Money Raised: $8,837.38 

TP4PCRF Chicago Marathon 2020 Safad Hospital

For 11 years, Team Palestine for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund (TP4PCRF) has participated as a force that runs the Bank of America Chicago Marathon to help raise funds for various projects and centers to help children in Palestine and the Middle East. TP4PCRF runs because #everymilesavesachild. This year, we are raising funds for the Safad Hospital for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.

The Safad Hospital is located in the Badawi Camp near Tripoli in northern Lebanon. It serves the camp's refugee population, but currently it lacks the supplies and equipment needed to support the people who rely on its services, people who are largely Palestinian refugees that experience chronic poverty, political instability, and unsanitary living conditions. Furthermore, a severe shortage of neonatal equipment, such as monitors and incubators, has also led to unnecessary infant deaths. The PCRF is raising funds to address the shortage of medical needs and to enable Safad hospital to offer more free services and to saves newborns' life who are born with the need for a Neonatal Care Unit.

The PCRF was established in 1991 to help address the medical and humanitarian crisis facing Palestinian youth in the Middle East and has become the largest provider of free, specialized surgical care to all children regardless of their race, religion or ethnic background. 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 and is 501(c)3 tax exempt.  Please visit www.pcrf.net and www.teampalestine.com for more information on PCRF and Team Palestine for PCRF.