Help me keep my kids safe in Israel!

Hi, my name is Aviva. I am a single mother of 2 little kids and we live in Ashkelon, Israel. There have been thousands of rockets fired at Israel since the start of the war. We have evacuated our home since the war started due to the amount of rockets, 2 of which have fallen in the direct vicinity of our home.

Since the start of the war I have been unable to work. I am now staying with my mom because she has a safe room which we run to everytime there is a siren in our area. Supermarkets have drastically increased prices and now we are looking at food shortages. I need your support in order to be able to get thru this terrible time.

We have been told that the war could take months before we can go back to our old lives. Our old lives now include trauma.

Unfortunately I was in Ofakim when Israel was attacked. I was stuck there for 3 days before I could go home to Ashkelon. There were terrorists hiding on the sides of the roads shooting at cars. I finally managed to get back to Ashkelon where I packed quickly some clothes and went to pick up my kids from their father and ran to my mothers house where she has a safe room. Everytime my children hear police sirens they think it’s another rocket siren and run to the safe room.

This has been a terrifying time for all of us. Any help we can get will help me support my children and mother during this difficult time by keeping my children fed and our bills paid.

Once this is all over we will need to find a new place to live because the apartment we lived in before does not have a shelter and we no longer feel safe in our own home. Unfortunately, the apartments with shelters has not been something I have been able to afford due to the fact that we are a one income household and now especially due to my lack of ability to work during this crisis.

I want to finish off by saying that reaching out and asking for help has been very difficult because it feels like so many people are in need of help now, but for my kids I really need to make sure they have what they need to be able to protect their innocence (if it’s still even possible to) and to give them as normal of a life as possible now during this crisis and afterwards, God willing, when we are going to be given the chance to rebuild and heal from this disaster.