The non-governmental organization EducAid has been working in Gaza for years, investing resources in building infrastructure to enable people with disabilities to live independently.
EducAid's goal is to transform the widespread conception of humanitarian work, replacing welfare-based assistance with a human rights-based approach. The message conveyed is to invest in people, not as mere recipients of care, but as rights-holders and active agents of their own change, in line with the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

A successful outcome of this work was the founding of the Gaza Independent Living Centre in 2019, in collaboration with the Italian Disability and Development Network and the Centre for Autonomy in Rome, as part of the I-CAN project funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation. Facilities like this centre have provided personalised assistive devices, psychosocial support, and targeted vocational training. The Centre, managed by peer consultants, involved the formation of a multidisciplinary team of around 30 Palestinian workers, many of whom are themselves people with disabilities. In just three years of operation, over 600 people with disabilities were engaged in the project.
In 2022, EducAid launched the TEAM! project with the aim of making Gaza a hub of autonomous production by reducing dependence on external imports, which have been blocked since the start of the Israeli military offensive in 2023, and instead investing in local technical skills. A FabLab was established, now transformed into a Mobile Workshop, equipped with 3D printers and cutting-edge technologies to produce components, spare parts and customized assistive devices.

Following the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip after 7 October 2023, the Gaza Independent Living Centre was destroyed to the ground. Nevertheless, EducAid's work did not stop. Despite forced displacements, the local team continued to operate. With the Palestinian formal education system almost entirely destroyed, EducAid, together with other partners, established Temporary Learning Spaces, informal educational spaces for children with disabilities, built with the involvement of local families.
The NGO also launched a campaign "Gaza Emergency – Immediate Aid for the Most Vulnerable"  with the goal of raising funds to ensure humanitarian assistance reaches people with disabilities, who are rarely among those served.