Growing Peace’s Efforts

Taking critical steps to help those in need.

Bringing hydroponic systems to food banks to ensure food security for refugees and asylum seekers.

Partnering with other nonprofit organizations to help create social change from the ground up.

Building awareness for the humanitarian crisis in the midst of COVID and finding ways to help.

  • 79.5 million people around the world have been forcibly displaced—the highest figure ever recorded.

    Source: UNHCR

  • 50% of the world’s refugees are children.

    Source: UNICEF

  • Over 70% of the asylum seeker community in Israel lost their jobs amidst the pandemic.

    Source: HIAS

Why Hydroponics?

Hydroponics systems require no soil and, in turn, significantly less water and land to grow and produce. Therefore, food grown hydroponically is less resource-intensive to make and can be used for either personal consumption or sold off to others.

Hydroponics avoids the environmentally damaging aspects of conventional food production and solves the problem of land scarcity, which is especially extreme in Arab neighborhoods in Israel.

Projects

Domestic

Hope House NYC
Y/YMHA of Washington Heights

International
sindyanna-of-galilee

Edgecombe Residential Treatment Facility

Growing Peace is actively tackling projects to educate, empower and help those in need. Through additional fundraising efforts, Growing Peace can extend humanitarian efforts to bring hydroponics to schools, more food pantries, and other organizations that help those in need.