Help Ahmed, Alaa and their Precious Babies Escape Gaza

‼️URGENT‼️

FAMILY IN GAZA NEEDS YOUR HELP!

Help Ahmed & Alaa Escape Gaza With Their Two Young Babies

Dear friends, family, and compassionate hearts,

My name is Christina Overholt, from Wisconsin, USA. I’m writing to you today with an urgent plea for my dear friends Alaa and Ahmed Alkurd, currently stuck in Gaza City.

In October of 2023, they were still newlyweds; talented, educated, kind dreamers, ready to start their lives together.

Now, in June of 2025, they have become the courageous parents of two beautiful children, fighting to survive in Gaza every day.

When the war broke out, Alaa was newly pregnant. What should have been a time of celebration became a nightmare of bombings, displacement, and fear.

In March 2024, amid unimaginable danger, baby Ghina was born in a crowded field hospital in Rafah. Just over a year later, in May 2025, they welcomed their son Joud into a world still crumbling around them.

This family is extraordinary—not just for their strength, but for who they are.

✨ Alaa is brilliant. She graduated with honors at the very top of her class from the Department of Arabic Language at Al-Azhar University. She has a way with words that could melt your heart, a kindness in her heart that makes you feel her warmth, and a fire in her soul that shows her passion for life.

✨ Ahmed is talented and extremely ambitious. He holds a master’s degree in business administration and worked as a graphic designer before the war. He had built a career for himself, with dreams of supporting his family and raising his children in peace. He was furthering his education in pursuit of his PhD. Ahmed did every single thing he was supposed to do (and more) to make sure Alaa and his family would never struggle in life.

But war took everything.

Ahmed and Alaa were separated from their families for months, through the birth of their first child, just waiting to be reunited with them during the fragile ceasefire. But even now, they live apart from their loved ones—not by choice, but out of a desperate strategy to preserve their family’s bloodline in case of an air strike. No family should ever have to make such a decision.

Now, this beautiful family is holding on to one hope: to escape Gaza and build a new life where their children can grow up in peace.

But escaping Gaza costs over $5,000 per person just to cross the border into Egypt. That’s more than $20,000 for Ahmed, Alaa, Ghina, and newborn Joud alone—an impossible sum under these conditions, when there is no option to work. They are also fighting to evacuate their elderly parents and extended family, who remain in danger every single day.

Can you imagine trying to figure out a way to save every member of your family in this situation? That’s truly their reality.

Ahmed has tirelessly fundraised on TikTok but we need one more big push to make sure when the borders open, they have all the funds they need to save everyone.

If you donate, your donation will help cover:

• Border crossing fees

• Emergency travel documents

• Food, water, and medical care while they wait for a chance to leave

They don’t want charity—they are asking for a chance at life; they are looking for humanity. They want the chance to raise their children in safety, to build careers again, to continue learning, to give their babies the futures they deserve.

Please, stand with them now. Every single dollar helps; no donation is too small. Every single share truly matters.

If you’ve ever asked yourself, “What would I do if I could save a life?”—this is that moment. You can do something to save someone’s life.

Thank you—truly—for your compassion, your solidarity, and your humanity. Please know that every single dollar raised gets them one step closer to seeing their children grow up somewhere safe.

With peace, love, and so much hope,

Christina Overholt

**Funds are automatically transferred monthly to an account set up specifically for Ahmed and Alaa. There is a debit card associated with it for when they are able to use the funds to leave and all parties involved in the GoFundMe have access to daily spending activity with alerts to make sure their money stays safe and protected until they can use it to leave❤️**