Layla Ashoor

Update: Rewaa Is Still Waiting for Medical Evacuation It has now been another 28 days since our last update, and sadly, Rewaa is still waiting. Her medical evacuation was approved, but she still has not been given a leaving date, and the evacuation has still not been coordinated. Another month has passed with Rewaa continuing to wait for the medical treatment she has already spent almost three years being denied access. Its incredibly painful for Rewaa knowing that her evacuation has been approved, yet still having no idea when she will actually be allowed to leave. After everything Rewaa has already endured, this continued uncertainty is exhausting and heartbreaking. Rewaa and her family remain in the north, still trying to survive under the same devastating conditions they have faced for almost three years. While she waits for the chance to finally receive the treatment she urgently needs, life for her family does not stop. They still need food, shelter, transportation and the basic necessities of everyday life. I would like to take a moment to sincerely thank everyone who has continued to support Rewaa, Mohammed and their two sons, Munir and Siraj. Whether you have donated, shared their fundraiser, checked in, or simply continued to keep their family in your thoughts — your continued support genuinely means so much. The situation has not become less urgent. Rewaa is still waiting for evacuation, and we will continue supporting her until she is safely evacuated and able to receive the treatment she urgently needs. If you are able to donate, please do. If you cannot, sharing their fundraiser can help it reach someone who can. Thank you for continuing to stand with Rewaa and her family. With sincere gratitude, Layla Note; Picture below of Siraj & Munir with their auntie Sahar

UPDAYE; Almost a year later, Mohammed is still waiting. Last week, Mohammed was discharged from the Red Crescent Hospital, where he had been receiving intensive physiotherapy. He has returned to his family, where his mum, dad and siblings are living together in a small room made from metal sheets. It is better than the tent they were living in before, but they are still living in extremely harsh conditions. This is something I want to acknowledge, because it is only possible because of the people who have continued to support this family. Your donations have helped them move away from the tent they were previously living in, where conditions became unbearable, especially during the winter when flooding made things even worse. For that, we are deeply grateful. But better does not mean safe. It does not mean that Mohammed is well. Mohammed remains in critical condition. He was shot in the back almost a year ago. He was just 15. The injury left him paralysed, with devastating internal injuries, and he has since endured repeated medical procedures and depends on a nephrostomy to drain urine from his kidney. Because Mohammed depends on a nephrostomy, his family needs urine bags, diapers, cleaning and hygiene supplies, and other medical supplies to care for it. These are ongoing necessities, alongside the medical care he continues to require. He has a referral from the Ministry of Health for medical evacuation. Yet almost a year later, he is still in Gaza, waiting for the specialist treatment he urgently needs. He turned 16 last month, and he is still waiting for the medical evacuation he needs. His family is a family of six. They are still living through genocide, paying rent, buying food and trying to meet their basic needs while also caring for Mohammed and providing everything he needs medically. Donations have slowed down recently, but the family's needs have not. They still need help covering rent, food, basic necessities and Mohammed's medical supplies while they wait for his evacuation. If you can donate, please do. If you cannot, please share Mohammed's campaign. Every share helps us reach more people who may be able to support him and his family. And to everyone who has donated, shared, checked in, or supported this family throughout these past 11 months: thank you. Truly. Your support has made a real difference to Mohammed and his family, and we are deeply grateful. With heartfelt gratitude Layla

