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A Welsh dragon in Gaza?!
Published on July 15, 2025 by Jia Wei Lee

PLEASE DO NOT SHARE ON SOCIAL MEDIA, the people of Gaza want to share it first in a few days 🥹

A while ago we asked for ideas on what to draw for the mural - well here is our kitchen and bakery in Gaza (80% finished!!!!), with the Welsh dragon on it 🐉🥹

With your money, the citizens of Gaza have successfully built a kitchen and bakery within Gaza with $15,000 of funding you all have given from multiple projects from our project Direct Funds for Gaza's flour and bread initiative, as well as other initiatives.

This bakery is located in Central Gaza (Al-Zawaida - Deir al-Balah) and provides predominantly bread and packaged meals in a beautiful and elegant way, in the people's words, "far from crowding, humiliation and insults we always see hurled towards people in need when distributing food".

https://youtube.com/shorts/Wzuu5Oo3_EA

The bakery is equipped to produce dozens of loaves per minute. We have 4 large ovens, and we will be adding another one, which is the main one.

The bread and meals will be distributed to different camps every day, in which Gazans will determine the day before. These meals and bread will be distributed via a  "tuk-tuk" (motorbike) 🥹

WE ARE NEARLY THERE!!!! The number on people benefiting from this relies on our constant donations for flour and ingredients, so if you are able to set up a monthly payment to support this initiative, or a one-time donation please do so here: https://opencollective.com/direct-funds-for-gaza/projects/al-zawaida-deir-al-balah-baker/donate?interval=oneTime&amount=20&contributeAs=me


Thank you very much!!!