Educational Workspace · Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, Gaza

Keeping Education Alive When Everything Else Stops.

Riva Hub gives displaced students the essentials many no longer have at home: reliable power, internet, quiet, and a desk for lectures, assignments, applications, and exams.

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Reliable power
Internet
Quiet to concentrate
A desk
A place to sit exams

300+
Students served: 200+
Scholarship applicants supported: 10+
English tests taken on site

Students, demand, space, and early impact are already in place. What is missing is the capacity to serve more students safely, reliably, and sustainably.

Riva Hub is not seeking support to launch. It is seeking support to scale a proven service.

Students seated along shared tables, laptops connected to power strips running down the centre — Shared tables and shared power: each added power strip enables another student to work.

A real place, already in use

An affordable study space in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis

Riva Hub opened on 1 June 2026. It gives displaced students the essentials many no longer have at home: reliable power, internet, quiet, and a desk for lectures, assignments, applications and exams.

In its first six weeks, more than 300 students used the space for study, coursework, power, internet and exams. Demand is immediate and daily.

Opened: 1 June 2026
Location: Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, Gaza Strip
Open daily: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

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Our impact since 1 June 2026

Six weeks of measurable impact

These figures show how Riva Hub has been used since opening. Because students often use several services, categories overlap and are reported separately.

300+
Students served: 200+
Scholarship applicants supported: 10+
Duolingo English Tests: 50–60
Current capacity: ~200
Physical potential

Categories overlap: one student may study, take an exam, and apply for a scholarship. Figures are reported separately and must not be added together.

Students clustered closely together in the shaded part of the workspace

Female students working at laptops at Riva Hub

Students cluster in cooler, shaded areas — appropriate shading would recover the rest of the room.

The context

When a desk, power and quiet become out of reach

For students, reliable power and internet, a quiet place and a desk are no longer routine. Their absence can decide whether a lecture, exam or application is completed.

An exam can be lost when the power fails. A scholarship deadline can pass when the internet drops.

A Riva Hub team member connecting equipment outdoors, with solar panels and shelter tents behind — Riva Hub operates within a landscape of tents and temporary shelters, drawing on its own solar system for power.

What students cannot reliably find

Reliable electricity
A stable internet connection
A quiet place to concentrate
A proper desk and a safe place for laptops
Privacy for interviews and online meetings
Suitable conditions for exams
A place to attend online lectures
Somewhere to apply for scholarships
Space to finish university projects

These gaps delay exams, interrupt lectures and close opportunities — not because students lack ability or effort, but because essential conditions are unavailable when needed.

Our response

Remove the constraint, and the work gets finished

Riva Hub is a direct, practical response to the conditions that decide whether academic work is completed on time.

Challenge
Power failure
Riva Hub provides
Reliable electricity
Result
The student completes the exam

An exam is no longer lost when the power fails.

Challenge
Internet instability
Riva Hub provides
Reliable internet
Result
The student submits the scholarship application

A deadline is no longer missed when the connection drops.

Challenge
No quiet workspace
Riva Hub provides
A study desk and quiet environment
Result
The student completes the project

Focused academic work becomes possible again.

Challenge
No suitable interview setting
Riva Hub provides
A more private area
Result
The student attends the interview

A professional opportunity stays open.

What we provide

Everything a student needs to finish the work

Laptops, cables and a shared power strip on a patterned table covering

Electricity for laptops and devices

Internet access for lectures, exams and applications

Desks and seating for individual study

More private areas for exams and interviews

Facilities for international tests (e.g. Duolingo)

Support for scholarship and university applications

A respectful space for male and female students

In their own work

One space, many kinds of work

Riva Hub supports students across disciplines and levels, including those whose work is not laptop-based.

All student work

All student work

The opportunity

The room is bigger than the resources

The premises could hold about 200 students once fully equipped. Today, power, internet, heat, sun exposure and facility conditions limit the hub to 50–60 at a time.

Every resolved constraint increases the number of students served and the stability of study hours. Reaching 200 depends on infrastructure, not demand.

See what support unlocks

Students served at one time

Now practical capacity

200

Potential once equipped

Current practical capacity ≈ 50–60; the taller bar shows the ~200 physical potential.

Priority needs

What support unlocks

Each need is a defined, solvable constraint. Capital works are confirmed through technical assessment and supplier quotations before funding is committed.

Priority 1 — power is the primary bottleneck

Energy and electricity

The current solar system cannot reliably meet minimum demand, especially on cloudy days, in winter, or as student numbers rise. When solar generation falls short, Riva Hub buys external generator power at up to about $10.00 per kilowatt-hour, sharply increasing daily costs. Proposed intervention, subject to technical assessment: additiona...

Challenge

Limited, weather-dependent power

Intervention

Expand solar, storage, and system capacity

Expected result

Reliable power at more seats

Student impact

More students study and take exams without interruption

Heat, roofing and sunlight

Heat makes long study sessions hard

Internet and electrical infrastructure

Weak connectivity and too few outlets

Sanitation facilities

Facilities inadequate for current and future demand

Running costs

High running costs

The bottom line

Targeted support translates directly into usable seats, reliable study hours, and completed exams and applications for students in Al-Mawasi.

Capacity goal

60 → 200

students served at one time

From support to impact

How your donation helps

Fund a defined operating need now, while capital upgrades are costed through technical assessment.

$250

Keep students connected

One month of internet

Covers the internet service that lectures, exams, interviews and scholarship applications depend on.

Give $250

$825

Keep the doors open

One week of rent

Covers a week of rent on the former café premises that houses the workspace.

Give $825

$3,550

Four-week continuity package

Four weeks of rent + one month of internet

The immediate continuity target. Variable generator power, maintenance, and repairs are excluded.

Give $3,550

After assessment

Infrastructure upgrades

Energy, shading, electrical, and sanitation works

Capital works are confirmed through technical assessment and supplier quotations before funding is committed.

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The space in use

Riva Hub, photographed

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Students working at laptops across the Riva Hub study room, beneath the space's original café mural — Riva Hub in use: students studying and working online beneath the space's original café mural.

An engineering student working on a CAD drawing on a laptop — An engineering student works on a CAD drawing — power strips shared across the table keep every device running.

Transparency & reporting

A clear evidence trail for every contribution

Invoices, supplier quotations and detailed records are available on request.

A Riva Hub team member connecting a network switch on an outdoor wall beside the solar array

Before funding

Scope, quotation and agreed budget, shared before any money is committed.

During delivery

Invoices, purchase records and progress photographs as the work is carried out.

After completion

Beneficiary, expense and impact summary once the work is finished.

How we report on funded work

Help Keep Education Moving.

Riva Hub is an established educational workspace with proven demand and early impact. Targeted support will help it serve many more students in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, safely and sustainably.

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