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<div>Hi, my name is Jane and I’m passionate about giving this generation of Afghan girls the education they are so desperate for. My dear friend Lina was able to access education in Afghanistan through charitable donations and has now finished her masters in Germany. Her young niece living under Taliban rule today is not so fortunate. As a 16 yr old girl her education is forbidden by the Taliban government. All her dreams have been crushed. Her future looks very bleak.
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<div>we are parents who was looking forward to meeting are baby Archie . But was sadly born sleeping on 19 /5/2026 we are trying hard to give him his forever resting place and would love to get headstone as we are young parents help would be very much appreciated many thanks Archie mummy and daddy xx
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Archie  born sleeping  on 19 05 2026

<div>Hello, my name is Steve, and I’m raising funds to improve a busy pathway in the heart of the Levenshulme / Rushford Park community.

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<div>Network Rail is currently considering letting the local community paint a mural to brighten the tunnel under the train line on Park Grove — but unfortunately, the footpath leading through it remains in terrible condition. As this is an unadopted road, neither the council nor Network Rail is responsible for its upkeep, even though many people rely on it every day.

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<div>In winter, the route becomes heavily waterlogged and covered in mud, making it unpleasant and sometimes unsafe to use. Although a few paving flags were added several years ago, they only provide limited help.

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<div>Local residents have shown great support for improving the path, and together we hope to fund the delivery and installation of several tonnes of gravel to create a safer, more accessible walkway.

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<div>If this is a route you use — or one you’d like to see improved — please consider donating. Every contribution, no matter the size, will help transform this pathway for the whole community. Any surplus funds will be donated to the Friends of Park Grove Group for their ongoing work maintaining and enhancing the area.

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<div>Please also share this fundraiser with neighbours and friends. With your help, we can make a lasting improvement.

