Help get Suria the kidney transplant she needs to survive

Karijn Kakebeeke is organizing this fundraiser.

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Hi everyone, my name is Karijn. I'm a documentary photographer and I'm raising money to make a kidney transplant for Suria possible.

I met Suria in the Netherlands in 2005 when I was working on a photo-reportage on her family (have a look at it here). She and her family had fled Afghanistan in 1998 when the Taliban regime was at its height and after the head of the family was killed by a bomb. Their flight lasted three months. Over land and over sea, hidden between the containers of a freight ship, the three children drugged with sleeping tablets. They sold their home to pay the smugglers and carried only a few documents and the clothes they wore.

Suria in school in the Netherlands, 2005.

After six years in the Netherlands, with another son born in Holland, the family was sent back to Afghanistan. This is when I met them. I photographed their last weeks in the Netherlands and went to Afghanistan to visit them, just a few months after they returned home. Since November 2005 the family has been back in Kabul. We've kept contact during all these years.

Suria is now a young woman of 25 years old and she is very ill. After giving birth to her baby son Elham, she started suffering from kidney failure. At the moment she is dependent on dialysis and in need of a kidney transplant to survive. With the help of friends of friends around the globe we already raised a lot of money to make this possible. A passport and a special health visa to Pakistan have already been arranged. With the last €2500 we're trying to raise, payment for a kidney donation is assured. Please help this become possible and share this message to family and friends.