Poverty and Hope Appeal

In 2025, 180 children received informal education in three tent schools in north and central Gaza, re-establishing numerous times when tents had to be moved due to bombardments or evacuation orders. And so far in 2026, through our temporary learning spaces programme with Taawon, 400 children have been receiving education in Gaza City and North Gaza, with particularly high uptake from girls. Classes are running in two shifts per day, enabling more children to be able to access a vital education. Crucially, academic education is combined with psychosocial support, providing safe spaces and group sessions for children to share their worries and anxieties. 

Sadly, Gazan children also have to educate themselves on more than just maths and Arabic. Since 2023, over 200,000 tonnes of explosive material has been dropped on the Gaza Strip. Estimates are that around 10% of bombs failed to detonate, leaving potentially thousands of tonnes of deadly explosives littered across the Gaza strip as families return to the rubble of their homes. Amos is partnered with local Gazan partner Ajyal Association to deliver a 12 month education programme for children and communities on the dangers of unexploded ordnance.

This programme will reach 100,000, children with safety education delivered by trained community staff. It will also establish five community initiatives in displacement camps, each engaging around 100 participants, create five murals on walls to raise awareness in areas housing over 500,000 displaced people, and produce social media awareness videos to further educate children and families about the risks under the rubble. 

The teaching is strongly Christian based: the day starts with prayers, all children are taught that Jesus is Lord and the parents understand this.

Despite being so new, the school achieved fourth place in the National Examinations last year, which is a testament to the quality of education and the dedication of Conjesta and her team to the children. Secondary education in Tanzania is in English, yet most children speak either their tribal language or Swahili. The school teaches in English and so provides every opportunity for students to flourish and move on to secondary education.

The school is fee paying, although sponsorship is available and the team work to find ways to fund the children of pastors and other employees of the Diocese. This is a huge encouragement to the pastors who are not paid, live in great poverty and work in hard circumstances as they teach the love of Christ in mostly Islamic communities. 

The school is now completing a Boarding House for the pastors’ children, who come from parishes many hours’ drive away, so funding will be needed for the running of this facility as well as the fees of the children. 

Projects planned for 2027 are a new nursery class, taking children from two years old, and the construction of a new toilet block, which is necessary as the school roll expands. 

The funds raised so far have enabled the drilling of a deep borehole. More is needed to complete the project and install a solar powered pump at St James Anglican Church, providing clean, reliable water for drinking, sanitation, livestock, and small scale irrigation. The total cost is around $6,000 USD, and thanks to last year’s Poverty & Hope Appeal, 40% has already been funded.

We now need help to raise the remaining amount so this life changing project can raise the water from the ground. Clean water will transform health, education, and livelihoods for the whole community.