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***NOVEMBER 14th 2018 UPDATE = THIS GOFUNDME CAMPAIGN IS NOW IN ARCHIVE AS THE PROJECT HAS MOVED TO PHASE 2 THAT OF SETTLEMENT IN THE HOST COUNTRIES.... PLEASE USE GOFUNDME CAMPAIGN family-link-up-phase-2-settlement..you will find the link on my blogposts and side margin. as I am unable to active link one gofundme to another...... MANY THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT TO HELP REBUILD LIVES....
MARJORIE
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I am a British retired nurse & midwife that is helping to link up a Syrian extended family that is scattered between Turkey, now Belgium from Athens Greece and Germany. I was first approached by Dante in Turkey, he calls himself Dante as he feels he has been through Dante's hell and after counselling him I can say he has! He felt he could trust me with the care and overseeing of his family. With this help rebuild their lives.
I have known Dante & about his family since May 2015 and I have been able to work with them online and visit them on a small pension fund I had. But in 2016 there was a need for me to reach out for more funding as my pension was running out. I also had been given some neonatal cargo here in London to get out to Athens where Dante's sister and family was. So I set up this gofundme appeal for followers and supporters to help me. I have been trying to get grants and written to the EU for funding but individual carers/befrienders cannot receive funds from the billions of Euros available to refugees only NGOs even though all I have written back to me to commend my work & my passion to help this family and their communities.
All I do I report to the UNHCR here in London as an independent carer with a copy to my MP.
I care a lot about the family as I have shared much with them over our time of knowing one another. I cannot imagine life now without this project and the family. I particularly enjoyed spending time in the Athens camp with Boshra and her cute daughter, my Princess Leen. You can see and read about our adventures on my updates and blog Family Link Up. http://linkupsyrianfamily.blogspot.co.uk/
The funds that were raised on the gofundme over the time period end of February 2017 begining of March 2017 enabled me to travel to Athens for the birth of Boshra's second daughter Celine in March 2017.
Boshra and her girls have now been moved to Belgium and I would like to check on their living facilities.
I have all the other family members to check on too!
Through this project I have been learning a lot and even attended committee meetings in Parliament on Syria and the refugee problems. I hope you can help me. One major observation I have made is that it helps to have some funds to spend with local traders in the area of the camps. This softens the edges as it were between the camp and wider community and turns burden into benefit. It is good for the local traders to feel valued and it is therapeutic for the refugees to have a normal family day shopping in the area.
We have achieved much together from trauma counselling to goods purchased from food to fridges in the camp to lap top for writing reports, to clothes, toys, and educational tools, writing CVs and applying for jobs, creative writing with publications and reports translated to helping a Syrian baby with her much needed operation to remove a tumour.
Update needs 16th April 2018
Money will be used to 1. fund shopping needs of family, 2.help with educational material for the children and 3. art materials for Boshra and the women folk to make goods to sell in local markets. 4. Send parcels of treats and clothes from UK as I see bargains, 5.Travel expenses for me to spend time and help in the camps and in the host country refugee communities - with this formulate reports and assessment of needs.
Many thanks for your visits to this appeal and please help as you can the minimum donation on the site is £5 every amount helps. You will read in the updates I still need to pay for the neonatal cargo delivery too so I am very much in need of your help..... Be part of the story!
Marjorie BSc RN RM Cert counselling.
MARJORIE
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I am a British retired nurse & midwife that is helping to link up a Syrian extended family that is scattered between Turkey, now Belgium from Athens Greece and Germany. I was first approached by Dante in Turkey, he calls himself Dante as he feels he has been through Dante's hell and after counselling him I can say he has! He felt he could trust me with the care and overseeing of his family. With this help rebuild their lives.
I have known Dante & about his family since May 2015 and I have been able to work with them online and visit them on a small pension fund I had. But in 2016 there was a need for me to reach out for more funding as my pension was running out. I also had been given some neonatal cargo here in London to get out to Athens where Dante's sister and family was. So I set up this gofundme appeal for followers and supporters to help me. I have been trying to get grants and written to the EU for funding but individual carers/befrienders cannot receive funds from the billions of Euros available to refugees only NGOs even though all I have written back to me to commend my work & my passion to help this family and their communities.
All I do I report to the UNHCR here in London as an independent carer with a copy to my MP.
I care a lot about the family as I have shared much with them over our time of knowing one another. I cannot imagine life now without this project and the family. I particularly enjoyed spending time in the Athens camp with Boshra and her cute daughter, my Princess Leen. You can see and read about our adventures on my updates and blog Family Link Up. http://linkupsyrianfamily.blogspot.co.uk/
The funds that were raised on the gofundme over the time period end of February 2017 begining of March 2017 enabled me to travel to Athens for the birth of Boshra's second daughter Celine in March 2017.
Boshra and her girls have now been moved to Belgium and I would like to check on their living facilities.
I have all the other family members to check on too!
Through this project I have been learning a lot and even attended committee meetings in Parliament on Syria and the refugee problems. I hope you can help me. One major observation I have made is that it helps to have some funds to spend with local traders in the area of the camps. This softens the edges as it were between the camp and wider community and turns burden into benefit. It is good for the local traders to feel valued and it is therapeutic for the refugees to have a normal family day shopping in the area.
We have achieved much together from trauma counselling to goods purchased from food to fridges in the camp to lap top for writing reports, to clothes, toys, and educational tools, writing CVs and applying for jobs, creative writing with publications and reports translated to helping a Syrian baby with her much needed operation to remove a tumour.
Update needs 16th April 2018
Money will be used to 1. fund shopping needs of family, 2.help with educational material for the children and 3. art materials for Boshra and the women folk to make goods to sell in local markets. 4. Send parcels of treats and clothes from UK as I see bargains, 5.Travel expenses for me to spend time and help in the camps and in the host country refugee communities - with this formulate reports and assessment of needs.
Many thanks for your visits to this appeal and please help as you can the minimum donation on the site is £5 every amount helps. You will read in the updates I still need to pay for the neonatal cargo delivery too so I am very much in need of your help..... Be part of the story!
Marjorie BSc RN RM Cert counselling.
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