Our Story
The Stay Human project emerged in Summer 2024 as a grassroots mutual aid initiative spanning Europe, Egypt, and Palestine. What began as emergency crowdfunding for food, water, and essential supplies for families in Jabalia, Northern Gaza, quickly evolved into something more powerful: education as a form of hope.
When schools couldn't reopen for a new academic year, our Palestinian team members took action. They transformed part of a damaged building into a classroom, recruited teachers, and gathered educational supplies. By September 2024, the Stay Human school was born—offering Arabic, English, and Mathematics to 120 children in the community, around 30 of whom have been orphaned due to Israel's relentless attacks and blockade.
Our Story
The Stay Human project emerged in Summer 2024 as a grassroots mutual aid initiative spanning Europe, Egypt, and Palestine. What began as emergency crowdfunding for food, water, and essential supplies for families in Jabalia, Northern Gaza, quickly evolved into something more powerful: education as a form of hope.
When schools couldn't reopen for a new academic year, our Palestinian team members took action. They transformed part of a damaged building into a classroom, recruited teachers, and gathered educational supplies. By September 2024, the Stay Human school was born—offering Arabic, English, and Mathematics to 120 children in the community, around 30 of whom have been orphaned due to Israel's relentless attacks and blockade.
Our Mission
We believe in community-led solutions built on solidarity, not charity. Our mission is three-fold:
Sustain our current school by continuing to fund our rented building and support our three dedicated teachers until formal education resumes in Gaza.
Expand our vision to create a flexible school camp with tent classrooms for different age groups, engaging 10 teachers and providing education to 180 students.
Provide essential humanitarian support by distributing food, water, baby supplies, and addressing sanitation needs based on community priorities and changing circumstances.
Beyond academic learning, these spaces provide a psychologically supportive environment where children can rebuild friendships, play, and heal.
We believe in community-led solutions built on solidarity, not charity. Our mission is three-fold:
Sustain our current school by continuing to fund our rented building and support our three dedicated teachers until formal education resumes in Gaza.
Expand our vision to create a flexible school camp with tent classrooms for different age groups, engaging 10 teachers and providing education to 180 students.
Provide essential humanitarian support by distributing food, water, baby supplies, and addressing sanitation needs based on community priorities and changing circumstances.
Beyond academic learning, these spaces provide a psychologically supportive environment where children can rebuild friendships, play, and heal.
Our Mission
We believe in community-led solutions built on solidarity, not charity. Our mission is three-fold:
Sustain our current school by continuing to fund our rented building and support our three dedicated teachers until formal education resumes in Gaza.
Expand our vision to create a flexible school camp with tent classrooms for different age groups, engaging 10 teachers and providing education to 180 students.
Provide essential humanitarian support by distributing food, water, baby supplies, and addressing sanitation needs based on community priorities and changing circumstances.
Beyond academic learning, these spaces provide a psychologically supportive environment where children can rebuild friendships, play, and heal.
Our Approach
As a mutual aid collective, we:
Rely on Palestinian leadership in decision-making
Respond dynamically to community needs
Distribute resources based on priority needs
Provide ongoing humanitarian support alongside education
Operate with transparency and accountability
Our Approach
As a mutual aid collective, we:
Rely on Palestinian leadership in decision-making
Respond dynamically to community needs
Distribute resources based on priority needs
Provide ongoing humanitarian support alongside education
Operate with transparency and accountability
"They want to make a desert and call it peace. The civilised world’s silence is more deafening than the explosions covering the city like a shroud of death and terror. Stay Human."
— Vittorio Arrigono, writing from Gaza on the 27th december 2008
"They want to make a desert and call it peace. The civilised world’s silence is more deafening than the explosions covering the city like a shroud of death and terror. Stay Human."
— Vittorio Arrigono, writing from Gaza on the 27th december 2008