About Us

In 2008, TYO Founder Hani Hikmat Masri opened the doors of one of the first American nonprofit organizations based in Nablus, Palestine. From the beginning, TYO’s model was developed in close collaboration with the communities it serves, responding to interrelated challenges including poverty, unemployment, trauma, limited access to quality education, and gaps in family support. What began with early childhood education has grown into a multigenerational model that supports children, youth, women, caregivers, and families through integrated programs rooted in dignity, healing, and opportunity.

TYO’s flagship center is located in the Zafer Masri Foundation Building in Nablus. The center provides a safe, welcoming, and beautiful environment where children and families from refugee camps and marginalized neighborhoods can access education, psychosocial support, mental health services, youth programming, and family-centered care. TYO also works beyond the center, reaching families in refugee camps, neighborhoods, schools, and homes through community-based programming and referrals.

TYO works with families living in Nablus’s refugee camps, the Old City, Khallet Al-Amood, and surrounding marginalized communities. These areas face overcrowding, economic hardship, limited safe spaces, repeated exposure to violence, and reduced access to quality education, mental health care, and basic services. TYO partners with community-based organizations, universities, UNRWA, refugee camp committees, local institutions, and non-political/non-religious organizations to multiply impact and ensure that programming reflects local realities.

TYO’s team is made up of Palestinian educators, counselors, social workers, program managers, mentors, and operations staff who are deeply connected to the communities they serve. Our staff bring professional expertise, lived understanding, empathy, and integrity to the work every day. Their relationships with families, partners, and community leaders are one of TYO’s greatest strengths.