{"id":194902,"date":"2013-03-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=194902"},"modified":"2019-03-12T16:54:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:54:13","slug":"auto-insert-194902","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-194902\/","title":{"rendered":"New nets help fishermen in Gaza become self-reliant – UNDP press release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New nets help fishermen in Gaza become self-reliant<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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By Dania Darwish<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Swedish Village, a remote village of fishermen in the far south of the Gaza Strip in the occupied Palestinian territory, is home to some 95 households living under extreme poverty. Visitors to the Village – built by the Swedish Government in the 1960s – can immediately see the poor infrastructure and inappropriate living conditions tolerated by its 700 inhabitants, who live on less than $US1 per day.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Part of a larger fishing community in the Gaza Strip, the fishermen of that area have faced years of neglect in terms of development activities. But that is not their only worry.<\/p><\/div>\n

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“We were born fishermen. My father was a fisherman and my grandfathers before him. Before, fishing was safer and more productive. Now, we are subject to different risks,” said Kamel Abu Odah, a 50-year-old fisherman with a family of eight and a long-time resident of the Swedish Village.<\/p><\/div>\n

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“We have grown so poor that I cannot buy fishing nets anymore. They are too expensive. I can hardly provide daily food, send my children to school or get appropriate medical care,” he added.<\/p><\/div>\n

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