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Park Grove Revamp

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<div>Hi, I am Roshdi from Gaza. 23 years old. A Pharm D student. My family consists of 8 members. My younger brother is in his 2nd year while my younger sister is in her last year of high school. Our dream is to survive the war and continue to thrive in academia and progress in our education. Tragically, the destruction of universities and schools in Gaza has massively derailed our journey and our lives. We have lost a year of our education.
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<div>I appeal to your conscience and humanity to save me and my family from certain death. We live every moment of our lives in terror, fear, and anticipation of an unknown fate. The war machine in Gaza doesn’t differentiate between humans and trees, nor between animals and stones, as everyone is in the target zone.
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<div>I am writing now and the sounds of bombing over our heads are restless.
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<div>We have been living the worst days of our lives for six months, as if we were in ancient times, where water, air, electricity, food, medicine, safety, peace, and humanity all didn’t exist and we are still fighting for life.
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<div>Two months ago, my grandfather died due to the lack of health centers and a severe shortage of medicines as a result of his chronic diseases,
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<div>My mother has a heart problem and needs permanent treatment.
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<div>We used to live on a certain income from my father’s private institution. Unfortunately, we have no income because the institution stopped working since the beginning of the war, and there are no alternatives but to endure hunger and pain.
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<div>My siblings and I are in our prime, we are graduates and university students, and our future has become unknown, as there is no education and no institutions, which have been destroyed.
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<div><strong>This is a photo of me doing voluntary work before the war.</strong>
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<div>Now, we find ourselves at a point of desperation, and we urgently and humbly ask for your help to save our lives by getting us out of Gaza.
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<div>She’s may not be able to speak to me and say “I’m scared” but I know her well to understand her body language and facial expressions. She’s terrified of any sound and runs and hides when she hears the bombing. Lulu hasn’t got access to her food, she’s eats what we eat. Considering the fact we tend to eat canned food and find that it affects our health, you can only imagine what this must be like for Lulu
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<div>‏This war has lasted too long, and our mental health and lives are constantly in danger. We have reached a point where there is no more hope for us here in Gaza. We are just waiting to die. Even if there is a ceasefire, the destruction in Gaza cannot be quickly repaired.
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<div>‏To cross the Gaza-Egypt border at "Rafah," our names need to be listed in the crossing list (paid permit). Coordinators in Egypt, authorized to add my family's names to the list at the border, are now demanding between $5,000 and $7,000 per PERSON! They will not add the names until we can prove that we have the money ready.
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<div>‎‏Your donation, no matter how small, will make an impact. You will be contributing to getting us to safety.
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<div>The funds will be used transparently and every dollar will go towards securing our evacuation. ‏Your support means more than you can imagine and we are incredibly grateful for any assistance you can provide during this challenging time.
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<div>‎‏Thank you for your compassion and generosity.
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<div>مرحبًا، أنا رشدي البوجي من غزة، 23 عاما، انهيت 4 اعوام من دراسة الصيدلة و متبقي لي عامين، عائلتي مكونة من 8 افراد، واخي الاصغر سنة ثانية جامعة كلية هندسة واختي الصغيرة اخر سنة في الثانوية العامة، أملنا الوحيد ان ننجو من الحرب ونكمل دراستنا في الخارج بعد ان تم تدمير الجامعات والمدارس في غزة وضياع سنة دراسية علينا
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<div>اناشد ضمائركم وانسانيتكم في انقاذ اسرتي من الموت المحتم
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<div>فنحن نعيش كل لحظات حياتنا في رعب وخوف وترقب لمصير مجهول
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<div>آلة الحرب في غزة لا تفرق بين البشر والشجر ولا الحيوان والحجر فالجميع في دائرة الاستهداف
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<div>والله اكتب لكم هذه الصرخة والاستغاثة وقصف المنازل حولي مستمرا
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<div>نعيش اسوأ ايام حياتنا منذ ستة شهور وكأننا في العصور القديمة فالماء والهواء والكهرباء والغذاء والدواء والامان والسلام والانسانية، جميعها وضعت في توابيت الموت ودفنت ولا زلنا نصارع من اجل الحياة
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<div>قبل شهرين جدّي توفي بسبب عدم وجود مراكز صحية ونقص حاد في الادوية نتيجة امراضه المزمنة
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<div>مصدر دخلنا الوحيد توقف عن العمل منذ ستة اشهر ولا يوجد بدائل الا الصبر على الجوع والالم
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<div>منهم الخريج والجامعي والطالب ومستقبلهم اصبح مجهول حيث لا تعليم ولا مؤسسات جميعها قد دمرت
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<div>ارجو منكم مد يد العون ومساعدتنا في انقاذ ما تبقى من حياتنا للخروج الى بلد آمن نحتمي به لحين انتهاء هذه الحرب
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<div>وكما تعلمون الخروج من غزة مكلف جدا ولا استطيع فعل اي شيئ سوى مناشدة ضمائركم وعقولكم وقلوبكم لمساعدتنا في هذا الامر
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<div>لقد طالت هذه الحرب، وصحتنا العقلية وحياتنا في خطر مستمر. لقد وصلنا إلى نقطة
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<div>لم يعد هناك فيها أمل لنا هنا في غزة، نحن فقط ننتظر الموت، وحتى لو تم التوصل إلى وقف لإطلاق النار، فإن الدمار في غزة لا يمكن إصلاحه بسرعة
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<div>لعبور الحدود بين غزة ومصر عند "رفح" يجب إدراج أسمائنا في قائمة العبور (تصريح مدفوع الأجر). المنسقون في مصر، المخولون بإضافة أسماء عائلتي إلى القائمة على الحدود، يطالبون الآن بمبلغ يتراوح بين 5000 و7000 دولار للشخص الواحد! ولن يتم ادراج اسمائنا حتى نتمكن من إثبات أن الأموال جاهزة لدينا
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<div>‌‌‏تبرعك، مهما كان صغيراً، سيكون له تأثير، سوف تساهم في إيصالنا إلى بر الأمان
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<div>كما سيتم استخدام الأموال بشفافية وسيذهب كل دولار لتأمين إجلائنا. دعمكم يعني أكثر مما تتخيلون ونحن ممتنون للغاية لأي مساعدة يمكنكم تقديمها خلال هذا الوقت العصيب.
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URGENT APPEAL- Going from "evacuate" to "living"

