Government Office for Slovenians Abroad of the Republic of Slovenia

09/12/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 09/13/2024 01:20

Slovenia to receive a group of injured Palestinian children for rehabilitation

The Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs today signed a contract with Caritas Slovenia for the implementation of a project to rehabilitate wounded Palestinian children in Slovenia and provide humanitarian aid in Gaza. In cooperation with the Danilo Türk Foundation, the project also aims to provide medical and psychosocial rehabilitation for victims of the war in Gaza.

Caritas Slovenia, a strategic partner of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovenia in the field of international humanitarian aid, has prepared a medical rehabilitation project, in cooperation with the Danilo Türk Foundation, for eight to ten seriously injured children from Gaza. The injured children, whose numbers continue to increase, will receive intensive treatment, including surgery, rehabilitation, prosthetics and other advanced medical devices, at the University Rehabilitation Institute of the Republic of Slovenia - URI Soča, and, if necessary, at other medical institutions in Slovenia.

In Gaza, more than 1.1 million people are suffering from severe food shortages and hunger, most of them children who are on the brink of survival. In addition to rehabilitating children in Slovenia, the project will provide financial support to nearly 1,000 of the most vulnerable internally displaced families. This will give more than 5,000 people from Gaza the means to purchase food and other basic necessities.

The project is supported by the Slovenian Government with EUR 700,000.