<div>My name is Sylvia and I live in the UK. I'm raising funds on behalf of my friend Shady, his wife Sahar, and their 7 children in Gaza. Shady's family has endured unimaginable hardship - fleeing massacre after massacre, losing their home, and now facing famine and homelessness whilst having just welcomed their newborn baby Yahya into the world. I've created this fundraiser to help them survive. Every donation that I raise will be sent on to Shady and Sahar, so they can buy food, shelter materials, and be prepared for bringing their newborn baby back to their tent.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>Please read their story below - and if you can, help give this family a chance to live.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div><strong>After surviving war, we now face starvation – please help us stay alive</strong>
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>Before October 7th, our lives were full of hope. My wife, our six children, and I were living peacefully in our modest home, dreaming of a better future. But everything changed in an instant.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>We lived in a town near the Israeli border. When the bombings began, we had no time to prepare. As we fled, I looked back at our home and knew—I would never see it standing again. “I remember that moment clearly,” I told my children. “We’ll never forget the day everything was taken from us.”
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>We ran to the nearby city of Jabalia and found shelter in a UN school. But within a week, Israeli forces forced us to flee again—this time to Rafah, in the south.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>My children kept asking me, “Why is this happening to us, father? Why are they killing so many people?”. I had no answers. All I could do was hold them close.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>We witnessed unspeakable horrors. Massacres on the roads. Families torn apart. We spent over a year in Rafah, just surviving. Then, once again, we were displaced—this time to Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis. For eight months, we slept on the sand by the sea. We had nothing. It was there that my wife became pregnant with our newest and seventh child, Yahya, who has only just been born. 
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>We faced death over and over again. In Khan Younis, we saw it with our own eyes—dozens of times. But by the grace of God, we survived until the ceasefire.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>We were finally allowed to return north. We clung to hope that our home might still be standing. For three days, we walked—my wife, my children, and I—racing to see it. But when we arrived, all that remained was rubble. “My children cried as we sifted through the wreckage. I found some of their toys beneath the debris and set up a tent on top of what used to be our home". We stayed there for less than a month. Then, once again, we were forced to flee under fire when the ceasefire ended.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>Now, we are in western Gaza City—displaced yet again. We’ve been here for over a month, and we are starving. The famine has reached us. Our bodies are weak. My children cry from hunger every day. Many around us have already died from lack of food. Sahar almost reached the tenth month of pregnancy due to malnutrition.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>We have nothing left. Not even the strength to endure much longer.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>I beg our friends around the world: Please, help us survive.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>After everything we’ve faced, don’t let us die of hunger. Help us to feed my wife, so that she can feed our newborn baby Yahya. Help us to buy diapers and formula.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div><strong>﻿Your donation today could mean food for our children tomorrow.</strong> It could mean shelter, safety, and the chance to welcome our newborn baby into a world that still has kindness in it.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div><strong>Please stand with us—one family among thousands who refuse to give up.</strong>
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>With your help, we can make it through this final difficulty.
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>With love and hope,
</div>
<div><br />
</div>
<div>Shady
</div>

Andrea Perez

Emily Racioppi

Janelle Young

Jessica Racioppi

Aylin Sevgili

Alexia Espinoza

Anonymous

Muhammad Obaidullah

Fernando Palazuelos León

Sarah Heffernan

Leila McCarthy

Muhammad Farzeen

Sara Hall

Valeria Caragia

Jennifer Lim

Felicity Gilbert

Help a Mother, her Newborn and 6 Children to Survive in Gaza

Support urgent earthquake relief and past recovery in Venezuela.

Apoya la ayuda urgente tras el terremoto y los esfuerzos de recuperación en Venezuela.

platform

Platform is iOS

Android

Adyen Google Pay Development Audience

$opt_dummy_attribute

English only

Deprecate Stripe Legacy

dyn_template_ids

Adyen V6 Bene Transfer & MyMoney Campaign Organizers - test01

Bene transfer V6 and AdyenV6MyMoney Campaign Organizers - production

OneTrust next-app audience

fundCountryCode

NextDoor Share Option Users

Fundraisers with Reactions feature capability

fundCurrencyCode

US + Non-charity COs Only

locale

fund country is US and user language is English

personId

comms-internal-person-ids

Enhanced Story Experience Users

Suggested Goal Experience Users

user language is English and fund country: US, AU, DK, FI, IE, NO, SE, CA, GB; 

Poster share - new funds eligible (newest 9/18)

