About Layan Foundation
We are Layan Foundation – a charity organization focusing on the children affected by the decades-long conflict between Palestine and Israel.
The Story Behind Layan Foundation
The name: ‘Layan Foundation’
It all started when we heard about a little girl, Layan, who passed away due to the unfortunate conflict between Israel and Palestine.
We chose her name, so we can always remember what this foundation stands for. Layan in Arabic means: prosperity of life, soft and gentle.
The symbol: ‘Two flowers intertwined together’
We wanted the symbol of the foundation to be something that was free from any political associations. Something that was beautiful, fragile and represented hope.
The two flowers that you see in our logo aren’t random. The purple flower is a ‘Faqqua, Iris’ which is the national flower of Palestine and the red flower is an ‘Anemone Coronaria’ which is the national flower of Israel.
The flowers in our logo are intertwined to symbolise the interconnection between the children of two nations.
Projects supported by Layan Foundation
All donations are distributed among the following projects to help support children in both Gaza, the West Bank and Israel
If you wish for your donation to go to a specific project, please include its name in the comments when making a donation or send us an email with your request.
CARE Nederland
Layan Foundation cooperates with CARE Nederland to secure immediate needs for Gaza.
Together with its partners from the Dutch Relief Alliance, CARE is ready to provide emergency aid in Gaza. This emergency aid will include the provision of clean drinking water, sanitation, psychosocial support, medical care and cash.
This will reach more than 50,000 affected people. The siege and closure of the Gaza area, in combination with the violence aimed at civilian targets, ensures that Gaza is hardly accessible to humanitarian aid workers.
This cooperation between Layan Foundation, in collaboration with CARE’s Dutch Relief Alliance partners, will last six months.
The Dutch Relief Alliance partners, including CARE, call on all parties in the conflict to protect civilians and provide safe access to humanitarian aid workers.
Theater Day Productions
The Layan Foundation supports Jan Williems, the initiator of this project that has been supporting children in Gaza for 25 years.
Theater Day Productions in Gaza supports children in Gaza in processing war traumas using theater. Jan Willems (initiator) was recently broadcasted by Dutch television. You can watch the interview on YouTube.
Today, I ask you to support Jan in rebuilding his theater initiative that seems destroyed after 25 years of hard work. Jan and Jacky, his partner, are now trying to figure out what is needed first, who are still alive from his crew.
Support the recovery of Theater Day Productions in Gaza. Give new hope to the children of Gaza! This is needed now more than ever before!
Bialik-Rogozin School
Layan Foundation supports Bialik-Rogozin school in Tel-Aviv.
The Bialik-Rogozin School, located in South Tel-Aviv, educates more than 1,150 students from 1st to 12th grades from a wide range of demographic groups.
The school population includes poor third-generation Israeli born families, immigrants and refugees. Almost all families have a low socio-economic status.
The school’s main objective is to provide these underprivileged students with opportunities to develop their potential. The school employs over 100 teachers and volunteers.
We are in search for volunteers with a didactic background and/or experience with education for low socio-economic status groups. Contact us if you’re interested in volunteering with ‘Layan Workgroup Bialik’.
Our “Why”
The key sentiment of the Layan Foundation are the children that are being affected on both sides of the conflict.
Layan Foundation empowers children and youth in Gaza, the West Bank and Israël by providing them with the tools to build more open, inclusive and resilient communities together.
We need more inclusive and empathetic societies prevent from lack of trust and intolerance.
Better educational opportunities effectively contribute to new perspectives for our youth. They increase our tolerance, strengthen our perspectives, make us freer, accelerate our progress, define our individuality, make democracies a reality.
Our main two objectives
Engage with and build Faith and Hope for children in Gaza, West Bank and Israel.
This tragic conflict affects the children in Israel, West Bank and Gaza through no fault of their own for decades now.
The consequences for children in particular are disastrous. While they will soon have to build a new future. Think and build with the children of Israel, West Bank and Gaza.
Your Help
Join hands with Layan Foundation to make a difference!
Your donation goes directly to the active and present aid organizations in and around Gaza. With your donation, you support the immediate import of medical supplies, water and food to Gaza.
You can donate to the following account to support the efforts of Layan Foundation:
Stichting Layan Foundation
COC 92031943
RSIN: 865858238
BANK ACCOUNT: NL33 BUNQ 2101 7966 35
You can also donate by card via our donation form.
Layan Foundation has ANBI status granted by the Tax Authorities. You can check ANBI-registered foundations on the official Dutch Tax Website.
