This is all Impossible Light has done together in Gaza:
Autumn ‘24
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Tents (October 2024)
Providing and restoring shelters is one of the most essential and urgent needs for displaced people in disaster and war zones. Shelters are one of the primary factors in ensuring families’ survival. They also provide a sense of security, giving people a small place to call home, no matter how simple, where they can take refuge with their families.
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Holy Feet (Autumn '24)
The shoes project may seem simple and a secondary need, but the repeated complaints and urgent appeals at this time highlight the severe rise in shoe prices. Most people, including children, are walking barefoot, exposing themselves to injuries and infections due to this shortage.
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Clothes (Winter '24)
This is a project that focused solely on the precious children who inspired us to launch our broader campaign to support their struggling families, who have found themselves with no means to secure a safe and basic life for their little ones. One of our initial ideas was to provide winter clothing for children, but we couldn’t prioritize it at first because it was less urgent than shelter or more costly and less available than other essentials like shoes.
Winter ‘24
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Milk and Diapers
We tried to help the youngest children at a time when Gaza City is experiencing a severe shortage and an unimaginable rise in the prices of essential baby necessities, such as milk and diapers. Here, our heroes stepped in—driven by compassion and a deep passion to save these infants who rely entirely on formula feeding—by providing them with milk and diapers to make their lives possible.
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Glasses
One day, I (Allaa) received a message from Mohammed (my best friend) who makes our projects real on the ground. A child named Ahmed had made a request. Mohammed sent me a video of Ahmed, showing me how his broken glasses were held together with a wire. I could see in his face that he was struggling to ask for something, but he truly hoped for a new pair of glasses.
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Shoeless
A similar project to our first shoe project, but on a larger scale and with greater facilitation. This serves as an example that not all merchants exploit crises for selfish gain—some are genuinely committed to being part of a charitable cause and setting an example of ethical business conduct. We received an offer from a merchant who, upon hearing about our shoe project, expressed his willingness to provide us with a large quantity of shoes at a special price. Additionally, he generously waived his usual transaction commission, which typically ranges from 25% to 35%.
Early 2025
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Pita (March '25)
A period of pause felt devastating for us, as we were unable to carry out projects to help children and their families due to a lack of resources. During that time, we were still able to assist some families and urgent cases with specific medical needs, as we always do without interruption. However, we were also eager and hopeful to launch new projects that would reach a larger number of families by providing them with a variety of essential supplies.
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Helping individuals
In addition to sharing food or diapers or etc. with large groups of people in the “tent neighborhood” as we call the area in Al-Mawasi where Mohammed lives, we also respond to individual people and families when we are made aware of special needs the require going above and beyond.
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Vegetable Packages (Spring '25)
Our friends during Ramadan need more attention in terms of nutrition and ensuring a basic supply of vegetables that are used daily to prepare their meals. After discussions, it was agreed that distributing vegetable parcels would be sufficient to meet a family’s needs for more than a week to ten days. This is particularly important in this critical period of food scarcity and significantly rising prices.
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Eid! (Children's activities and toys giveaway) ... Spring '25
As we always say, the most beautiful part of these families is their children. During these days, you see children dressed in their Eid clothes, each of them having inevitably received their Eid gift—usually a toy suited to their age. They run around with other children, playing with pure joy, caring for nothing else but the excitement and happiness that fills these festive days.
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Clean water & bathrooms
In response to the urgent humanitarian needs of displaced families in Gaza, our team has launched a vital initiative to provide clean water access and install additional sanitary bathrooms in overcrowded tent areas.
Late 2025-Early 2026
Blankets (January 2026)
Coloring Books (January)
ORANGES! and Veggies & chicken wings (Feb ‘26)
Sweets & children’s gifts for Eid (March ‘26)
Summer Clothes (June ‘26)
In 2026…
A protein other than lentils (February)
Solar energy system for a grouping of tents (March ‘26)
Another Round of Diapers (May ‘26)
Ramadan Celebration Parcels (Feb ‘26)
Eid Celebration! (March ‘26)
Mohammed (pictured above, center, with his wife Walaa by his side…and other members of the community around him)~he wrote this message for all of us:
Hello friends,
Ramadan ended a few days ago, and the days of Eid that we mentioned in our previous updates have also passed. After more than two weeks of planning, preparation, and organization, we were able to deliver the Eid season exactly as we had envisioned. However, the impact on the displaced people and the children in the camp was far greater than we had ever expected.
The children had not experienced celebrations like this in the past three years, and parents had not seen their children in such a joyful state during that time either. I fully expected the children’s happiness and enjoyment, but what truly amazed me—and something I did not anticipate—was how much the fathers and mothers also enjoyed the celebration. They immersed themselves with their children and lived truly special moments together.
Because the past days were filled with activities and events, allow me to provide you with a detailed summary of what the Impossible Light team accomplished:
Ten days before Eid, we purchased gifts for the children to be distributed after the Eid celebration.
On the night before Eid, we packed and prepared the sweets, which took us the entire night until dawn.
At 7:00 a.m. on the first day of Eid, we began distributing the sweets and finished by 9:00 a.m. Then, at 10:00 a.m., we started the celebration, which continued until the afternoon and concluded with the distribution of gifts to the children.
We were able to prepare 660 gifts for the children. We distributed part of them to the children who attended the celebration, then moved to a nearby camp and distributed the remaining gifts to the children there.
Each gift included chocolate, natural juice, biscuits, snacks, a lollipop, and a piece of candy for the children.
As for the sweets distributed to the families in the camp, we reached 300 families, with each family receiving 800 grams of sweets. We also included families from our camp and the neighboring camp.
Thanks to your support and assistance, we are growing significantly. Each time, we are able to reach more people, expand to new places, support new families, and bring joy to more children.
Because of your support, the children were able to experience a day they are still talking about with great joy until now.
And thanks to you—the Impossible Light—we will continue to illuminate dark places, revive withered flowers, and color days and moments with joy, humanity, and love.
Thank you for everything.
Eid Al-Adha Beef (May ‘26)
