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Hello, My name is Chris Hill From North Wales. I am raising funds to aid my Friend Ahmed Lubbad and his family, to support them in their efforts to help other families and children within the camp In Dier Al-Balah struggling to survive due to a lack of food, any source of income, shortages of clean water and access to medical supplies.
From Left: Ahmeds daughters Sama, Huaida & Eman his wife.
For some months now, I have come to know and appreciate their stoic efforts in not only trying to provide for their immediate family, but everyone else around them who are in dire need.
Ahmeds efforts to provide for the many disadvantaged children in his locality touched a part of my humanity which I could not ignore.
All donations received will be transferred directly to Ahmed by appropriate means and documented. Also, regular updates will be published to this fund raiser documenting the distribution of aid and monies to those in the camp.
The funds raised will go towards the immediate needs of Ahmeds family on a day to day basis to supply the basic needs of existence for his wife and two beautiful children. His elderly Mother and father, the latter having been a doctor at Al-Shifa hospital until recent times and is In need of medical interventions and medicine himself will be their main priority. That Said, funding will also go to support the feeding and distribution of funds to the those in most need within the camp. This distribution has been well documented already on social media.
These are Ahmeds words recently conveyed to me:
I am a person like you, I have dreams like your dreams, I have ambitions like you, but I am in Gaza, not like you. My name is Ahmed Lubbad. I used to live a normal life with my family, consisting of two girls, the first is 6 years old and the second is 3 and a half years old, and my wife's name is Eman. I used to work as an accountant in a simple company. The war on Gaza came, our lives were turned upside down, our dreams and our future were destroyed, even our house was destroyed, and we are now displaced in the Deir al-Balah area. We have been living in tents for 9 months now, and the hot weather is torturing us and our children. I am supporting my father and mother, as my father was a doctor working in the hospital, but after the destruction of al-Shifa Hospital, he was displaced and is now with me in the tents. All I wish for and ask for is to help me and my family to continue living, and I will also help the displaced people in need. I hope and pray for your support and standing with me.
Food and basic life support is heavily limited. Aid trucks will go in one day and be blocked for the next 10. Food and aid is sold, not handed out for free, and at extortionate prices. These prices go up by the minute as the aid supply runs out. Aid trucks are being blocked and sabotaged at the border. Displaced Gazans have no means of income or survival in their tents. I haven't found a shekel to feed my wife and daughters in 4 days. My elderly parents, who are reliant on me, haven't had access to their regular medications for over 6 months.
Throughout the genocide, we have been reliant on external donations to organise initiatives for feeding and clothing not only my family, but all families within range in the camp. The donations also helped my brother, Yahya Lubbad and his children, who remain in North Gaza. His wife has recently given birth there. These donations have now stopped.
I know there is rightly great emphasis on evacuating individuals and families to safety out of Gaza. However, this is not possible for the majority of us. An urgent priority is feeding displaced families in tents and meeting basic life necessities. We do not have any other means of survival at this point. The whole camp is in desperate condition. There is no food or water.
Donations will be used to make meals on a large scale within our range and beyond, given as sums of cash to families in tents to buy necessities, and for psychosocial support initiatives for children if donations are enough.
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