Hi, my name is Patrick, from the UK. I'm helping Farida to fundraise for families and communities living in Gaza, including her own (*see their names below). I have known her and her family for well over three years, and have been supporting them there for the past three years.

Introduction by Farida:

"This fundraiser aims to support displaced families in Gaza who are facing severe hardship, including my own family. Many families have lost their homes and are living in tents or overcrowded shelters, with limited access to food, clean drinking water, warm clothes and other essentials. Donations will help provide these basic needs to my family and, where possible, to other families in the surrounding community. I will share updates about how the support is used."

What My Family, and Others Around Them, are Facing

Urgent needs include:

• Food — prices are extremely high, and access is limited.

• Medicine — especially for the elderly and children.

• Shelter — they are living in fragile tents with no proper protection.

• Clean water and essential supplies — even the simplest necessities have become impossible to obtain.

Every day is filled with fear.

Every night they sleep under a thin tent, exposed to danger and cold.

Their lives depend on whatever support they can receive.

Why I Am Asking for Help

I never imagined needing to ask strangers for help so my family and others could survive. However, after months and years of relentless war, they have nothing left — no home, no income, no access to basic needs.

Your support — no matter how small — can directly save lives by helping my family and others nearby to buy food, medicine, blankets, and essential supplies.

How Your Support Will Be Used

Every contribution will go towards:

• Food and clean water

• Urgently needed medicines

• Warmer clothing and blankets

• A safer and more stable shelter

• Basic hygiene and survival essentials

Funds will be sent directly to my family, as well as to others where possible, through the few remaining reliable channels in Gaza."

A Personal Message

"It is very difficult for me to write this.

However, I will do everything I can to support my family and, wherever possible, other displaced families in our community.

Your kindness, your compassion, your willingness to help — these things mean the world to us in this time of darkness.

If you can support — through a donation, a share, or even a kind word — I will be forever grateful.

Your support can make a real difference to families in Gaza facing these

difficult conditions.

Thank you for reading.

Thank you for caring.

And thank you for standing with my family and with other families in our

community."

— Farida.

*Farida's family:

"My family consists of my father and mother; my four sisters, Fatima, Diana, Reem; my six brothers, Adeeb, Jihad, Mohammad, Yousef, Hosni, and Adel; their children; and my sister's six children. I am also seeking to support my sick grandmother, my aunt, and my cousin.

All of them are currently in northern Gaza, living under extreme danger, with little or no shelter, no food, and no basic necessities.

In addition, I want to provide support to my mother’s orphaned relatives, who have lost both their parents."

A message by Patrick:

My relationship to these beneficiaries is that they are Farida's immediate family and close relatives, and I have known and been friends with Farida for the past four years.

On the funds:

The funds from all donations here will be transferred via my personal bank account, to the bank account of a responsible family member there in Gaza. They will then be used by them appropriately, and distributed to others in need where possible too, in order to meet the urgent humanitarian needs of their family, as well as those of the surrounding community. Thank you.