<div>Help fund Alana's new space to include a wetroom and necessary equipment...
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<div><strong>This is Alana’s story (Written by Alana's Mum, Kate):</strong>
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<div><em>In 2015 we were pregnant with our second child. Having not been able to find out the gender at the 20 week scan we paid for a private scan at 31 weeks. In that scan we found out she was a girl and it showed a large dark shadow in the brain and we were referred directly to a Foetal Assessment Clinic in a Dublin Maternity Hospital. </em>
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<div><em>The team asked if I had fallen down stairs or had a car accident as it looked as if there was significant bleeding in the baby's brain. I had not experienced anything like that and had a healthy, happy pregnancy. </em>
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<div><em>The following weeks I had an MRI to scan the baby's brain more closely and we were seen weekly. We were told that this baby had a devastating brain injury from what they could only conclude was a spontaneous haemorrhage in the brain which was leading to fluid build up which was in turn creating massive pressure on the brain and inhibiting it from growth in certain key areas. </em>
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<div><em>We were told that she would be highly unlikely to survive delivery. We made choices to carry her to full term and make the safest option of delivery possible in order to give her as good a chance of life as possible. </em>
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<div><em>She was delivered safely by elective section at 37 weeks. We baptised her in the hospital with all our families around us. We spent a week in hospital with all family members visiting to meet her and show her love and there was no expectation that we would leave hospital with a baby so we had not got anything ready at home. </em>
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<div><em>We had prepared our 2 year old son for a short time with a baby sister. We called her Alana (which means little girl in Irish) and gave her the middle name Talitha, which is also little girl in Aramaic and is something Jesus said to a little girl in the bible, 'Little girl, get up' and she was raised from the dead. </em>
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<div><em>Amazingly by the end of the first week she was alive and feeding well. Her head was beginning to swell and was very soft all over. We took her home but were told to expect her to die still and so nested with her every day, limiting who held her so that we would not regret a single minute with her. </em>
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<div><em>She lived to one month old with a strong body and will to live and feed in every way except her increasingly growing and swelling head. This meant she had to have her first brain surgery. She was now diagnosed with hydrocephalus, water on the brain, which was building up in pressure and needed to be relieved via a brain shunt/drain in her head. This surgery was successful and her head began to reduce in size. </em>
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<div><em>We then discovered that she had been having seizures during this time and that she was unable to see. Amazingly she is now 8 years old. She has had numerous further brain surgeries for her shunt and her severe seizures which have now been diagnosed as epilepsy. She is also cortically visually impaired, which means she cannot see anything due to the brain injury. She is unable to do anything for herself, though she does have full control of her limbs. She speaks very clearly, albeit not in direct or necessarily relatable conversations. </em>
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<div><em>She takes multiple medications a day to manage these things and for many years took them well orally along with solid food. But in the last few years feeding and medicating her had become very difficult and was affecting her development, her stress levels (and ours) and her medications. So she had surgery to insert a PEG feeding tube last summer to give her food and medications consistently. </em>
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<div><em>That has been very successful and effective. She is a happier child with regular food, her seizures are well managed with regular medication and improved nutrition. And she has grown. A lot. </em>
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<div><em>That means she is no longer as easy to pick up like a baby. She is now a 25 kg 8 year old girl. We now need to manage lifting her differently and that means getting a hoist for her and a wetroom bathroom so she can be washed and go to the toilet. </em>
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<div><em>We have planning permission for an extension to her bedroom to do both those things but the cost is much higher than we expected. We have only half the money for the build which was quoted at €110,000.</em>
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<div><em>Any support you can offer will make a huge difference to Alana – thank you all so much.</em>
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Fundraising for Alana’s Space

