My name is Mariam Kittaneh and I'm a Palestinian currently in Chicagoland. I am reaching out to all of you for urgent help and compassion on behalf of my very close and personal friends Mohammed, Amir, Ali, and Mahmoud (we are not sharing last names out of respect for families' privacy).

These young men are the heads of household for five large (avg. 8 ppl each) families who were displaced forcefully out of their home in Gaza in 2024, and with our help through various fundraisers last year, escaped the genocide in Gaza through Rafah.

Over a year later, they remain in Egypt and while alive, they are stateless without certainty about how to return to "living" today, let alone months or years from now, and Egypt still has yet to provide a solution for those forcibly displaced and seeking refuge within its borders.

With the help of everyday people's donations, we were able to help sustain their first few months of cost of living in Cairo. A "few months" has turned into a "few more months." They are strong, resilient men, currently looking to work but with the current economic conditions in Egypt coupled with being without papers and "stateless" as a Palestinian from Gaza, just getting started is a struggle.

Let's work together as a global community to help with the basics of life for the remainder of the year. Any amount helps, no contribution is too small or too big.

As the famous saying goes, "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

On behalf of those who I serve, thank you.