Elaly Family - Urgent Appeal
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URGENT APPEAL!
Dear SCN friends and family – your fellow neighbors need your help.
In the early morning hours of January 11th, a fire broke out at the 1700 block of West Estes Avenue in the Rogers Park neighborhood of northern Chicago. The two-alarm fire tore through the 3-story apartment building, destroying much of the inside. As a result, one of our newly resettled Syrian families finds themselves once again displaced from their home and personal belongings.
The Elaly Family has faced devastation since the start of the conflict in Syria. In 2012, their father was killed on his way home from work. Local devastation in the city of Homs eventually forced the family to flee their home. Settling in Damascus, the home they sought in refuge from the violence soon succumbed to shelling, with the residual shrapnel still present in the bodies of two of the families’ daughters. The family then migrated to Lebanon, registering with the UNHCR. In January, 2015, they completed the vetting process, allowing them to emigrate to the U.S., arriving in Chicago. So, on the anniversary of their arrival in the U.S., the family once again finds themselves starting over. Please watch this video from when they first resettled https://vimeo.com/124366270
The Syrian Community Network is working to restore some of the family’s most basic necessities. Currently, they are in temporary housing, with little space, so we are only collecting the items that serve the family’s most immediate needs. But, if you would also like to help out for the future when the family has secured new housing, we are also collecting monetary and gift card donations going forward that will help in creating their new home.
So, as you bundle yourselves and your families against the frigid temperatures, keep these families in your hearts, so that perhaps they may inspire a bit of generosity.
Thank you…
Dear SCN friends and family – your fellow neighbors need your help.
In the early morning hours of January 11th, a fire broke out at the 1700 block of West Estes Avenue in the Rogers Park neighborhood of northern Chicago. The two-alarm fire tore through the 3-story apartment building, destroying much of the inside. As a result, one of our newly resettled Syrian families finds themselves once again displaced from their home and personal belongings.
The Elaly Family has faced devastation since the start of the conflict in Syria. In 2012, their father was killed on his way home from work. Local devastation in the city of Homs eventually forced the family to flee their home. Settling in Damascus, the home they sought in refuge from the violence soon succumbed to shelling, with the residual shrapnel still present in the bodies of two of the families’ daughters. The family then migrated to Lebanon, registering with the UNHCR. In January, 2015, they completed the vetting process, allowing them to emigrate to the U.S., arriving in Chicago. So, on the anniversary of their arrival in the U.S., the family once again finds themselves starting over. Please watch this video from when they first resettled https://vimeo.com/124366270
The Syrian Community Network is working to restore some of the family’s most basic necessities. Currently, they are in temporary housing, with little space, so we are only collecting the items that serve the family’s most immediate needs. But, if you would also like to help out for the future when the family has secured new housing, we are also collecting monetary and gift card donations going forward that will help in creating their new home.
So, as you bundle yourselves and your families against the frigid temperatures, keep these families in your hearts, so that perhaps they may inspire a bit of generosity.
Thank you…
Organizer
Syrian Community Network
Organizer
Willowbrook, IL