AFSC – Quaker Service Organization is a non-profit international organization founded in 1917, it works with people from various faiths who are committed to the principles of nonviolence and social justice. It seeks in its work and witness to draw on the transforming power of love, human and divine. Quaker s work in Palestine dates back to the year of 1949 when the AFSC offered support and help for Palestinian refugees flooded to Gaza after the 1948 war. The Quakers work over the past decades continued through its contribution in providing the Palestinian community with opportunities for a better life. This includes services of education, rural development and providing legal aids to the affected groups experiencing difficult conditions.

AFSC -Middle East Regional Office (MERO)

AFSC – Middle East Regional Office in Amman, coordinates locally implemented projects throughout the region and provides support and supervision on the sustainable community development programs, youth empowerment, relief and reconstruction in times of crises. In the meantime, the regional coordinators conduct preliminary studies on which initiatives, programs, networking and actions at the regional level can be based.

Palestine Youth Program (PYP)

Palestine Youth Program (PYP) was founded in 1995, both in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip aiming at providing technical assistance to NGOs leaders and the youth they serve from Gaza and WB. The PYP challenges the consequences of all forms of isolation and discrimination imposed on youth in the Palestinian territories, the program enabled youth to become proactive agents of social change by engaging them in the twin s processes of democratization and community development, through its support of several projects in Gaza and West Bank.

The QPYP supports the following themes in partnership with youth NGOs and volunteers:

- Preserving the environment and heritage.

- Sustainable development of community in developing its needs.

- Capacity building and skills development.

- Youth Rehabilitation to address the general public and international networking.

- Polarization of advocacy.

- The use of technology in education to help overcoming the special needs and disabilities.