Help and save Awni's family

I am Lisa O'Farrell from Ireland. I have set up this campaign for my friend Awni and his family in Gaza. I have known Awni for many years. Previously I have set up fundraisers to help Awni help others but this time it is he that needs our help to rebuild his life Please read his story and support/share if you can.

Hello everyone

I am collecting donations for my family, and I need a serious humanitarian stance from you to give us hope.

I am Awni Aburouk from Khan Yunis, I am 37 years old, I have a family of 7 people, 2 sisters, 3 brothers and my mother.

I am happy to meet you here in the spirit of humanity to do good and help others.

You are closely and with interest following what is happening in Gaza and its people from famine, killing, and displacement, in light of unbearable humanitarian conditions for civilians and innocent children.

My family is living in harsh humanitarian conditions, we were subjected to five difficult displacement operations inside Gaza after the Israeli war destroyed my village and almost everything.

We lived a very simple life in our small house for many years of suffering and poverty that many people here live.

We struggled and resisted the siege and the poor humanitarian situation in order to stay alive, until everything was turned upside down after the events of October 7 and Israel launched a very harsh war on Gaza.

We were forced to leave our home and flee to a safe place.

We ended up in Mawasi Khan Younis and lived a life of displacement for more than 5 consecutive times in Khan Younis and Rafah. There was no safe place and the bombing was everywhere.

The specter of death and brutal killing haunted us everywhere we went.

My mother had been suffering from an illness that had plagued her for many years before the war and her condition worsened during the war due to the lack of medicine, food and clean water.

We lived in tents under the scorching sun in the summer, and under the rain and storms in the winter in worn-out tents made of cloth and nylon.

I lost many of my friends and relatives, some of whom were martyred as a result of the Israeli bombing, and others died as a result of food shortages, diseases, and the lack of medicine and treatment for them.

Before the war, I owned a small agricultural project that I used to support my family from, but it was completely destroyed as a result of the bombing and Israeli tanks.

I also worked before the Israeli war as a relief volunteer with the help of orphaned children and poor families over the years and provide them with assistance.

Our house was bombed with shells and missiles and large parts of it were burned. We lived near the Israeli border east of Khan Younis.

Now our house is within the buffer zone designated by Israel and we cannot return to it due to the great danger to our lives.

We are still living in tents.

This is my story, and I am here to ask for your help so that my family can live a simple life in which we can provide our food, water, clothes and medicines, which have become very expensive and are not widely available, and so that we can replace the worn-out tents or rent a small house to shelter my family from the storms and the harsh winter cold.

I hope that this appeal will reach your hearts and souls in order to help us and save what remains so that we can move forward.

I ask those who read or see our suffering to help us with whatever you can, and to participate and tell others about our tragedies.

I ask you to donate and stand by us so that we cannot lose hope

And rebuild our lives anew.

So I call on you from here to join hands with one heart and one hand to provide urgent assistance to his family, to provide together something that will relieve the innocent people there who cannot bear the burdens of wars. Sooner or later we will remember that we did something to support them and did not stand idly by.

May God bless you all, and I await your donations that will fill the heart of Awni and his family with joy and hope