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<div>My name is David Challen and I am a child bereaved of fatal domestic abuse. After experiencing a lifetime of coercive control, in 2010, my mother Sally Challen, killed my father in the family home. She was jailed for 22 years for his murder. A decade later, and after years of fighting and campaigning, her murder conviction was quashed in a landmark appeal – <strong><em>her story gave voice to the insidious nature of coercive control to countless victims and survivors</em></strong>. When coercive control became an offence in 2015, it in turn gave me a voice to speak out about what I witnessed in the family home.
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<div><strong>The Impact of Media Reporting on Domestic Abuse Murders</strong>
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<div>My father’s killing impacted me deeply as a young man.<strong> </strong>Yet, what traumatised me the most was how the media reported these events at the time<strong>.</strong> Images of my parents pilfered from their social media accounts and composited together, as if sat together, felt violating. Personal family images of my father were obtained without consent from our family and made me feel like they were ripping my life and memories up in front of me, in my darkest moments.
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<div>The words of people who hadn’t met or barely knew my father were plastered across headlines, calling him a <em>‘gentle man’ and a ‘really nice chap’. </em>This denied the controlling reality that I, and many family members, witnessed. Sensationalist headlines retraumatised me all over again.
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<div>This week, I have seen similar headlines used to refer to the man who has killed Louise, Carol and Hannah Hunt.<strong> </strong>He’s been called ‘<em>pretty normal</em>’ and a ‘<em>nice guy’</em>. I’ve seen images of one of the victims sat next to the perpetrator. It must stop. I know how much damage this reporting causes – both to victims’ families, and to public understandings of how coercive control truly operates.
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<div><strong>The Need for Change in Media Reporting</strong>
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<div>There is a desperate need for dignity in reporting fatal domestic abuse. Families bereaved of these events are retraumatised time after time. <strong>That’s why we need to ensure every single newsroom is trained in how to report domestic abuse deaths, and to lobby the regulator for stronger rules.</strong>
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<div>Fatal domestic abuse is a predictable public health problem that the media plays a key role in preventing with accurate, sensitive reporting. These deaths never come out of the blue – they are always an endpoint to a sustained period of coercive control. <strong>We need a media industry that recognises this and reports it as such.</strong>
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<div><strong>About Level Up</strong>
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<div>Level Up is a feminist campaigns organisation in the UK. Working with victims’ families and criminologists, Level Up created the UK’s first media guidelines on reporting domestic abuse: <em>‘Dignity for Dead Women’.</em> Level Up calls for accountability for perpetrators, and dignity for victims and their families. These guidelines are endorsed by both UK press regulators, but we need to make sure every newsroom in the country is fully trained – and we need to keep lobbying the regulator for stronger rules.
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<div>The media’s framing of domestic abuse murders has a direct impact on public attitudes. Research has shown that articles that romanticise domestic abuse murders lead to more empathy for perpetrators than victims. This affects everything from women’s access to support when experiencing violence, to sentencing of perpetrators. This has to stop.
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<div>Responsible reporting improves public understanding of domestic abuse, avoids causing harm to victims' families and helps women at risk access support.
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<div>Level Up works with expert journalists to deliver newsroom trainings to ensure the media use their role to prevent, not perpetuate, domestic abuse myths.
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<div>So far Level Up has trained 500 journalists over the last five years. <strong><em>£10,000 will will allow them to team up with expert journalists to deliver training for every newsroom in the UK in one year. </em></strong>
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<div>Level Up's training programme has been developed by victims’ families, criminologists and journalists. Media reporting on suicide has drastically improved as a result of newsroom trainings – we need to create the same cultural change for domestic abuse.
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<li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jun/08/my-mother-sally-challen-killed-my-father-finally-justice" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jun/08/my-mother-sally-challen-killed-my-father-finally-justice</a>
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<li><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/women/domestic-violence-household-what-to-do-guidelines-reporting-level-up-media-a8574036.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/women/domestic-violence-household-what-to-do-guidelines-reporting-level-up-media-a8574036.html" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/women/domestic-violence-household-what-to-do-guidelines-reporting-level-up-media-a8574036.html</a></a>
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<li><a href="https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/claygate-murder-victim-really-nice-4818868" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/claygate-murder-victim-really-nice-4818868" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/claygate-murder-victim-really-nice-4818868</a></a>
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<li><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/domestic-abuse-victims-like-mum-sally-challen-need-control-stories" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/domestic-abuse-victims-like-mum-sally-challen-need-control-stories/" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/domestic-abuse-victims-like-mum-sally-challen-need-control-stories/</a></a>
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<div>My name is Yezzan Khalil and this is the Ramadan Family from Tal Al Hawa, Gaza City. Father of the Ramadan family, Hanni is the life long best friend to my Dad (also Palestinian) and we worry about him and his families safety every single day.
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<div>Hanni and his family have lost everything in the conflict so we are raising funds to help him and his family rebuild what they can of their lives and still provide for their family.
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<div>One week after the start of the war in Gaza, Hanni and his family had to evacuate their home due to heavy bombing in his neighbourhood. They headed to Khan Younis to stay with a relative, where they would then share a 16 meter squared house with 70 others. They spent 2 months living in Khan Younis, a place they were told to move to in order to be ‘safe’ but as the air strikes continued, the conditions in Khan Younis got so bad, they were forced to evacuate again.
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<div>In Rafah, the conditions are dire. It is winter, there is very little food, no access to warm or even clean clothes and no heat.
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<div>Since moving to Rafah, Hanni has been made aware that their beloved family home is now nothing more than rubble. They have lost everything they owned, everything they bought and everything they built. Outside of Raffa, they have no home to return to.
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<div>The funds raised will provide for safe passage and will ease some of the overwhelming financial strain they will experience once the war is over and they are left to rebuild everything that has been destroyed. The donations show Hanni and his family that they are not alone, that people care and are doing the best they can to support Palestine in any way they can.
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<div>Our basic necessities like clean water and a bed to sleep in have become unaffordable luxuries to most Gazans.
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<div>Please donate today to help rebuild the life that Hanni and his family have lost.
