Hello my name is Marcina Perez of Los Angeles. I am helping Maram and her family of 5 children escape Gaza. This is her initial SOS correspondence to me below;

Hello Maram from Gaza, I am determined to work and I lost all my jobs in the war and I need financial help.

Because I need it very much because I have a sick son who needs a wheelchair urgently and there is no one to help me. I can send you some pictures to verify the information. I have no place to go after we were displaced from the Rafah area, me and my five children.

Mother: Suhad Jawdat Arafat Banner (36)A designer before the war, I had a job and a company, but I lost my workplace, my job, and my home as well.

Father: Hatem Rabhi Banner (41)

Children: Arwa Banner (17). This is a high school student. She was supposed to complete her education and graduate this year with an excellent grade, but fate decided that this year would go without education due to the Israeli war on Gaza. I hope you would help her complete her studies abroad.

Jasser Banner (16)

Ibrahim Banner: (14) A disabled child suffering from chronic muscular dystrophy and who does not have a wheelchair. We were displaced from our home without his wheelchair, without any treatment, and without any of the life necessities that this category of people requires.

Muhammad and Eileen, children like any other children in the world, but they lost their childhood. They did not see anything in their childhood except wars. They are not more than ten years old.

We plan to raise the money in USD and send the monies directly to the recipient via Western Union, which is still active in Palestine.