Help Ahmed Rebuild His Life in Gaza

My name is Tiffany, and though I live in the U.S. thousands of miles from Gaza, it is impossible to ignore the devastation that the people there are forced to endure.

I am here to raise funds to help my friend Ahmed Abu Al-Rish in surviving under the inhumane conditions imposed by the occupying military force in Gaza. For months, I have spoken with him and aided him not only with direct fundraising but by purchasing region-specific eSIMs to keep him connected and able to receive help. Now, he is restarting with a new fundraiser in order to afford the basic necessities of water, food, and shelter.

From Ahmed: “Hello, my name is Ahmed, 19 years old from Gaza. I finished high school with a high average and a very good grade, and because of the genocide war on Gaza, I was deprived of enrolling in university. I had dreams and ambitions to study photographic design, but I was deprived of all of that because of the genocide war on Gaza. I was living the best days of my youth. But with the beginning of this war, I became unable to live my normal life. At least our warm house sheltered me and my family until it was bombed for the first time, that damned night. Our house has become like a ghost town. We continued to seek refuge from death there until we were besieged and displaced from our safety under fire to a tent (shelter) in the bitter cold of winter, with the lack of basic necessities of life (water pollution, high cost of living, disease, insect infestation, malnutrition, difficulty of movement, overcrowding), and many other daily difficulties, especially with the significant increase in prices. This was not the first time we had to be displaced. We moved again from a tent in Rafah to another tent in Khan Yunis. I then returned to our destroyed home to repair what we could to find shelter for my family, despite not having all the basic necessities of life (destroyed sanitation infrastructure and water lines, destroying any form of life). Please help me achieve my dream of completing my academic career at university and for my family to survive this genocide and escape to a safe place and travel.”

We appreciate any help you can offer. As artificial scarcity reigns in the Gaza Strip, prices for necessities soar into the hundreds. I have hope that Ahmed and his family will make it through this struggle.