 girls

Thank you very much for any support you may give us!

Selma & Mufid

The PCRF is a legally-registered non-political, non-profit, 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization established in 1991 by concerned people to address the medical and humanitarian needs of Palestinian and Arab youths in the Middle East. We have provided thousands of children life-saving care based on their need, not on religion, gender, nationality or sect.

The main objective of the PCRF is to identify and treat every child in the Middle East in need of specialized surgery not available to them locally. We locate, sponsor and run international, volunteer medical missions to the Middle East, in additional to locating free medical care abroad for children who cannot be adequately treated in the Middle East. The PCRF  is the main organization regularly sending injured and sick Arab children to North and South America, the Middle East and Europe for free care that is not available to them there. Since 1991 over 1,000 children have been abroad for millions of dollars of donated care, and over 10,000 have had complex surgery by our visiting medical missions to the region. The PCRF has been awarded the top 4-star rating by Charity Navigator for fiscal management, while being able to treat more kids than any other charity in the Middle East.