Your Help in Action

Delivering in Emergencies

With your help, our team can prepare and deliver projects to use in emergencies - during and after bombardments, COVID-like medical emergencies and environmental crises.

The team responded to COVID with setting up a telephone hotline for struggling families and providing other online therapeutic support. The Days of Joy storyteller recorded stories online and indoor exercise videos were created for a YouTube channel.

PTC telephone hotline during the Covid-19 pandemic

The support to families from the PTC(UK) team in Gaza included guidance on:

How to manage and cope with acute psychological stress.
How to provide essential home needs, in particular during the holy month of Ramadan.
How to provide medicine that the Health Ministry cannot offer due to a shortage in the Ministry’s stock.
How to find or create health supplies such as sanitisers, masks and gloves.
How to deal with the children in the house for many hours when they do not go to school.

Broadcasting our support via the Internet. The PTC (UK) team innovating how we deliver our services during the Covid-19 crisis

Building Research Networks

With your help, we can build networks of research and solidarity with those in the field of mental health. PTC(UK) organises webinars (Talk to Gaza) with its supporters and the Gaza team to share their work and experiences and to explore topics of interest. There is an Arabic network of mental health specialists running online courses hosted by PTC(UK).

From 2020 to 2024 Birmingham University has linked with PTC(UK) and other organisations to conduct a research project called Rights4Time. This has also produced a training programme for the Gaza team in data collection and analysis.

In 2015, PTC(UK) worked with Kingston University, Palestine-UK Social Work Network and the UK-Palestine Mental Health Network to organise a conference on Trauma and Resilience. PTC(UK) gives talks at conferences and universities.