Will Chalk
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5,182 appearances
37 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 3d ago
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Israel imposes tight restrictions on foreign journalists entering Gaza, so our Middle East correspondent Yolan Nel has been speaking online to local tech workers.
Makhren Bayed, his wife and three young children now live in a tent in Gaza City.
Despite his ruined surroundings, he's one of thousands of well-educated Gazans trying to make a living online, coding and programming.
With Gaza's economy all but destroyed and 80% of people with no income, NGOs see the potential of remote work to fill a desperate need.
It's really critical.
I mean, we talk about it now as sort of a digital lifeline.
Nicole Hark is country director for the American NGO Mercy Corps, which is trying to help Gazans, focusing on training, getting contacts for freelancers and supporting the new independent co-working spaces that are popping up in Gaza City and elsewhere.
It's really critical to help people get back to work.
They don't want to be dependent on aid.
They're not looking to sit there and do nothing, right?
But it's really finding a safe space and finding something that's affordable and
These hubs have generators and solar panels to provide power and a better internet connection, while most of the population is still living in tents.
Wala Valides is a 24-year-old computer software engineer and her family's main breadwinner.
Today, she's talking to one of her mentors based in California's Silicon Valley.
Wallah has recently got a full-time job with a Dubai-based company.
With almost daily bombings, as Israel says it's continuing to target Hamas, safety is still a big concern.
And there are plenty of other challenges for tech-savvy Gazans to overcome.
As well as the unstable electricity and internet, banking restrictions make it difficult to be paid.
Mehran is finding it hard to get his laptop screen repaired at this makeshift workshop.
There are tight Israeli restrictions on what comes into Gaza, including computer parts, because Israel sees them as having a possible military use.
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