Volunteering
Layan Foundation is a relatively young organization that can only carry out its activities thanks to the efforts of a number of enthusiastic and committed volunteers.
The fact that the foundation relies on volunteers makes it possible to minimize costs as much as possible and to maximize the use of the funds received for the foundation’s objectives and therefore for the children in Israel, Gaza and West Bank.
Volunteer
We are continuously looking for people and organizations who share our objectives with the children in Israel, Gaza and West Bank, and who want to help through our foundation to bring / implement or stimulate developments where they are so desperately needed.
Translation of Layan Foundation website
Layan Foundation is looking for expertise to translate the English website into a German, French and Arabic version.
Layan Foundation Social Media
Layan Foundation is looking for expertise to strengthen its activity in the field of social media. Do you have experience with Social Media and would you like to work with the volunteers of Layan Foundation, let us know! We really need you!
Become an Ambassador
An important volunteer role is that of ambassador. In this role, the task is to go public on the basis of one’s own network and from there to represent the foundation and proclaim its message in a generic manner.
The ambassador is an enthusiastic person who fully supports the ideas and objectives of Layan foundation and is able to spread them as widely as possible.
Layan Foundation currently seeks ambassadors in Germany, France, Austria and Italy.
Interview with Rob Meijer
Call from Rob Meijer, chairman of the Layan Foundation.
In a short while I hope to bother you and ask for your contribution to the educational causes we fund for the children of the West Bank, Israel and Gaza.
Today, I ask you to give generously. CARE delivers mobile clinics, shelter items, water and medical kits with its trucks into Gaza.
Information about Layan Foundation
Layan Foundation is only just getting on the map. The initiative to establish the Layan Foundation was taken long before the outbreak of violence on October 7.
Layan Foundation has its roots in the Netherlands, but aims to expand its board with members who can bring other countries closer to the heart of its objectives.
The board of Layan Foundation
Rob Meijer – Chairman
Jelle Baak – Treasurer
Eduard Berentzen – Secretary
Foundation’s goals
Layan Foundation aims to increase involvement in the fate of children who unintentionally become involved in the conflict.
Layan Foundation focuses on the shared interests of children in the Palestinian territories and Israel. Layan Foundation develops and supports educational and business initiatives that contribute to the future reconstruction of the affected areas.
Spending goals
Donations to Layan Foundation are used to meet the basic needs for food, water and medical supplies.
Layan Foundation does this in collaboration with Care, one of the largest aid organizations with excellent contacts in the countries involved.
Policyplan Layan Foundation 2023-2024
We need alternative stories to combat further polarization and radicalization. That’s why Layan Foundation empowers children and youth in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel by providing them with the tools to help young people build more open, inclusive and resilient communities together.
We need more inclusive and empathetic societies to combat lack of trust and intolerance. Support in realizing better training opportunities and local economic initiatives are an ideally suited tool to contribute to this.
New stories, empathy and inclusivity drive the power of dialogue.
Layan Foundation contributes to building a culture based on dialogue and exchange, thereby bringing children and young people together and inspiring them. The greater the impact of the Layan Foundation, the more promising a future in which new stories get the chance they deserve.
In this way, Layan Foundation increases its impact.
New narratives, inclusivity, empathy and exchange of experiences. More and especially better educational opportunities effectively contribute to new perspectives for children and young people because they increase our tolerance, strengthen our perspectives, make us freer, accelerate our progress, define our individuality, make our democracies a reality.
The foundation aims to:
- improve living conditions, health and future prospects of children and young adults who are affected by the Israeli/Palestinian conflict;
- promote dialogue about the impact on children and young adult of growing up in conflict areas, especially those in Israel and Gaza;
- performe all further actions in accordance with the foregoing related in the broadest sense or could be conducive to this.
The foundation tries to achieve its purpose, among other things, by:
- organizing or supporting emergency relief actions for the purposes referred to in paragraph children and young adults in question, and to promote their ability whether or not to train or study outside Israel or Gaza to follow or complete a study or training;
- raising gifts and donations, or raising other funds and/or subsidies with which the foundation supports existing projects or initiatives can support financially or new projects or initiatives to set up;
- setting up and maintaining one – where necessary by professionals
Detailed policy plan of Layan Foundation
You can read the detailed policy plan of Layan Foundation in Dutch and English language.
Policy plan of Layan Foundation
Beleidsplan Layan Foundation
Statutory documents
Below is the official statutory document of Layan Foundation in English.
For more detailed information, please contact info@layanfoundation.org
