Helping My Family Rise Above Adversity

Hey dear world,

This is Haneen Ahmed!

a part of a beautiful Palestinian family living in the city of Gaza. We used to live in a large house that my father had built thirty years ago. My father passed away twenty years ago due to events resulting from the ongoing conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis, and we were young at the time.

We grew up in my father's house and were a lovely family dreaming of a better life. We grew up, established the family business, and worked together in the home electronics trade, got married, and had children.

However, the same conflict that led to my father's death also destroyed our home and our company. Our daughter Zainah and my young brother Alaa were injured.

We kept fleeing from one place to another in Gaza, fearing the death that surrounds us here. We always thought of fleeing to another country to seek refuge, but we were not lucky due to the closure of the crossings and the huge cost required for each person to escape this death.

We have been displaced seven consecutive times within the Gaza Strip and are still displaced. What we are seeking now is to obtain the necessary funds to provide the basic needs for about eleven people, including children, and try to provide some materials and capabilities that will help my engineer brother to repair part of the family home, so that we can establish a stable home until we can set out again to a better life and rebuild our company in our beloved homeland. I will then collect some of these donations to support the publication of my brother's book titled "What I Won't See in My Sleep", which he wrote during the war and contains many stories that he has experienced and is still experiencing, of tragedies, pains, and human circumstances, so that he can inform the world about what our hearts have lived through in those wretched days we are experiencing in Gaza.

Please assist me in helping my family rebuild their lives!