How Circular Design Is Using Digital Expertise to Build a Movement for Food Security in Gaza
At Circular Design, we combine technology with human empathy. This blend helps us address global crises and urgent needs effectively. Today, we’re excited to share a project that embodies this belief: the Gaza Food Project.
Why We’re Doing This
Circular Design has always supported grassroots organisations. These groups work on the frontlines of social and environmental justice. We’ve put all our profits back into these causes. We’ve created jobs for refugee professionals and built strong digital tools for mission-driven organisations.
But in the face of war and genocide in Gaza, we’ve also been asking ourselves: How can we do more?
The answer came from blending our strengths: web design, digital strategy, and online fundraising. Many of us gained humanitarian skills while working in charities before starting Circular Design. The Gaza Food Project shows this mix. It’s a focused, digital campaign aimed at tackling an urgent crisis.
The Crisis We’re Addressing
Gaza faces a severe humanitarian crisis, even with the shaky ceasefire in place. Families are facing acute food insecurity, with limited access to necessities. Grassroots organisations are making a real difference, even if the scale seems huge. They need resources to keep up their important work.
That’s where the Gaza Food Project comes in.
Our Approach: Digital Skills for Real-World Impact
We’ve built a dedicated platform at gazafoodproject.com that does three critical things:
- Mobilises volunteers through an international network of poster activists
- Makes giving easy with QR codes on posters linked to our clear donation platform
- Builds a movement by engaging individuals, cafes, businesses, and volunteers who want to contribute
This method uses what we’ve learned at Circular Design. It focuses on making digital experiences that create social impact.
Part of Something Bigger
The Gaza Food Project sits alongside our broader social impact work at Circular Design:
- Impact Grants: We keep reinvesting profits into grassroots groups focused on human rights and climate justice.
- Employment Justice: Over 50% of our team are refugee designers and developers, creating pathways into the tech industry
- Accessible Design: Our websites meet high accessibility standards, ensuring digital inclusion
- Sustainable Web Development: All our sites are carbon negative and hosted on renewable energy
Each initiative reflects our belief that business should serve communities, not extract from them. That’s why we’re called ‘Circular’ Design after all.
Building a Movement Together
This is just the beginning. The Gaza Food Project works because of its movement – dozens of people contributing skills, resources, and energy to multiply impact.
We’re actively looking for:
- Partner Organisations in Gaza: Grassroots groups doing food relief work in Gaza
- Cafes, Bars & Businesses: Venues willing to display our posters, host a fundraising event, or make a direct donation
- Volunteers: People with skills in social media, community organising, or event planning
- Poster Activists: Individuals and groups ready to print and distribute our posters
Why This Matters to Circular Design
Some might ask: Why is a web design agency launching a humanitarian campaign?
The answer is simple: because we can.
We have the technical skills to build effective digital infrastructure. We have experience in nonprofit fundraising and campaigning. We have a platform and a community. And we have a responsibility to use these assets for more than just our own growth.
The Gaza Food Project is what happens when a social enterprise asks not just “How do we grow our business?” but “How do we leverage our capabilities for maximum social good?”
Get Involved
Whatever your role—business owner, volunteer, or donor—there’s a place for you in this movement.
Visit gazafoodproject.com to:
- Make a direct donation
- Sign up as a volunteer
- Register your business as a partner
- Learn more about the organisations we’re supporting
Every contribution—time, skills, or resources—helps families in Gaza get the food they need to survive.
Because at Circular Design, we don’t just believe that good websites can change the world.
Good people, working together with the right tools, can change the world.
Ready to be part of this movement? Join us today.
Circular Design is a Community Interest Company. It reinvests all profits into local social and environmental causes. We build beautiful, accessible websites for nonprofits. We also offer job opportunities for refugee professionals.
