Event Sponsorship Package
Event Purpose:
Build, Treat, Heal is a fundraiser grounded in collective responsibility to turn expertise into sustained support for healthcare in Palestine. We are gathering the Bay Area community to inspire unique ways of pooling knowledge, resources, and capital to scale durable med-tech solutions for Gaza's destroyed healthcare systems. Guests will listen to inspiring speeches from advocates for equal care and enjoy local Palestinian food and craftsmanship through our served appetizers, vendor market, and a curated art auction.
The evening will also feature Alana Hadid as our keynote speaker, joining us for a powerful panel conversation alongside Tommy Marcus, Nora Barrows Friedman, Lara Kiswani, Bridget Rochios, Dr. Tarek Loubani and other incredible voices. Together, we will explore what it means to show up in solidarity for the people of Palestine and mobilize communities toward meaningful, sustained action.
What You’re Supporting:
Glia is a medical solidarity organization committed to creating accessible, high-quality healthcare solutions for low-resource settings. Glia has been working alongside Palestinian healthcare workers in Gaza since 2014, and has tailored its response to Israeli attacks on healthcare since 2023 by focusing on three critical areas: the creation of locally designed and produced medical devices; supporting highly qualified international medical teams; and on-the-ground healthcare services.
(a) Medical Devices: Supporting medical device production within Gaza is a strategic and values-driven investment that advances both immediate healthcare access and long-term community resilience. By enabling local manufacturing, this initiative centers
Palestinian expertise and labour, in an effort to prioritize self-determination over dependency. Locally produced devices help navigate severe import restrictions imposed by Israel’s blockade on the Gaza Strip, which continues to limit the entry of medical supplies. Our local medical device projects, which include manufacturing tourniquets, otoscopes, and external fixation devices, ensure that critical tools are designed with contextual realities in mind.
This is not only a practical intervention that saves lives, but also a meaningful expression of solidarity. We aim to stand alongside communities in Gaza as they build sustainable, dignified systems of care from within.
(b) International medical teams: Our international medical teams are deployed in alignment with the priorities and guidance of the Ministry of Health, ensuring that all efforts respond directly to locally identified needs. Since January 2024, we have sent over 50 highly qualified healthcare professionals across a range of specialties—including surgery, emergency medicine, pediatrics, neonatal care, and reproductive health—who work side-by-side with Palestinian colleagues. Their presence provides critical respite to an overburdened health system while reinforcing a collaborative model of care rooted in respect and partnership.
Beyond immediate service delivery, we carefully select delegates with the expertise and commitment to strengthen healthcare infrastructure through capacity building, with a particular emphasis on education and training within emergency medicine. This approach ensures that each deployment contributes not only to urgent patient care but also to the long-term sustainability and resilience of the local health system.
(c) Healthcare services: On March 1, 2026, Glia opened a Wound Care Clinic at Nasser Hospital under the guidance of the Ministry of Health, establishing a dedicated site for specialized treatment within one of Gaza’s most critical healthcare facilities. The clinic is staffed by 25 local healthcare professionals, including wound care nurses, surgical consultants, physicians, a physiotherapist, a mental health professional, and essential support staff. Serving both inpatients and outpatients, the clinic has already reached hundreds of patients, with an anticipated case load of 100-200 patients daily, providing consistent, high-quality care to those with urgent and complex needs.
Hospitals are the backbone of Gaza’s healthcare system. By investing directly in Palestinian staff, expertise, and local resources at Nasser Hospital, this initiative strengthens a facility that will continue to serve the community for years to come. Supporting hospital-based care helps preserve continuity of services, maintain specialized treatment capacity, and contribute to the long-term recovery and resilience of the health system.
At Nasser, the clinic delivers comprehensive wound care to some of the most underserved and severely injured patients in Gaza. This includes complex wound management, burn care, infection control, and limb-saving interventions for individuals who often have no access to specialized treatment elsewhere. By embedding this work within the hospital system, the clinic contributes to sustainable, locally rooted healthcare delivery.
This effort builds on experience gained from operating a polyclinic in Al Zawaida from February 2024 to March 2025, which provided free healthcare to approximately 600 patients per week. Services there included maternal care, ENT, nutrition support, and primary care—demonstrating the impact of accessible, community-based healthcare and informing the continued commitment to high-quality, locally driven care.
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Sponsorship Packages
Community Sponsor: $250+ or In-Kind Contribution Addition
Community Sponsors may contribute a minimum of $250 or donate in-kind items such as artwork for the auction, materials for the kids’ table, print services, or other relevant supplies that support the event.
To confirm your sponsorship, please complete the Sponsorship Form.
Questions? Please email Nadia Eltayeb, Glia’s Events Director, at nadia@glia.org.