Help child refugee Wissam's bereaved family

Help Wissam's Bereaved Family

This fundraiser was set up to help a six-year-old disabled child refugee called Wissam get desperately-needed medical treatment.

We met him living rough in Calais with his family - who had to leave Syria during the Civil War after being targeted as Kurds.

Wissam had Bloom’s Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder. When we met him his big sister had already died from complications of the condition.

His parents were in Calais trying to reach specialist Bloom's doctors in the UK.

Despite all our efforts to help the family, after 14 years of Conservative migration policies, there were no safe and legal routes left that could help him.

His family took the dangerous decision to travel by dinghy across the Channel to the UK in a last bid to save his life.

We are sorry to say that he died at Great Ormond Street a few days ago.

We are now raising money to help the family with their asylum claim so they can stay near to Wissam's grave, and with belongings.

They have a new baby, who was born in Calais just before they crossed – and they arrived in the UK with just the clothes they were standing up in.

You can read more about Wissam’s story here – https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/syria-sick-child-refugee-cuts-34304590.

If you are able to help them this Christmas it would mean the world to them.