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<div>On 16 June 2022 our 19-year-old daughter Amelia (Mia) Dean was attacked by a Bison while hiking in Custer State Park in South Dakota and we are fundraising so that she can receive the best treatment possible for her injury.
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<div>Mia sustained a completely severed femoral artery from the incident and severe damage to both her tibial and peroneal nerves (part of the sciatic nerve). We are beyond fortunate that our daughter is still breathing, as she should have bled out in 2-8 minutes after the severed artery and the ambulance didn’t arrive for 20 minutes. It is a miracle that she is alive today. We believe that God put a veil of protection over Mia.
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<div>The staff at Rapid City Hospital have been like a second family and have done everything they can at this point, saving both Mia’s life and leg, performing a bypass of the femoral artery. However, as the artery and muscle damage is healing, Mia is still suffering from severe nerve pain, numbness and hypersensitivity, paralysis and limited mobility below the knee, being unable to walk without walking aids, and managing only about 20 yards. Mia will need a least one operation to have a chance at regaining full motion, and Rapid City Hospital, despite their amazing work on Mia’s injury does not have the expertise nor equipment to properly examine and treat the nerve injury. At this point the full extent of the damage has not even been examined, but EMG and MRI investigations have indicated that this is a highly complex injury, the tibial nerve has been fully severed, the peroneal has been trisected (split down the middle), as well as both being partially shredded and crushed. No treating doctors feel comfortable indicating that Mia is safe to fly, and the peripheral nerve specialist from Mayo Clinic states that he cannot make any real assessments until he has personally seen her.
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<div>Before the accident Mia had been accepted to Edinburgh university, she was going to start in September 2022 having decided to take a year out to work, explore and travel. She is a bright and active young woman, our youngest child and only girl, who is only just beginning her adult life. She has been incredibly strong throughout this whole process, coming close to death, continuing to suffer now and yet still remaining positive. Since she was little she has had a passion for dance, and we can still remember her joy on getting her first pointe shoes and our inability to get her to take them off. As well as having a sense of adventure, love for life and people, she worked for half the year to save the money to go backpacking.
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<div><span class="ql-cursor">﻿</span>We would be forever grateful to anyone who donates, no matter the amount, anything that you can give to help our daughter is appreciated. The people of South Dakota and especially Rapid City, as we are away from family and friends, have been beyond wonderful and a blessing to us and we have nothing but praise for all the staff of Rapid City Hospital. We hope that their kindness and generosity will be extended to everyone else as we humbly ask for help. Amelia, when asked if this experience had put her off coming to the USA, said that she would love to visit the USA again as everyone is so kind.  If you wish to know more KOTA TV have run a story on her.
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<div>We have no idea why this happened to our little girl, and simply wish for her to be able to walk and dance again and live her life to the full, without chronic long-term pain.
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<div>Perez is a gentle, doting father who lives in Manchester with his two young children, C (3) and S (4). The children's mum and Perez's wife, Gloria, is in Uganda and desperately wants to come and live with her husband and children. Sadly, Perez is extremely ill, he has sickle cell anaemia, pulmonary embolism, pancreatitis, DVT along with another, more troubling disease, has recently suffered a stroke and frequently needs hospital care. When this happens, he relies on the kindness of his friends to help look after the children. However, if those friends are unavailable, Perez cannot go to hospital and has to remain at home, seriously poorly while continuing to do his best for his two young children. Perez's health is deteriorating and him relying on friends for childcare is not sustainable.
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<div>The children are already having nightmares about their dad not being there when they wake up and witnessing the only parent that lives with them being so ill is having a hugely negative impact on their emotional health. They are now looking at the possibility of having to go in to emergency foster care if Perez becomes too ill to look after them. Perez is trying to get a visa for his wife/ the children's mum to come to the UK and has a charity who are helping him with this, but it is an extremely lengthy process and we need her and she wants to be here as soon as possible. The quickest way to solve the visa issue is to pay; this would be £1,538 for the visa and £1,872 for the NHS surcharge, and Perez has no way of funding it. I have asked dozens of charities if they can assist but none are able to do so. This is why we are asking for your help.
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<div>I have asked the charity that is helping Perez with his visa to hold all money raised by this.
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<div>The craniocervical fusion surgery and posterior fossa decompression surgery that Jenny had in January 2020 have had a devastating and dangerous outcome. She has been left even more severely disabled and in a relentless intense state of suffering, unable to move her neck and head because it isn’t safe.
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<div>Jenny has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), which is a genetic disorder that causes her to produce faulty collagen. A lot of the human body is made up of collagen so it affects many systems. The biggest problem for Jenny is that the faulty collagen causes the ligaments and connective tissue in her neck to be lax, which means that it can’t support the spine. So the vertebrae and skull move around and subluxate (subluxation is like dislocation). This means that she has CCI (craniocervical instability) and AAI (atlanto-axial instability).
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<div>Jenny’s operation in January was meant to help support the skull and vertebrae below so that they didn’t move around anymore. Other people with M.E. have found that they have the same structural problems and when their instabilities were fixed with a fusion, they were also cured of their M.E. and their reduced blood flow (due to the structural problems), returned to normal when the structure was fixed, and so they instantly had their energy back. So not only was Jenny expecting to wake up from surgery with her life saved from having the structural problems fixed, she thought the severe M.E. would potentially be gone too. Neither of these things happened. In fact, her neck became more destabilised, not only at the fusion site but in additional places all the way down, and the M.E. got worse because the operation blocked the place where she was managing to get a bit more blood through to her head. We all have been devastated.
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<div>What we’ve found out is that, unfortunately, Jenny’s fusion didn’t involve intraoperative traction, which is necessary in some EDS patients to make the fusion effective and curative. Before the operation she should have been tested with invasive cranial traction, where bolts are attached to the skull and then the skull is lifted incrementally by a machine to determine the exact amount of traction that is needed in the fusion and to determine exactly where the skull needs to be placed in surgery. We did not know this before and this test was not done.
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<div>Unfortunately the fusion in January has caused extra structural problems in the vertebrae beneath the fusion, as well as a suspected tethered cord, so the “fix” above might not solve all the additional problems. These things won’t be able to be determined until Jenny actually gets to the hospital in America and the neurosurgeon does all his various tests and figures out exactly what has happened in her neck and if/what other surgery is needed too. Obviously we need to have the money ready for these surgeries too, as well as raising money for the the three invasive surgeries involved in the “fix”. There would be a gap between the “fix” and any additional surgery that Jenny may need, so we also need to raise the money to stay in America for months, somewhere with a hospital bed for Jenny (and potentially nursing care, depending on what state she’s in after the surgeries), between the “fix” and whatever other surgery might be needed.
