Support a Gazan artist to restore her life back ..

Hello , My name is Huda Almaqadma and I live in Gaza .

I study medicine in my fourth year, but I like to introduce myself as an artist, because this is all I have ever been, my whole life I’ve been thrilled by the idea of holding a pencil and creating something beautiful, and since I was a kid I never stopped drawing, it has been my way to escape, and it stills ..

and based on that fact , I started taking art commissions through my ig acc

at the same period of time, I was working on my room glow up project, I painted the four walls myself ( it was deadly tiring ), I bought the lights , the chair, bed sheets،and so many things , and thats how my room was slowly reaching its final form , I was in the right way of making money on my own and I was about to finish my year in med school and get closer to graduation, this era of my life had been so busy yet so beautiful, I was shifting between the artist at home and the doctor outside it, like I always wanted , things were going so perfectly well ، but all of this changed ,before I even realize it ,

Every thing I've ever worked on is now taken from me . ( these are some old pics from my room)

Now I feel like be many of my people, the feel of not belonging to anywhere ,

my house got bombed and leveled to the ground a couple of days ago, it was severely damaged before but it could still have been fixed , now it’s nothing but a bunch of rubble, and to this exact moment I think I’m still in denial, I cant believe that this beautiful kingdom of ours has simply fallen, imagine how much memories did these walls held for years , our laughs and cries , the late night talks and snacks or even fights , me drawing in my room ,chasing my cat ,or watching the sunset with my family ,all of this now seems like a hopelessly far dream .

thats our house and specifically my room

And our beautiful car ..

Now to think about my future , I can no longer dream to continue my education here , my university had the same fate as my house, as well as most hospitals, nothing in the whole city was spared from the destruction , im sure you are aware of the horrible things that they’ve done to these safe places , my heart aches for it now more than ever , especially after i volunteered at Nasir hospital for a while to help my people, it became one of the places that i deeply appreciate .

We live in a miserable tent right now , and you might wonder about something like "how does these people mange to live in something like that? Well ,we don’t , life in a tent cant simply be called a life , u can call it a struggle , a survival documentary, but not a normal life

And thats because it lacks the basics, not enough water(either to drink and use ), not enough food (Especially that every thing in the market is now doubled five or even ten times , so unless you have a ton of money ( and nobody have that ) , u cant get any decent amount of food . ), no internet , no electricity ,so freezing at night ،yet so hot at the morning .

here are some photos from my life in here ..

And to talk about our traveling story , until now we evacuated four times , and I pray to god we wont have to do it again, evacuating under the fire has been the most stressing thing I’ve ever experienced, every single time of these we never knew weather were all gonna make it to live the next chapter or not , and we always prepared our self for the worst .

I am organizing this fundraiser to try to restore my life back , Im planning to evacuate as soon as possible with my family , and then try to continue my journey in med school , and below u can find a detailed review for what everything i mentioned could cost :

Thanks for taking the time reading all this ,

kind regards, Huda .