Our Team
YOUSEF
(Founder + Farming engineer)
Yousef Abu Rabea comes from a long line of farmers in Beit Lahia in Northern Gaza, where they grow Red Gold strawberries on land supported by groundwater from the mountains of Hebron in the West Bank. As part of the occupation, dams were built to prevent this groundwater from reaching the Gaza Strip, and today, the genocide has left the farmland all but devastated by artillery-borne white phosphorus, a potent carcinogen that lingers in the soil, poisoning farmers and making their crops unsafe to eat.
LEENA
(Psychology Student + Photographer)
Leena Almadhoun is a psychology student and photographer at the Islamic University in Gaza. She works with UNRWA shelter schools in Beit Lahia, providing services to thousands of young
Gazans who were forced to flee their homes. Her current focus is helping children traumatized by the genocide, many of whom are experiencing social and developmental difficulties.
Our Team Work
Palestinian farmers have been historically targeted by the occupation with heavy restrictions to control the region’s food supply. They now suffer alongside their communities from the effects of displacement, systematic starvation, and violent attacks.