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<div>We also need to raise money for Medevac flights to and from America, as that is the only way that Jenny can be transported. It will be very risky for Jenny to be transported at all in her current condition. We also need to raise money for intense rehabilitation and physiotherapy that will be needed afterwards too.
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<div>American healthcare is notoriously expensive with lots of hidden costs. We have been given quotes for some of the procedures and other costs but we’ve been told that until Jenny gets there to hospital, we won’t know precisely what money we need to have available. The sum of money that we’re trying to raise involves our best guesses and estimates for the rest. What we don’t want to happen is to get to America and the neurosurgeon to recommend something that we can’t afford and just be stuck. The amount of money feels overwhelming. It is the only hope that Jenny has though. She is worth it.
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<div>Jenny recently had to go to the NHS, after we had to call 999 as she couldn’t breathe because a vertebra in her neck moved and almost completely obstructed her airway. She stayed five days in hospital and there was nothing the NHS could do for her. They don’t have the specialist knowledge, expertise or experience of this. There are only a handful of neurosurgeons in the whole world who have this specialism. None of whom are in the NHS or in this country.
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<div>Jenny is at death’s door and is trying so hard to stay alive. It feels impossible that she can survive a few more days or weeks like this, let alone the months it might take to raise the money. She is deteriorating constantly. She cannot support her head or neck since the operation and has been horizontal with her head supported by a pillow ever since. She hasn’t been able to move off that pillow since the operation.
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<div>Jenny can’t even move a millimetre anymore without a massive crack/subluxation/snap and accompanying movement, without vertebrae being pulled out of their correct position. She can’t move the rest of her body because that causes her head and neck to move or wobble, which causes more cracks and subluxation. She can’t have anyone (or herself) touch her neck or head because even the tiniest amount of pressure against it causes the vertebrae to move wrongly and go further inwards and the skull to sublux, popping inwards.
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<div>Jenny used to be able to raise her hospital bed up at an angle with her head and neck supported by the bed and sit like that for a few hours. Now, it’s extremely dangerous for her to raise the bed as the movement causes further damage and deterioration to her neck. It can cause catastrophic changes. Now, she has to try to raise the bed at an angle once every day for as long as it takes to try and get some food down her and then quickly go down again. It’s very unstable and her skull slides off her neck and her neck slides off her shoulders when she’s raised up; the pillow can’t seem to support her head or neck and her skull appears flattened from the piece of skull that was removed for the decompression surgery. Her skull just slips and slides and sinks down the pillow, jamming down on something it shouldn’t be and also cuts off air more. The neck pain is overwhelming (worse than immediately after surgery). Using the bedpan is dangerous too (even though she has to do it while fully lying down, sliding it under her by lifting her hips up; it still moves her head too much). She also now has frequent urinary incontinence since the operation.
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<div>She has been severely ill and bed-bound for 20 years after suddenly becoming ill in her first term at university. She’s been diagnosed with very severe, multi-systemic Myalgic Encephalomyelitis for most of this time but it wasn’t until 2015 that she was also diagnosed with EDS and it wasn’t until May 2017 that she began to get overt symptoms of instability of the cervical spine and atlas, with numbness, temporary paralysis, lymphatic fluid stagnation and severely impaired blood supply to her head, neck and later, the whole body. In October 2018 she was diagnosed with AAI (atlantoaxial instability) and CCI (craniocervical instability), which have continued to deteriorate. The reduced blood and lymph circulation to the whole body has continued to diminish as a result.
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<p>Hello everyone,<br /><br /><br />It is with a heavy heart to announce that our beloved sister, aunty , wife , mother,  work colleague and friend Mary Agyeiwaa Agyapong (Mary Mo) has sadly left us to be with the Lord.<br /><br /><br />Mary was a blessing to everyone she came across and her love, care and sincerity will be irreplaceable. <br /><br />I am raising this funds for her immediate family; her husband, AJ and her baby girl little Mary, who was born at the time of her demise. <br /><br />It is humane for us to take care of them in every way we can during this heavy and trying time.<br /><br /><br />The funds raised would be a starting point to support them financially by setting up a Trust Fund for her children. And any amount you are led to contribute within your capacity will be greatly appreciated to support the family as she would have reached out to anyone in need without hesitation.<br /><br /><br />May God reward and bless everyone who finds it in their heart to assist. This will go a long way in making life more bearable after experiencing this in unexpected tragedy.<br /><br />May those who have settled in Heaven welcome you home, to a better resting place.<br /><br />You will forever be in our hearts Mary. Your memories are still with us and we will cherish them forever until we meet again<br /><br />We will forever miss you.   <br /><br /><br /><br />  “<strong>Ohemaa Mary Da yiɛ" - Rest well.<br /><br /><br />***please help me share this , thank you ***</strong>
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<p><strong style="font-size:1.0625rem;">On Wednesday 22nd April I will be taking on the National 3Peaks challenge of climbing Ben Nevis, Snowdon and Scafell Pike, the highest mountains in Scotland, Wales and England. Because I am staying safe at home, I will actually be doing it  by climbing the equivalent height of 3408 metres up my stairs, that’s  1243 times up and down.</strong>
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<p><strong>When my friend, Stella Kisob Knowles,  told me of the dire position the her country Cameroon faces with  regards to the Covid 19 outbreak, I wanted to help.   </strong> 
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<p>With limited resources they are trying to raise money  to buy masks to help stop the spread of the disease. you want to join me in making a difference? I'm raising money in aid of CAMDOC UK CHARITY and every donation will help. Thank you in advance for your contribution to this cause that means so much to me.<br /><br />More information about CAMDOC UK CHARITY: Improve Healthcare by Engaging government, non-governmental organization and charities that align themselves with these aims. Undertaking formal and informal needs assessment of primary and secondary health facilities in Cameroon. Negotiating for, acquiring and facilitating the shipment of medical items of no use to the NHS or other institutions to Cameroon where they can be put to good use. Education/training. The advancement of health or saving of lives. Work with other charities or voluntary bodies
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We are Support Workers from Alternative Futures Group, fundraising for our UNISON hardship fund to support us as we have been forced to take industrial action against brutal pay cuts. <br /><br />Our employer is no longer paying us minimum wage levels for so-called 'sleep-in' shifts, meaning we will be struggling to make ends meet.<br /><br />We love our jobs and believe we are worth at least National Minimum Wage for the important and challenging work we do caring for the most vulnerable in society.<br /><br />As carers, taking strike action is not easy for us and especially when we are already struggling financially. Anything you can contribute to our hardship fund would be very much appreciated and will make a massive difference to our campaign.<br /><br /><img src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/38167602_1554117552322776_r.jpeg" width="100%" media_type="3" alt="38167602_1554117552322776_r.jpeg" /><br /><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/AfgPay">Follow us on Twitter here</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Careworkersforchange/">Check out our Facebook</a>

