The conflict in Gaza is having an impact on South Sinai Bedouin. Misfired rockets have landed in South Sinai's coastal areas. People living nearby have been afraid and around 300 families have moved to safety in the mountains. But with nowhere to go and cold winter temperatures setting in, these families need help.

Some of these families are congregating in one of the most remote communities we’ve visited. This settlement used to have a well but a botched development project 20 years ago left it unusable. At that time, many families left the area but some stayed on. Long-abandoned houses are now providing shelter for the displaced new arrivals.

The community there is asking for help to restore their damaged well, to help them cope with this influx of people by providing a reliable water source for both new and existing residents.

This would benefit the local community in the long term, too, by enabling them to grow food again, critical in an area experiencing very deep poverty and extreme inflation. And under current rules it will mean the community can ask the Government for a school, because they will have a sufficient number of settled families to request one to be built. At present the children get no education at all.

SSF co-funded a well earlier this year in another remote community: those residents then applied successfully to have a school and classes are now underway, a wonderful spin-off benefit. If we could do the same for this new community, we would bring multiple benefits to a challenging situation.