The Vulnerable People Project (VPP), a U.S.-based Catholic human rights apostolate, has launched a fundraising drive to help produce and deliver prosthetic limbs to hundreds of orphaned children injured in the war in Gaza.
VPP says Gaza now has one of the world’s highest concentrations of child amputees, with thousands of children having lost limbs since the war began. About 18,000 children in Gaza have no surviving immediate family members, leaving many injured children to navigate their recovery alone, according to VPP.
“Since the beginning of the war, tens of thousands of civilians have been caught in the crossfire, many of them children,” the group stated in a campaign video included in a press release.
“Most child amputees in the world — the majority of them — live in that little strip of land that we call Gaza,” VPP President and Founder Jason Jones said. “What if I told you that we could provide prosthetic limbs to the tens of thousands of child amputees in Gaza right now?”
The initiative, dubbed “Gaza Walks,” partners VPP with the Bethlehem Arab Society for Rehabilitation, a nongovernmental organization (NGO) providing medical and rehabilitation care in Bethlehem. The rehabilitation society will use 3D printing to produce and fit custom prosthetic limbs for injured children in Gaza and the West Bank.
VPP, one of the few NGOs continuing to serve Christians and orphans in Palestine, has remained active in the region throughout the conflict. According to the release, VPP has rescued vulnerable civilians and delivered food and water to hundreds sheltering in Gaza’s two remaining churches — including Gaza’s only Catholic parish that was struck by an Israeli shell in July 2025. Since the war’s end, VPP has continued to provide tents, firewood, baby formula, and educational programs to families displaced from their homes.
“But more must be done,” the group said in the release. Each prosthetic limb costs about $2,500 to produce and fit. The campaign is aiming to raise $1 million this month to help 400 orphaned children.
“A limb will provide so much more than a way to hold a fork or run… it will provide dignity and hope,” VPP stated in the release. “It will show some of the world’s most forgotten that they are loved.”
Donations are being accepted here.