Project No: (18/2015)
Project Name: Light A Home in Gaza Strip - Phase one
Funded By: Viva Palestina Malaysia.
Implemented By: Construction & Relief Charity Society.
Targeted Area: Gaza City.
Targeted Group: 260 of needy families .
Project Description: Providing LED system for lighting poor families homes in Gaza city during electricity power off, the LED system consists of (Battery, thin wires, 5 switches, 5 LED lights for 4 rooms and 1 for kitchen).

We ask Allah acceptance for all who donated for this project, May Allah bless their good deeds.

Project No: (15/2015)
Project Name: Developing and Rehabilitation small mosque in AL Ummah university.
Funded By: Viva Palestina Malaysia.
Implemented By: Dar A/l Quran Al Karim Wa Sunnah.
In cooperation with: Engineering office in Al Ummah university
Targeted Area: Middle of Gaza Strip - Al Zahra city.
Targeted Group: Prayers from students and academic staff.

We ask Allah acceptance for all who donated for this project, May Allah bless their good deeds.

Our annual campaign is back: "RAMADAN FOOD BASKETS for PALESTINE"  @RM150 (+/- US$40) per family.

You may contribute ANY amount to:

"PERTUBUHAN VIVA PALESTINA MALAYSIA" Account no : 5-64324-601324 Bank : Malayan Banking Berhad (Maybank) Swift Code : MBBEMYKL Bank address : Block C, Damansara Offices Complex, Jalan Dungun, 50490 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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Campaign ends on 10 July 2015

These are some of the women in Gaza we financed as part of our 2014 project to empower women by giving them the means to make a living from running their own businesses. We currently have 18 women in Gaza and 4 in the West Bank under this program.
                                                                                                                                                                                                  

USD 1,500 was given as Islamic loan to this widow in Gaza Strip It has changed her life. She is highly skilled in knitting woollen garments. With the loan she bought some wool balls, and started knitting kids clothes. She promoted it to Palestinian families in Gaza Strip who bought them for their babies. After 3 months she attracted a lot of customers who bought her woollen clothing selection. She now makes USD 300-350 per month. Alhamdulillah! This is one of 50 micro-credit project funded by VPM in collaboration with Rowad Society for social development.

Below is a link to an article that was published in Al Monitor – The Pulse of the Middles East newslatter on VPM’s Islamic loans given to women in Gaza to help them to survive poverty:

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/05/palestine-female-headed-families-good-loans-poverty.html#

Viva Palestina Malaysia is working with University Malaya and Humanitarian Care to organise a conference on BDS at University Malaya in September. The purpose of the conference is to galvanise support for the worldwide BDS movement as a way to force Israel to recognise the rights of Palestinians to freedom, equality and self determination, and ultimately to end the brutal oppressive occupation of Palestine.

Ali Abunimah, Anna Baltzer and Samah Sabawi have confimed their participation, and we hope as many people as possible will join us to learn how all of us here in Malaysia and the Asia-Pacific region can play our part in this cause.

Here's the event page, keep checking for updates! ttps://www.facebook.com/events/418207771637502/

Below is a short video on this project implemented in the East of Gaza.
According to our representative in Gaza, the guy who got a new home said Alhamdulillah about a thousand times.
Click here to watch video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwODewbF29g&sns=em

The Hope campaign by Viva Palestina Malaysia distributed 1,500 cans of milk to the children of Yarmouk. Yarmouk Camp is situated in the district of the city of Damascus and populated byPalestinians. The camp have been deprived of supplies, resulting in hunger, diseases and a high death rate since the Syrian Civil War.

These photos show our shipment of milk arriving for the children and in the video is brother Khalid Abu Samra of the NGO AlKhayriah who have worked in Yarmouk camp for many years.

Click here for video: https://www.facebook.com/alkhayriiah/videos/983125351751745/?pnref=story

Opening of the new computer lab in Al Ummah University, Gaza on Wednesday 15 Apri 2015
To Benefit : 4,000 students
Opening of the new computer lab in UCAS.
To Benefit :4000 students.

Funded by people of Malaysia via Viva Palestina Malaysia

You can watch the opening ceremony for the inauguration of the new lab in UCAS here:
https://youtu.be/G_jSj0N5gwc

VPM Kindergarten Project Phase I
We provided the following:
10 swings
5 laptops
5 LCD projectors.
2 printers
To Benefit : 5 kindergartens in the Gaza Strip.

In phase II, VPM will provide furniture and stationary.

Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Center in Khanyounis, Gaza
A project started by Doctors World Wide Turkey (DWWT) and now in close collaboration with Viva Palestina Malaysia who fund the rehabilitation therapists.
Our ambulances and those from Kia Ora New Zealand are dedicated to this centre.

VPM received a message of appreciation and gratitude from our brothers and sisters in Al Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem for the great efforts in implementing charity projects for Palestinian people in Jerusalem.
- Collective Iftar for prayers in Al Aqsa.
- Distribution food baskets for needy families.
The Al Aqsa society thanks Malaysians for protecting Al Aqsa Waqf.
Watch the video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfOEBHCOkm4

Project No. (14/2015) - G
- Project Name: Scholarship program.
- Funded By: Viva Palestina Malaysia.
- In cooperation with: University College of Applied Sciences (UCAS).
- Targeted Group: 100 university students who lost their homes in the last attack by Israeli forces mainly from air strikes and who can't pay for their university fee Each student gets USD 250 added to their university account, in order to enable them for continue their university for 2014/2015 second semester,
- Targeted area: Gaza Strip.

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Report dated 4 May 2015

Project No. (14/2015): The scholarship project - we have implemented the program in 5 universities and next week we will complete the program for the remaining universities ( Al Azhar, Al Aqsa, and Al Quds open university). This project is very important for Palestinian university students because there is a huge number of students who can't pay for university fees due to the bad economic situation for many families. The new semester will start in September, and we hope to start a fund raising campaign in July /August to fund the new intake of students in September. We hope to make this project an annual program with the proposed campaign name "Donate to Educate" to raise funds for scholarship program or any other related educational programs.

Project No. (1/2015) Micro Financing project - We have completed the assessment and disbursed micro loans to 18 beneficiaries from the 2014 fund. We are now selecting new target groups of beneficiaries to disburse further micro loans under project No (1/2015) amounting to USD 30,000.

Project No. (18/2015) Lighting up A Home in Gaza - Construction and Relief Society invited electrical companies by tender announcements to supply the lights and 5 companies participated in the tender. They selected the best tender and insha Allah we will provide 250 LED systems for 250 families.

1. - West of Gaza City – Gaza Governorate.
2. - East of Gaza City– Gaza Governorate.
3. - South of Gaza City – Gaza Governorate.
4. - Rafah governorate.
5. This makes up the first and second phase and we hope to gather more fund to cover the remaining governorates (Al Wustah, Khanunnes, North of Gaza).

Project No. (3/2015) Renting and furnishing DQWS kindergartens - DQWS completed providing electrical and electronic equipment and also toys and swings to the kindergartens. In the next two weeks, DQWS will provide the furniture (tables, chairs for kids with desks, book shelves and teachers chairs).

Project (02/2015) Provision of health care for needy and poor families - this is implemented by the Orphans House Society. The project is in the process of being implemented and so far 350 patients received help under this project by way of:

1. - Supply of medicine for free.
2. - 50 % to 100 % contribution towards the cost of operating surgeries.
3. - Cash for patients who need money to travel to get their medicine.
4. - Free medical preview for orphans and their families.

Project No. (12/2015) Freelancing day - Media youth Center and Rowad have completed this project and we are awaiting their report. So far, we see that this project is very useful for people looking for work using their skill with the internet, and it gives some hope for post graduate students as we have some programmers earning about USD 1000 per day from this freelance work using their skill on the internet.

Project No. (09/2015) Rehabilitation of poor families' houses - This project focuses on improving the lives of poor families especially those who live in homes with no roof, no bathroom , no kitchen. USD 2,000 can make a big difference to their homes and lives. The beneficiaries of this project are the very poor and not those who lost their homes due to the wars. A short video will be made available soon insha Allah to share with our donors as we hope to raise more funds for this project because these poor families are in dire need of help. When our representative in Gaza visited some of these families, he could not imagine how they survive, some of them sleep on sand.

Project No. (5,6, and 7)/2015) Providing computer labs to universities

1. - UCAS has completed providing the lab and we are awaiting the final report from them.
2. - Al Ummah University has completed providing the lab and have sent us their report.
3. - IUG is in the process of providing the lab as they have asked for special equipment and are now waiting for the supplier to deliver it through the Israeli gate.

Project of (16/2015) Providing Halothani vaporizer - Yafa hospital has contacted the supplier to provide two units of Halothani vaporizer so we are awaiting for them to be delivered.