Organization’s history, background and mission:‎
PSCF was officially established in l999 as a Palestinian, national, non-governmental ‎organization to promote education, women rights, water and environmental health, agricultural ‎and youth development and human rights. The purpose of Palestine Save the Children ‎Foundation (PSCF) is to enable the women and children in Palestinian refugee camps and ‎other disadvantaged Communities in Gaza/West Bank to develop and improve their lives ‎economically, socially, and educationally and health by working in partnership with their ‎families and with the communities in which they live.  This entails a bottom-up approach to ‎development, whereby people at the grassroots level, regardless of their status, can participate ‎in the planning and implementation of many socio-economic development projects. PSCF is a ‎non-profit organization engaged in training, technical assistance, advocacy, litigation, ‎awareness raising, environmental education, water & sanitation and education all over the ‎Gaza strip. So far, PSCF has implemented several projects that aim in general at empowering ‎local cadres and civil society groups to expand the scope of human rights protection for ‎women and children and youth and to promote broad participation in building more effective ‎human rights standards and procedures

As a catalyst and innovator, PSCF seeks to promote this approach among local non-‎governmental and governmental development agencies. Since its establishment, PSCF main ‎office is located in Gaza city and it was always the start point and meeting point of all ‎employees as well as being the management centre. However, due to having several projects in ‎the middle area and within the constant Israeli closures resulted from the current situation, ‎PSCF has recently established a branch in the middle area located at the entry of El Bureij ‎camp. The staffs who work on projects in the middle area all meet there, in addition, a ‎secretary and a cleaner are recruited. The accountant and the projects managers visit the ‎branch office on a regular basis for follow up and monitoring and according to projects needs.‎
The mission of Palestine Save the Children Foundation (PSCF) is to enable the women and ‎children in Palestinian refugee camps and other disadvantaged Communities in Gaza/West ‎Bank to develop and improve their lives economically, socially, and educationally and health ‎by working in partnership with their families and with the communities in which they live.  ‎

Programming Principles: 
Palestine Save the Children Foundation (PSCF) has established three basic elements to guide ‎its programs.
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Child-Focused: 
Palestine Save the Children Foundation believes that children are the central focus of all PSCF ‎Programs, and women are a key to PSCF's work in that, in their multiple roles as economic ‎producers, primary caregivers, and community/household manger. PSCF's women-child ‎sectoral focus is the overarching principle which guides our planning and programming.
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Empowerment of families and communities through partner-ship with local NGO’s: 
Save the Children Foundation helps others to help themselves. Through is programs,
PSCF supports the empowerment of communities through the strengthening of local NGO's to ‎deliver serves within the community . At the same time, we keep in our programs, a very ‎specific emphasis and focus on women and children to ensure that community development ‎we foster achieves our primary goals.
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Sustainability: 
Palestine Save the Children Foundation seeks to develop skills and promote behavior that will ‎endure, and thus ensure positive ongoing changes in the lives of Palestinian children. We ‎believe the most effective way to help children is to strengthen their community, to educate ‎their parents; to encourage gender equality, and improve the system that provide children and ‎mothers with needed services. PSCF works with a number of governmental, non-governmental ‎and international organizations to achieve these goals.
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We are a foundation that is…
‎• Child-centered
‎• Non profit
‎• National
‎• Sponsorship
‎• Non-governmental
‎• Non-political 
‎• Community development
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We are involved in…
‎• Sustainable community development to benefit children.
‎• Local, regional and national partner-ships.
‎• Long term development.
‎• Related programs in education, health, economic enterprise and humanitarian aid/emergency ‎response.
‎• Limited advocacy of selected issues.
‎• Research, publications, conferences, seminars and training.
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We work through and with…
‎• Children, individuals , parents , communities , local and national partnerships to achieve ‎sustainable development .
‎• The combined support of sponsors contributors, government agencies, corporations , ‎foundations and partner organizations .
‎• Divers and highly qualified staff.
‎• Area and field presence.
‎• Effective management practices.
‎• Sound financial management.
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We seek to help…
‎• Disadvantaged children.
‎• Women
‎• Families
‎• Refugees and people affected by emergencies.
‎• Communities
‎• Indigenous organizations.‎