Gaza Farmers Give Back by Sharing with Those Less Fortunate

Ahmed Zoerob, a Gaza farmer, walks along a rutted road to a compound of tiny, prefab housing units that serve as temporary shelters for hundreds of families displaced by the 2014 war. He carries a box that says “From Poor Farmer to Poor Family” and it is full of beautiful, fresh produce from his farm.

Ahmed is one of 120 farmers in the Khan Younis area of Gaza participating in ANERA’s farmland restoration project, which is helping to bring war-damaged farms back to life. This is the farmers’ first full harvest after the war and it is bountiful for many of them. They are grateful for their good fortune and, though living very humbly themselves, the farmers know that things could be much worse. So they decided to pay it forward by providing some relief for Gaza families who have been less fortunate.

“We want to say thank you for what we have and share it – even if it’s not a lot – with families whose homes were destroyed during the [2014] war,” says Ahmed. He and his fellow farmers are aware that families and others left homeless by the war are grappling with another harsh winter in flimsy shelters.

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