The International Commission for Rights and Development implemented
a project to install a solar energy system for the benefit of the Tawbah
Medical Center - in North Gaza, Palestine, with generous funding from the
International Association of Palestinian Professional Institutions and
Associations, in cooperation with the International Association of Engineers.
This is the second project to install solar energy cells, and this
time the choice was made to the Tawbah health center in the Jabalia Palestinian
refugee camp, while the first project was implemented in the Dar Al-Salam
Hospital in Khan Yunis, and this step confirms the integration between the
Palestinian interior and the outside and expresses the keenness of the funded
institutions to serve Palestinian refugee.
Where the head of the media department of the International
Assembly of Palestinian Professional Institutions and Associations Maher
Shawish stated that making this donation to support the project of installing
solar cells comes to contribute to the continuity of the health sector work in
Gaza, indicating that the group is keen to implement, support and qualify
development projects in Palestine, especially That this initiative strengthens
therapeutic services in the health sector, which is consistent and falls within
the slogan of the gathering that it has raised since its inception “*
Syndicates in the service of the Palestinian community *”.
Shawish emphasized that it is a step to provide support by creating
job opportunities in the health and engineering sectors and sustaining
employment for trade unionists and professionals in light of the high rates of
poverty and unemployment, with the aim of overcoming the difficult conditions
that the Gaza Strip has been going through under the weight of the frequent
power cuts for more than 12 years.
For his part, the head of the International Association of Palestinian
Engineers, Eng. Ibrahim Abu Thuraya, stressed the need for concerted efforts to
provide support to our people, and to divert this support from the relief side
to the developmental side, by creating the surrounding conditions, and taking
the reasons that help them overcome the obstacles they face. And patients from
the Gaza Strip receive the necessary treatment, especially those devices that
need electrical current, such as dialysis machines, intensive care and
emergency rooms.
In his turn, he thanked Professor Ramez Al-Gharabawi, a
representative of the Tawbah Medical Center, for the initiative undertaken by
both the International Association of Palestinian Institutions and Professional
Associations and the International Assembly of Palestinian Engineers, due to
their great humanitarian and developmental impact, and praised all their
programs and activities wherever they are at home and in the diaspora, which
reflects The complementary role played by both groups, as she put it.