
Help my family evacuate and rebuild our life
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My name is Akram Ward. I'm 32 years old from Gaza. Mai, 27 year old, is my wife, and we have been married for two years. We have a beautiful baby, Mila, who just turned two. We have been suffering for nearly 6 months, and we need your help to raise money to evacuate our family from Gaza and rebuild our life.
People with conscience of the world, please help us meet our first goal of $13000. We need this to pay for evacuation fee, money transferring fee to Egypt. The $2000 extra will be to help set up temporarily our lives there. Ya Hala, the only legitimate company is where we'll go through, which charges 5,000 for an adult and 2,500 for a kid. We have a family member (added here as a beneficiary) that could go to Egypt to register us on the list. We need your donation now!
Our story:
Just two days before the war, we moved into the our own apartment with all new furniture, a spacious refrigerator, and a neat kitchen. It had cost us $50,000—an incredible amount of money in Gaza. We live in an impoverished territory under siege for the last 17 years. My wife and I, a secretary and a English teacher, have worked days and nights to afford this apartment so that Mila has a home to grow up in. We lived there for only TWO days when the building was bombed to pieces. We had to flee with just the clothes on their backs. My wife and I lost our apartment, our jobs, all our money, and the life we worked hard to earn. Mila is so small, yet she also lost everything she has - all her toys, her clothes, her bike. Why must she know loss so early in her life?
The first month, we stayed at a refugee camp mid-Gaza where we eventually had to run away from. We suffered a manmade hunger there. Our family ate only once this whole time, even our baby. Then the displaced were told to leave further South. Our larger family of 17 including us joined the approximately 1.4 million people sheltering in tents in Rafah last year when it was still the last city standing under the razing of Gaza’s infrastructure. Now, April 2024, Rafah might no longer be safe, and we fear for our lives.
We fear for Mila, our sweet child who we named close to Mai, who only knew two year of life without war. She loved sweets and chocolate, loves playing games and singing. When Mai used to work, Mila loved to bring toys and games to her office and play. After work, Mai would take Mila to the sea, to feel that breeze of freedom, the wind knows no border and Mila too shouldn't have to grow up in a world where war and destruction befall on her peers and her people. Please help Mila experience freedom and peace. Please help her grow up and heal from all this trauma.
Fundraising team (2)

Akram Ward
Organizer
Brussels, BRU
Younis AlshaikhKhalil
Beneficiary
Ly Nguyen
Team member