The last hope for a war-surviving family

Hi, my name is Suzanna from Ukraine, my husband Ahmed from Gaza, and my two daughters are Lilia and Naya.

We were residents of Gaza, and recently moved to Ontario after a bloody and deadly journey.

We survived six wars, and this ongoing genocide was the seventh!

We had a beautiful house with a garden. After every war we would restore it, but this time it became a military barracks. It was destroyed by tank shells and they burned it after they left it. and now it was liable to collapse at any moment and was uninhabitable.

They also crushed our car under their tanks for no reason!

After this tragedy, the lack of food and water, and the deterioration of our children's health, we were forced to flee to Rafah.

We sat in a tent and it became our home, and we suffered from hunger and diseases, and all this while the bombing and extermination continued without stopping.

The situation started to get worse, they killed more than 45 people from our family, so my husband decided to pay all his savings to the officers at the Egyptian Rafah crossing to escape to Egypt, where he paid $20,000 to allow me, my husband and our two daughters to pass and save our lives.

Indeed, we moved to Egypt. We thought that the matter was over. We did not know that we would begin another suffering. We moved to live in an apartment with three other families. We were 10 people in a small apartment, and my husband, my two daughters and I lived in a room that was barely large enough for one person!

We had to endure, my husband lost all his savings to survive the war, and he also lost his source of income and his job after the army planes bombed the company he worked for, and the company terminated his contract of course! Now we don't have enough money to provide food for our two daughters, and my husband can't find work in Egypt because of the difficult laws there, so we have started getting food aid from some charitable organizations.

Then we started trying to move to Canada under the Ukrainian program, and they actually approved us and granted us a visa, and they told us that we had to travel to Canada to provide financial assistance and provide a home as soon as possible, but unfortunately we did not have enough money to buy plane tickets, and it took time until we collected the amount, as my husband sold most of his personal belongings, and I sold my accessories, gold and ring, and we bought the tickets and traveled before the deadline ended.

In this picture we were happy that we would finally escape after all this suffering, but when we entered Pearson airport, we did not find any Ukrainians to receive us as they told us!

When we asked about them, they told us that they had stopped providing aid! We were shocked! We don't know anyone here, we don't know anyone to go to and we don't have enough money!

We were in shock for three hours waiting in the airport lounge not knowing what to do! Until someone advised us to contact people who personally help new arrivals.

We are now living in a basement thanks to these people, may God bless them.

Why do I want to collect donations?

We got work permits, and my husband tried his best to get a job, but in the end he only got a part-time temporary job that only paid half the monthly rent.

We are short $1,000 a month to pay the rent.

We need your help to raise money to at least to pay the monthly rent for the basement and provide food and clothing for our two young daughters.

We don't want to be compensated for everything we've lost, we just want you to help us start life over.

All the love and thanks for your support and sympathy with us ❤️