Care At Night, Pay Us Right!

My name is Dave Smith. I am the founder of the Boaz Trust in Manchester, that provides accommodation for destitute asylum seekers and refugees. <br /><br />Sankar Bannerjee is 78 years old. He was a community activist in India. He fled to the UK in 2004 after receiving death threats from Communist Party officials. Not knowing anything about claiming asylum, Sankar lived for several years in London. When he eventually found out about asylum, he made a claim, which was refused. <br /><br />He was destitute and homeless on the streets of Manchester when he was referred to the Boaz Trust,. That is when I first met him, as I was then director of the trust.  We found a room for him in one of our houses, and supported him in practical ways. Legal help enabled him to put in a fresh asylum claim. In 2012 he was given three years Discretionary Leave to Remain in the UK because of his age and poor health. This was renewed for a further three years in 2015.<br /><br />In April this year Sankar will be eligible for Indefinite Leave, meaning he will be able to stay permanently, safe from danger and worry in his old age, but... in the meantime the UK government has massively increased the cost of indefinite leave, which is now £2,297 per person. Sankar, who is living on pension credits, has saved up a few hundred pounds, but has no means of finding that amount by April. <br /><br />Sankar suffers, among other things, from high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, depression, heart and thyroid problems, meaning he is on 14 different medications. <br /><br />He has not seen his wife, who is 64 years old, for nearly fourteen years.<br /><br />Will you help him to gain indefinite leave, so he can begin the process of reunification with his wife, and live his final years in peace, security and comfort?<br /><br />When we have enough funds, I will help Sankar to write the application for Indefinite Leave. We will get it checked by a law centre for free (saving £500-600 solicitor's fees for doing the application). Then, with the money Sankar has saved, we will send a cheque for £2,297 along with the application..<br /><br />If there is any money left over, Sankar will be able to,put that towards the costs of reunification with his wife.

