Helping Jana Tamer to support her family through terrible hardship.

I have been speaking with Jana Tamer's family for about 6 months now. Jana is a brave 15 year old girl who has been through a year of terror and hardship in Southern Gaza. She wishes to launch a campaign to help her family with their daily needs and future, probable displacement costs.

Jana's story.

My name is Jana. I live with my mother, father and 3 younger brothers in the remains of our house in East Khan Younis, Southern Gaza. This area is very close to the separation fence with the occupation, so we are at risk of displacement at any time. We have already been displaced more than eight times - sometimes to shelters in schools, then to tents in Rafah, and also to tents in the humanitarian area in Khan Younis. Then we eventually moved back to our house. The area is very dangerous and we regularly receive new evacuation orders.

Many times now we could not afford the transportation costs so we ended up staying in the danger zone. Displacement costs about £1000 each time, for transport, a tent, and a bathroom. Often, we are displaced under bombardment and cannot take our belongings with us, so we have to purchase what we need during displacement.

The prices now can reach up to 10 times higher than before, or even more. For example, the price of a bag of flour today has reached 40 times its price from two months ago.

My parents lost their sources of income from the very first day of the war, and we need support to provide for our basic needs: vegetables, essential food items like rice, lentils, sugar, oil, and similar items, cleaning supplies, cooking gas, and clothes. All the clothes we left behind when we first fled at the beginning of the war were damaged by shrapnel and bullets, and the clothes we had with us have worn out from over use. We also need blankets because we are currently using many of them to cover the destroyed windows.

We used to live a dignified and peaceful life. Both of my parents had their jobs, and I would go to school, learn, and help my mother with housework, and we would go out for walks. Gaza was a beautiful place. Now we are deprived of everything. I lost my right to an education, and there is no longer time or place for leisure. Gaza has turned into a pile of rubble. Security, peace, and comfort are gone, replaced by fear, instability, suffering, hunger, and deprivation.

I hope to take online English courses, but they require money, a good internet connection, and a good phone.

Nowadays, I help my father, mother, and siblings with collecting water, gathering wood, and lighting the fire since we don't have gas for cooking. We are forced to light a fire to cook whatever food we have and to heat water for bathing in this cold. I also help my mother in baking bread if we have flour.

My goal with this campaign is to raise money for the daily living expenses of my family and for future displacement costs.

Anything you can give would be greatly appreciated.