About Us .

AISHA is an independent non-profit Palestinian woman NGO that seeks to protect, support and empower vulnerable women and children victims of violence psychosocially, legally and economically through facilitating access to protection and support services. Prior to 2009 and since 1996, AISHA used to operate under the name "Women Empowerment Program (WEP)" as the women department within the Gaza Community Mental Health Program (GCHMP). AISHA got registration from the ministry of interior no. 8136 in September 2009 and officially started to work under the name of AISHA as woman organization in 2011.

Ever since its establishment, Aisha has developed and applied a Gender Mainstreaming in all fields of implementation, and worked on the empowerment of vulnerable women and children victims of violence in response to the identified needs in the Women and children portion of the community. AISHA started adopting the individual empowerment approach which takes into consideration the individual differences. Accordingly, it has been successful in achieving substantially higher rates of empowerment. AISHA continued a conduit to reach the targeted beneficiaries.

On the other hand, focus has been given to influence the community agenda through the sensitization of key individuals and organizations towards the issues of domestic violence, gender equality, and feminist issues. Also, AISHA works on mobilizing and lobbying opinion to influence and pressure on decision-making to get a favourable laws and legislation for women and children in all fields.