‘Hakini’ (“tell me”, in Arabic) is an online platform that provides mental health therapy support for people in Palestine. The recent attacks on Gaza bombarded the mental health of Palestinians. Since then, our team has received hundreds of messages from people in Gaza seeking therapy support to help heal their trauma. Today, we have a waiting list of more than 150 people who individually reached out to Hakini seeking help and psychological support. Trauma, sleeping disorders, anxiety and depression are among the most common psychological challenges that people in Gaza are facing after the ceasefire.

Gaza's population has among the highest percentage of mental health disorders among the world. To make things worse, access to therapy is extremely difficult.  This is exasperated by the fact that  number of therapists and mental health professionals is limited due to the bad infrastructure that does not allow people from Gaza to easily reach out for psychological intervention.

The recent attacks on Gaza dramatically increased the need for therapy support as it left the Palestinians people in Gaza with further psychological challenges.

What is our plan?

Hakini is going to provide online therapy support for free to people from Gaza, this will include two ways of support:

1. Connecting Palestinians in Gaza to therapists to receive one-on-one sessions - Our online platform identifies the need of people seeking help and then recommends them with three therapists that would be a good match to help them in their therapy journey.

2. Workshops for groups of 12 participants - These workshops will be divided into two phases. The first session is informative, where people raise awareness about the mental health challenges that they face. The second phase will be a practical and cathartic session, in which people apply practical self-care tools that will help them to independently overcome the common psychological challenges that they face with minimal intervention from a human therapist.

How can you help?  

Hakini is raising $32,000 to address the need of people who already reached out to Hakini to help support their therapy and healing journey. 
You can donate to help us provide 500 one-on-one therapy sessions and 25 workshops for 300 participants for free for affected people in Gaza. The cost per session is an average $45, and any donation amount is appreciated.

You can also spread the word and share this campaign with people you think would be interested in supporting this crucial project. Feel free to share it with your friends, organizations and businesses that might be interested to donate and provide therapy support for people in Gaza.

Here is the breakdown of the milestones that we are planning to reach in this campaign. The full number of sessions that we would like to offer is 500 and 25 workshops, at the beginning we are planning to cover the second milestones as described below: