Help Sondos Mohammed and her family
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Hi, my name is Veronica and I'm based in Toronto, Canada. I am fundraising on behalf of my friend Sondos Mohammed and her family, who are in Gaza. Sondos asked me to help her create a campaign as she is desperate to get her family to safety and the situation in Gaza gets more dire by the minute. Not to mention that winter is coming soon, which only further exacerbates their daily hardships.
This is her story:
"Sondos Mohammed Shbair, I am 22 years old, I am from Khan Younis, Gaza Strip. I am a student at the Islamic University of Gaza which was destroyed by the Israeli occupation. We were forced to leave our house, to leave our beautiful garden, to leave everything and to go for nowhere. From that time we started to suffer from a shortage of everything, like food, healthy water, and medicine. At the same time, we have suffered from high prices until now. We suffered from poor weather, unhealthy food, unhealthy water, diseases, problems, etc.
We left our house but we can't go back because it is destroyed completely, there is no house, there is no fantastic garden, there is no good sleeping, and there is no comfort.
Also, they destroyed our works; our marble factory, our gas station, and our chicken farm. Now we have nothing, our money is completely finished.
My goals are: to protect my family by leaving Gaza also to treat my father, who suffers from chronic diseases and osteoporosis and to complete my studies outside of Gaza as my university is completely destroyed.
If you can help my family and me please help, and I am going to appreciate any donation, even a small one, which would make a huge difference in alleviating our suffering.
Please consider sharing my campaign widely with your family and your friends to reach my goal because every second is a risk of death in Gaza. I will be eternally grateful for your generous help in this difficult time. And thank you so much."
Information on how donations are transferred:
All funds raised will be transferred from my bank account to the bank account of Bilal Mohammad Badwi Shbair using an IBAN wire transfer. Bilal is one of Sondos' brothers and he also lives in Gaza.
How will the funds be used:
The funds collected will be for 8 people in total, 2 of them children (all beneficiaries are in Gaza).
-Sondos
-Fouada, her mother
-Mohammed, her father
-Alaa, her brother
-Mahmoud, a second brother
-Hadeel, sister-in-law
-The two children: Odai and Zeina
The cost to evacuate from Gaza to Egypt is $5,000 per person. This is what the funds will be used for as well as to provide the necessary life needs of food, drink and health supplies in the meantime.
Update from Sondos in her own words from June 7th 2025:
"We are now in a state of great distress. There is no food to eat that we don’t not have flour, and the weather is very hot. We suffer from rodents because the tents are worn out. We can’t control them.
There is no money to buy flour as the price of a bag of flour is $300.I really want urgent help. Imagine this is the fourth eid during the war; Eid without any kind of happiness."
Organizer
Verónica Palacios
Organizer
North York, ON