A close-up of a large plastic container being filled with clean water from a yellow hose. Several other jerrycans and people’s hands are visible around, showing the effort of collecting safe water.

Water for Gaza – Every Drop Counts

Children and a man gather around water containers in Gaza as clean water is distributed from a yellow hose into jerrycans and buckets, with large white water tanks on a truck in the background.

Standing together for Gaza

Help us raise £250,000 in 12 weeks to provide life-saving water to people in Gaza.

What is the Water for Gaza Appeal?

The people of Northern Ireland have always stood with communities around the world in times of crisis. Let’s show that same compassion and solidarity now for the people of Gaza and help save lives. 

We are calling on organisations, businesses and institutions in Northern Ireland to help raise £250,000 in just 12 weeks for our Water for Gaza Appeal to provide life-saving access to clean drinking water, and further supporting communities by rehabilitating sanitation and hygiene facilities.

A collective call to action

Together, we can provide safe, clean water and sanitation support for three months to up to 21,000 people desperately in need in Gaza City and other parts of Gaza.

Why now?

Lack of access to clean water is contributing further to deaths that are 100% preventable. Nine out of 10 people in Gaza no longer have access to safe drinking water. Famine has now been confirmed in Gaza City, and people are dying from dehydration and disease. Almost one in every three children under the age of five is suffering acute malnutrition. Hospitals are overwhelmed, and basic sanitation has broken down. We cannot wait any longer. Now is the time to help save lives.

Boys in Gaza collect clean water from large white tanks on a truck, filling yellow

Concern’s impact in Gaza

Right now, Concern Worldwide is working with our trusted partners on the ground to deliver critical water, sanitation, and hygiene support across Gaza. Even with restrictions in place, we are successfully trucking thousands of litres of clean water daily to vulnerable communities facing severe shortages. We have also installed a life-saving water filtration system in Gaza City’s only functioning children’s hospital, ensuring continuous access to clean and safe water for medical treatments and daily care to up to 350 patients every day. This vital intervention is already reducing infection risks and saving lives, demonstrating the effectiveness and urgency of scaling up these vital water services across the region.

People gather on a beach with debris scattered around. A child and several adults wrapped in blankets walk among the damaged shelters under a cloudy sky.

Why Concern Worldwide?

We are a trusted Irish-born humanitarian organisation with 57 years of global impact in some of the world’s most conflicted and fragile places, with a proven ability to respond fast, effectively and safely in conflict and disaster zones. A member of the UK’s Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC), in 2017, we became the first Irish organisation to be certified against the Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability. Last year, we reached: • 27.3M people in 27 countries through our emergency and development programmes. • 5M through our health and nutrition programmes • 16.8M in 50 emergencies in 22 countries From rapid emergency response to our innovative programming in health and nutrition, livelihoods and education, we go to the hardest-to-reach places to make sure no-one is left behind.

How to get involved?

1. Register your support

Click here to find out more about how to help

2. Make a donation or set up your own fundraiser

To set up your own page simply click on the orange start fundraising button.

3. Share your page

Share the link with work colleagues, other companies, suppliers, family and friends.

4. Make a difference

Every drop counts, and every £1 you raise will help us deliver safe water, and sanitation facilities to the most vulnerable communities in Gaza.

Crowds of people walk through a wide street filled with rubble and debris, flanked by heavily damaged and destroyed buildings in a war-torn city.

Every pound raised really does make a difference

£1,000: Safe water for 160 people for one month
£5,000: Safe water for 2,000 people for two weeks
£10,000: Five toilets and five water storage tanks for 1,800 people
£25,000: Safe water for 8,000 people for one month
£100,000: Full sanitation rehabilitation and water storage for 21,000 people

Thank you for your support. If you have any questions that cannot be answered by our FAQs (link) or would like to discuss your plans or request additional fundraising materials please email [email protected]