Ahed Asks Your Help Feeding His Toddlers

Aryn Pennington is organizing this fundraiser.

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This fundraiser is for Ahed Al-Arja and his family: his wife Alaa and their two beautiful babies, Anwar and Abboud. I was contacted by Ahed after algorithm boosting his videos, and it turns out that Ahed, like my brothers or yours, is a man in the world. But Ahed is facing truly unfathomable calamities daily in Gaza. Not only this, but he is keeping his wife and babies safe, keeping them fed, and is showing them every day the measure of a man. Abboud, Anwar, Alaa, and Ahed deserve food, water, shelter, safety, healthcare, and every modern comfort that comes with being a human on this earth in the year 2024. But they aren't asking for modern comforts like they used to have in their cozy home, unrecognizable under rubble now. They are asking for money to buy diapers and basic necessities, to buy food. Please help them at least eat.

Ahed and his wife Alaa were blessed with two boys, their birthdays nearly the same but a year apart. In June this year, Anwar (2) and Abboud (1) spent their birthdays trying to find water, food, shelter, and clothing. Instead of paper crowns, cakes, and gifts, Ahed celebrated them being alive. He celebrates their smiles every day. Like I celebrate the children in my life. He celebrates the rise and fall of their chests every night. He celebrates their little hands and their little smiles and the way that they look at him, unknowing and hungry, but happy with their daddy. There is nothing I can say that we don't already know.. Ahed deserves dignity. Like everyone. He deserves to eat and to feed his family. There is nowhere for them to go. There is nothing. And there is nothing that they can do but to plead for your attention, for your time, for your help. Please donate so Ahed can keep his provided for and so Alaa can continue to do what she does best: care for her boys.

Thank you.