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Help Aya evacuate her injured uncle & grandmother

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Update: Thanks to your support, Aya’s sick mother and 4 year old brother have safely made it to Egypt, and are receiving the treatment they need. We now must raise the funds needed to evacuate Ala’a, her 18 year old brother, and her father. I am forever grateful for the solidarity each and every one of you have shown Aya.

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Hello, and thank you for visiting my fundraiser. My name is Aya, and I’m a sixth year medical student from Gaza. Six years ago, I tearfully left my beloved family and home to study medicine in Egypt. The calamity that has befallen my family over the past 6 months is impossible to describe. Our house, which we’d invested years of labor and love in building, was bombed, and only part of my family was rescued from under the rubble. My surviving relatives have since been displaced six times, and now share a tent in Rafah. Conditions in their tent camp are highly unsanitary, and the fact that 15 of my relatives are sharing a single tent further worsens the risk of disease afflicting them. The tent is also quite fragile,  and can easily get destroyed or sink when it rains.

I want more than anything in this world to rescue all my surviving relatives, but my
sick mother, brother & father are my first priority for now. My mother, whose health has been fragile for decades, now weighs just 44 kilograms. We have raised almost enough funds to evacuate her, but she cannot evacuate alone, especially in her condition. Additionally, my 4 year old brother has contracted hepatitis A due to malnutrition and the contaminated water supply. I urgently need to evacuate them both, along with my comparably healthy father, before their condition becomes terminal. 

As of March 16, 2024, I have raised $4370 on my gogetfunding campaign for my mother(  https://gogetfunding.com/help-me-evacuate-my-critically-ill-mother-out-of-gaza/ ). With this campaign, I aim to raise $2,000 to evacuate my four year old brother, $5000 to evacuate my father, and $5,000 to evacuate my other brother. These funds will cover the evacuation fees demanded by the Hala Agency, which manages all evacuations from Gaza to Egypt.

Please support my campaign by donating and sharing. Know that your support and solidarity  saves lives, and that my family and I will never forget those who assisted us in our moment of greatest need.

With love,

Aya

Note: This campaign is particularly urgent because I’ve been forced to make up for half a month’s lost time. You see, the fundraiser I started on Gogetfunding a month ago arbitrarily suspended donations to my campaign for over two weeks. At one point, Gogetfunding’s payment processing mechanism also malfunctioned, preventing me from receiving a single donation for a few days. Because of Gogetfunding’s unreliability, I decided to end my campaign prematurely and start a new one here on Gofundme. Thank you again for your solidarity and support
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Estefan Sevilla
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Fairfax, VA
علاء نضال
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