Streaming widgets beta user

paymentProcessor

3DS payment method

user language is English and fundCountry: US, AU, DK, FI, IE, NO, SE, CA, GB; 

currencyCode

Money Box Donation List Prompt Experiment Audience

GoFundMe Employees

ipAddress

Mark Rieth IP Address

Version 9.2.0 and above

Fund is in English speaking country

desktop

Android v12.11.0 and above

Platform is Android

paymentMethodType

checkoutType

Payment method type group to be vaulted on success

admin pr kit prod

EUR Donation Upsell

Share Text generation Skip Fundraiser

(prod) new funds eligible for amp12 (UGC gallery)

fintrac_cad_idv_form_v2 audience

paymentProcessorAccountId

fallback mode accounts

proCampaignId

p2p legacy startfundraising page

AMP24 New Funds Only PROD (DO NOT MODIFY)

Eligible for Profile Share Badge

countryCode

charityId

UKCharities

Federated Search Internal Testing

route.pathname community

US Donation Upsell audience 

Auto Thanks Feature Audience

International Only

fundId

braze fundraiser group 

Payment Identity Transfers ATO Risk Check (Targeted) - Production

Fundraiser Saved Payment Method Rate Limit Bypass (Production)

leaderboard-partner-id-audience-givepanel

Version 9.2.1 and above

AUD Donation Upsell audience

fundraiserCountryCode is US/EN

Active Fundraiser - Smart Default Cadence

DAF Internal

Vault on success card payment method

Platform is iOS v11.0.0 and above

Desktop users

Person ids

United States (US) users

allow yuno fundraisers for test

Mexico country code

Posters INTL

Support Comments Allowlist

NPO Profile Opted-In

iOS at or above 12.4.0

non-US recurring donors

Canada Campaign Owner Group

Fundraiser Without Meta Link

Scheduler payment tester gorup

charityCommunityId

Charities allow to be claimed unclaimed (PRD)

Canada (CA) users

UC Tipping v20250115 International

pymk_production_xplr_fe_team

Android at or above 12.2.0

Profile photo entry point audience

smart goals (fundraiser/manage) on test01

Activity Tracking v1 Beta Testing

start gfm intl allowed locales

Platform is iOS v11.2.0 and above

NPO upsell education category

unclaimed charities

prod_ach_audience

AI Chatbot Audience

amp13 only new funds (prod) (anyword auto)

UC Flow Enabled (Prod)

Payment Identity Beneficiary Verification - Production

shared notification bell audience

Custom users

ach frontend audience

Android v11.0.0 and above

Users Receiving Payments Paused Notifications

smart goals test01

Manage Coach - US English Organizers Only + new funds only

Team EGG - IP Address list

NPO recommendations prod

Fundraiser Without Instagram Deep Link

Native 11.4.0 and above

UC Tipping v20250107

Users Receiving Braze KYC Validation Failed

ai_title_page

anyword

openai

control

manual_entry

userEmail

template_id

userId

fundUrl

isCharityCo

email

appVersion

shouldBucketIntoExperiment

isEligibleForProfileBadge

partnerId

donationCadence

isActiveFundraiser

isPartner

isMobile

npoProfileOptIn

fundIsLinkedWithMeta

hasSessionDonation

categoryGroup

isCampaignOwner

fundHasInstagramDeepLink

Native 11.3.0 and above

Native 11.4.0 and higher

New funds eligible - Video Sharing (PROD)

GB Donation Upsell audience 

Auto Thanks V3 Rollout Audience

Thank you V3 testing whitelist

isRecurringFriendly

Is Recurring Friendly

Excluded funds - Video Sharing

NPO upsell animals category

NPO upsell disaster relief category

Logged In Users

CH Donation Upsell audience

Android v10.6.0 and above

NPO upsell essential needs category

NPO upsell medical category

userCurrencyCode

Localized Currency

NPO upsell cancer category

v11.5.0 and above

testAudience

pathname

Survicate

appVersion is at or above 12.8.0

Non-charity fund

isChallengeFundraiser

challenge-fundraisers

Payment Identity Launch Verification - Production

New funds eligible - Posters v2

CAD Donation Upsell Audience

Braze Email Tester

NPO Profile Opted-Out

iOS App Version

hasKnownDonors

PYMK has donors

iOS v12.3.0 and above

Help a Mother, her Newborn and 6 Children to Survive in Gaza

Still £2,194 to go. Help us build momentum.