Save my little family from fear and starvation in Gaza

Hello reader ..

Hello, my kindhearted donor. I hope you will read my whole difficult story and then I hope to receive your kindness and help.

I am Rawan Talal, married to a wonderful person named Muhammad, I am 27 years old, a resident of the Shuja'iyya district of Gaza city.

I have two daughters, the oldest Yasmine is 3 years old and the youngest Rima is a year and a half, we were a simple family living a decent life full of love, tenderness.

my young children had good health and a happy childhood, but from the first moment of October 7, our life turned upside down, nothing remained the same, we lost our warm home.

my children lost their happiness, their innocent childhood turned into a rough struggle for survival.

their health has deteriorated, as they lost access to healthy food and drink , they are malnourished, even a bite of bread is no longer available, to the point that they lost their original skin color.

we have been moving and wandering from one place to another and , yes we have moved more than 10 times since the beginning of the war.

one of the difficult days of the war, yasmine was injured in her eye, which made her always sad and feel pain.

I had a simple house that my husband and I had built after a long struggle. We left it in the first hours of the war. I could not take anything from my possessions and personal belongings. I could not take clothes for the two girls, nor even food, drink, or winter blankets. Unfortunately, we lost our humble house. Yes, it was destroyed, bombed, and all the memories and possessions in it were destroyed. In moments, it was transformed into piles of stones

I used to work as an Arabic language teacher. I love my work, my school was destroyed. My husband used to work as a factory worker in the Al-Wadiah factory, making biscuits and chips. But the factory was also destroyed.

now we have no source of income, we are unable to provide for our children.

My family and I have moved more than 10 times since the beginning of the war, and the last time we fled, the media cameras had captured a video of the displaced people, and by chance my husband, children and I appeared in this video. I remember very well that on that day we miraculously escaped death, and then I lost my cell phone, and now I have no phone that I can use to communicate with others to ask for help

Now we live in a poorly equipped tent that does not protect my children from the cold of winter.

Every time we moved under the threat of new bombing campaign, we do so in rush, so we loose some of my clothes, some blankets, and even some of the tent's components.

My tent is a place to sleep, prepare food, and bathe my children. , the bathroom we use is unsanitary.

My family and I have been living in the tent for more than a year, its a difficult and uncomfortable struggle to survive.

I collect wood to make a fire to prepare food for my kids, unfortunately the constant smoke caused me to have pain and a constant cough, i also have some burns on my hands, Even little Yasmine stepped one day on a hot coals

My husband lost half of his weigh, he goes out every day looking for water, he walks long distances through the danger, the shooting and fire to find and bring back some water in apocalyptic scenes.

My little girl Rima was 7 months old when the war started . She was very young, but during the war I had to wean her from breastfeeding because my milk had no nutritional value because healthy food was not available. Rather, it was milk mixed with pain and sadness. I weaned her and I could not provide formula milk because it cost me a lot. Even eggs had completely disappeared from the markets. Rima grew up, crawled, got her teeth out and because her calcium was weak, she had no milk or healthy food. She was late in walking, but thank God, after a long time she walked. She started walking on sand, so she stumbled a lot and once injured her foot because she fell on a large stone. My little girl Rima needs diapers, but they are really beyond our financial capacity. I put nylon bags for her, but they caused her severe skin infections. So now she moves without diapers and sleeps without them, which makes her urinate on herself and always feel cold and tired, especially at night, which causes her severe colic. Rima is in dire need of providing her with diapers. To become healthier and have a calmer childhood

As for cleaning tools, I hardly have them. The small paper tissues in the market cost a lot, so I had to use their old clothes instead of tissues. I tear them up and make small pieces of them to clean their bodies and use them for them

I will tell you about the winter

mattresses and blankets I have. When we used to flee every time from one place to another, the bullets wouldn’t allow me to take anything except our lives and the lives of our children. Now I only have a few blankets, but they are not enough to face the bitter cold of winter. I put a light rug under my children, and the cold seeps from the ground to my children’s bellies and backs. We put a shared blanket over us, so the two girls suffer from constant illness, severe diarrhea, and intestinal infections.

I need to rebuild my life and my family's life.

Be sure that your donation will be in place for one of these urgent needs:

1. I need a basic source of income for my family so that I can provide for my children's needs.

2. I need a tent with good specifications that I can live in with my children.

3. I need healthy food for my family.

4. I need winter blankets for my children to protect them from the cold of winter.

5. I need heavy clothes for them that are enough to face the winter.

6. I need diapers for my little girl Rima, she desperately needs them.

7. I really need a cell phone, I lost my phone when I ran away once, and now I travel a long distance in danger to reach my mother's tent and use her phone to be able to communicate with others and ask for help.

8. I need a lighting battery, my children and I live in the dark of night with fear and terror, as I have no electricity or lighting.

9. I need medicines and treatments for my children because they are often exposed to health problems, and I need vitamins for them because they suffer from weak immunity.

10. I need personal items and vitamins, I have a severe deficiency in vitamin D.

Finally, I need to rebuild my home and provide a safe life for my children in a safe home.

N.B.: The beneficiary who will receive the funds is my uncle, who lives in the UK. He will transfer the money to me in Gaza via a direct bank-to-bank transfer from Barclays Bank in the UK to the Bank of Palestine in Palestine.

Your standing by my side and your donation could be a torch that lights the way for a simple family's life.. ❤️‍