Family Support
Children’s recovery extends beyond clinical settings into everyday family life.
The goal of the PHRC includes accompanying families in their journey beyond crisis towards steadfastness.
Through the Children’s Village in Gaza, PHRC conducted home visits to families and caregivers to introduce trauma-coping mechanisms, while developing practical communication toolkits like "Say This, Don’t Say That."
These home visits and consultative evaluations focused on assessing the emotional environment at home, providing parents with clear, accessible communication strategies for responding to children affected by trauma, war, and forced displacement. This continuous support loop helps caregivers release emotional distress and release systemic panic, actively strengthening positive, supportive family relationships within everyday home settings.
At the Children’s Hub in Cairo, the PHRC delivered 30 structured caregiver workshops aimed at strengthening parenting skills in the context of traumatic experiences and building emotional resilience.
Families and caregivers were equipped with practical strategies for emotional regulation, understanding trauma responses in children and adolescents, and fostering safe, supportive home environments during periods of displacement and uncertainty.
Our goal is to help families move beyond crisis and build lasting resilience.
Arwa is a mother of four whose husband was martyred. Forcibly displaced from Gaza, she arrived at the Children’s Hub in Cairo experiencing profound grief and emotional distress. Through ten individual Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) sessions focused on emotional healing and rebuilding confidence, she gradually regained stability and hope. By the end of her therapeutic journey, Arwa had strengthened her coping skills, rebuilt confidence in her parenting role, and re-established a sense of control over her future. Reflecting on her experience, she described herself as “a stronger mother by choice.”
The humanitarian conditions resulting from constant bombardments and forced displacement severely impede access to essential resources for survival.
To support families’ resilience facing these severe challenges, the PHRC implemented an emergency response intervention to provide clean water and fuel to approximately 1,500 families forcibly displaced across five displacement camps in northern Gaza.
Heavy rain and winter storms constitute an additional challenge to life in Gaza. Protecting children from harsh weather conditions helps reduce stress on families and supports their physical and psychological health.
As part of our seasonal response efforts, the PHRC provided warm winter clothing to more than 500 children living in displacement settings. This initiative helped protect children from extreme weather while preserving dignity and safety throughout the winter months.
Families face severe financial burdens, including limited access to cash. To help families navigate the economic crisis of war and maintain a degree of stability, the PHRC has provided direct cash assistance to 150 families forcibly displaced in Gaza.
This support enabled parents and caregivers to meet urgent household needs, to make informed decisions for their families, and to maintain a greater sense of dignity and control during the most challenging circumstances.
The persistent and ongoing indiscriminate bombardment in Gaza has critically injured thousands of people while targeting medical facilities and healthcare workers. Lifesaving care has become nearly impossible to perform and inaccessible for the majority of the wounded.
During the early stages of the genocide in 2023, the PHRC worked with the Egyptian Red Crescent to deliver urgently needed medical supplies and equipment to hospitals in Gaza who were experiencing severe shortages. Working closely with procurement teams and trusted suppliers in Egypt, the PHRC supported the delivery of two trucks of medical items, including syringes, airway management equipment, ultrasound devices, orthopaedic instruments, tourniquets, and other essential supplies requested by Gaza’s healthcare facilities. The shipments prioritized the most urgent medical needs identified by hospitals in Gaza and were transferred through the Rafah border crossing during the first temporary ceasefire between end of November and beginning of December 2023.