Indefinite Leave for Sankar

<strong>Thank you. ..</strong><br />Thank you for visiting out page. This campaign has now ended and we would like to say a huge heartfelt thanks for all of the kind donations and messages of support we have received. We cannot thank everyone enough, the support we have received is incredible and we are extremely grateful. <br /><br />With much love and deepest gratitude,<br />Jen, Lauran, Ellanor &amp; Katie x<br /><br />-------------------<br /><strong>A statement from the Shah family...</strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong><br /></strong></span>The Shah family have released the following statement and have also set up a memorial site for those wishing to leave their thoughts or memories of Asad. <br /><a href="http://www.asadshahmemorial.co.uk/" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.asadshahmemorial.co.uk/" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.asadshahmemorial.co.uk/</a></a> <br /><br /><em>"On Thursday evening (24th March), a beloved husband, son, brother and everyone’s friend, Asad Shah, was taken away from us by an incomprehensible act. We are devastated by this loss.</em><br /><br /><em>A person’s religion, ethnicity, race, gender or socioeconomic background never mattered to Asad. He met everyone with the utmost kindness and respect because those are just some of the many common threads that exist across every faith in our world. He was a brilliant man, recognising that the differences between people are vastly outweighed by our similarities. And he didn’t just talk about this, he lived it each and every day, in his beloved community of Shawlands and his country of Scotland.</em><br /><br /><em>If there was to be any consolation from this needless tragedy, it came in the form of the spontaneous and deeply moving response by the good people of Shawlands, Glasgow and beyond. As a family, we would like to express our deepest gratitude to all who have organised and participated in the street vigils, online petitions and messages. You have moved us beyond words and helped us start healing sooner than we thought possible. You were Asad’s family as much as we are and we will always remain with you.</em><br /><br /><em>One of our brightest lights has been extinguished but our love for all mankind and hope for a better world in which we can all live in peace and harmony, as so emphatically embodied by Asad, will endure and prevail. Asad left us a tremendous gift and we must continue to honour that gift by loving and taking care of one another.</em><br /><br /><em>We will not be making any further comments on this tragedy and ask everyone, especially the media, to allow us the privacy we need to grieve and heal away from the public eye.</em><br /><br /><em>With deepest appreciation,</em><br /><br /><em>The Shah Family"<br /><br />----------------<br /></em>This page has been set up in in support of Asad Shah who was tragically killed outside his shop on Minard Road on Thursday 24 March. This fundraiser has been launched by myself (Jen) and friends (Lauran, Ellanor &amp; Katie) who are all local residents in Shawlands and regular customers of Asad's. As a resident of Waverley Garden's for over 2 years, I personally got to know him whilst visiting his shop on almost a daily basis.<em> <br /><br /></em>Mr Shah was a popular, well respected and much loved member of our commuity and his death has devastated many. He was a warm and friendy man and he always went out of his way to make time to talk to you - he was more than just our local shopkeeper. He was a friend to many.<br /><br />It quickly became clear to us in the aftermath of this tragedy that the people of Shawlands (and wider) were looking for a way to show their support to Asad's family and we thought this would be a fitting way to do so. <br /><br />We are raising funds for his family to use in whatever way they see most fitting - whether that be to contribute towards funeral expenses, provide financial security for his family in the coming months, or simply to do something in his memory. We know money will never make up for his loss but this is our way of showing our support for him, and showing his family how much he was cared for in our commnity. <br /><br />Any donations, and kind words and memories of Asad will be gratefully received. Thanks, Jen, Lauran, Ellanor &amp; Katie x<em><br /></em>

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