Another update ❤️ Dear friends, Firstly, thank you to everyone who has continued supporting my children and me. Your kindness has made such a huge difference during an incredibly difficult time. Our home We are slowly turning the house into a home, although there is still a lot to do. I’ve bought a dining table and four dining chairs, and I’m still paying off the chairs. I’ve also bought a desk and chair for Azalea’s room, shelves for her room, shelves for Alex, a room divider and a bed for Alex. Azalea’s bedroom is downstairs in what was originally the living room. The kitchen now functions as our living room/kitchen, and there is an opening between the two spaces, so I’ve ordered a room divider for privacy. Her bedroom also has a large door leading to the garden, so I still need curtains for that door. There is still an upstairs storage room with boxes to unpack, much of it books. I only got Azalea’s shelves a couple of days ago, so I still need to put those up. The work The back garden has already taken a huge amount of work. There was a lot of rubbish left behind, along with weeds growing extensively between the existing tiles and stones. I’ve already cleared a lot of the rubbish and overgrowth myself. The shovel was already here, but I bought a broom, strimmer and rake. I still don’t have all the equipment I need. I eventually want to make the garden more self-sustainable by growing vegetables. I’ve collected and bought seeds and a few small pots, but I haven’t started planting yet. I’ll need more pots and containers as I build it up. The front garden is a completely separate nightmare. The landscaping sheet is extremely old and deteriorated, with stones laid over it. Grass and weeds have grown through the sheet and around the stones, and everything has become so old and tangled together that I can’t simply remove the weeds and keep the stones. The sheet, stones, grass and weeds are essentially stuck together and need to be stripped back. For now, I’m trying to clear what I can myself, and I’ll need suitable containers or heavy-duty garden waste bags to dispose of what I remove. I’ve also bought a sander because the downstairs doors are extremely old and filthy. One is the two-door storage cupboard where I keep dry food, and the other is the downstairs toilet door. The downstairs toilet needs significant work. The walls are deteriorating badly and literally flake when touched, so they desperately need replastering. The upstairs bedrooms also desperately needs plastering and redecorating and in general all the walls inside house are not in good condition. The letting agents have said they will not carry out much of this work as it will be costly. Some work requires the landlord’s agreement, and getting these decisions made will take time and I simply cannot afford to get everything done all at once. The shed and front gate The shed has mould and water damage, and I was told it would be removed and replaced with a smaller one. The letting agents have said the landlord has agreed to this, but the landlord is taking a long time to actually arrange it. The plastic roof covering is badly damaged, but I have been told they will not replace it because they consider it an aesthetic issue rather than a health and safety issue, and because they say it would be too costly. The front fence and gate are also a problem. The fence is extremely unstable and wobbles, and the gate has dropped so badly that it is practically on the ground. It has to be lifted to open and close. During a severe flare-up of my back pain, I was unable to lift it, making getting in and out extremely difficult. My health My back has improved since getting proper seating, but I still have daily pain, particularly in my lower back. I have an appointment with a spinal specialist on 7 September. Taking a pause For the time being, I’ve had to let the groups and families I work with know that I probably won’t be able to properly resume my voluntary campaign work until around 10 September. I feel like I’ve been forced into this pause. There is simply too much to manage right now, and I need to stop pushing myself beyond what I can physically manage. My phone My phone has also become a huge problem. For the last few months, on and off, I’ve been dealing with constant storage problems. It repeatedly tells me my storage is full and kicks me out of WhatsApp, meaning I have to keep deleting photos, videos and old campaign material just to use my phone. It becomes particularly bad for two or three days at a time, before settling down for a few days and starting again. The last two days, it has started happening excessively again. Sometimes the phone won’t even let me delete things. It glitches and refuses to delete them, so I have to restart my phone, sometimes repeatedly, just to clear space. It has become a vicious cycle: storage fills up, I’m kicked out of WhatsApp, I try to delete things, the phone glitches, I restart it, and then the storage fills up again. On top of the storage problems, the battery has also deteriorated badly, and I now have to keep my phone charging throughout the day just to keep it running. It is seriously affecting my ability to communicate with the families I support. I simply cannot manage like this. My phone contract ends on 29 August, which is also Azalea’s birthday, although I still have two months of payments remaining on the device. Instagram I have also lost another Instagram account — my fourth account shut down over the past year. The account that was just shut down was one of my backup accounts, and I used to accept around 30–40 collaboration requests a day from families needing help. I also used my different accounts to amplify campaigns and boost videos. Over time, I’ve lost four accounts. My 90k account was shut down about a year ago, followed by two smaller backup accounts, and now this 27k account has also been removed. Every account I lose means another channel of amplification disappears. I now only have my original account left, currently around 67k followers. This is where I run campaigns for my core families, so I need to be extremely careful with it. With four of my other accounts already shut down by Meta, I simply cannot risk losing the one account I have left. It is now my only remaining account for supporting and amplifying these families. Once I have my new phone, I plan to set up a new email address and create another backup account. For now I need to slow down. I need to finish getting the house into a manageable state, look after my health and sort out my phone. I also want to be able to get back to supporting these families as soon as possible. Azalea’s birthday is coming up on 29 August, and after everything we’ve been through, I’m trying to make sure she can enjoy it. Having to step back from the families I support is incredibly difficult because it means so much to me. But right now, I cannot keep pushing myself until something completely breaks. If you are able to support us, whether by donating or sharing our campaign, it would mean more than I can express. Every contribution helps us continue rebuilding our lives and making this house a home. Thank you for understanding why I have had to take this pause and for continuing to stand beside us. With love and gratitude ❤️ Layla

Hello, my name is Layla, and I created this campaign to support Adham Sheikh Al-Eid and his family in Gaza. I first came to know Adham through his cousin, Alaa, whom I have been supporting for almost a year through his own fundraiser. Alaa is just 17 years old, an orphan living with muscular dystrophy and severe malnutrition, with seven younger siblings who depend on him. Through supporting Alaa, I came to know Adham and began to see the enormous amount of care and responsibility he carries every day. Adham is Alaa’s cousin, and I came to know him through my support for Alaa. Over the time I have known him, I have come to realise just how much Adham does for his cousin and how much responsibility he carries on his shoulders. He has been a backbone of support for Alaa, helping him get to hospital appointments, organising his physiotherapy, making sure he has what he needs, and regularly sending me content and updates so that I can continue sharing Alaa’s situation with those supporting him. But as I have come to know Adham, I have also seen how much he is carrying himself — constantly running between the needs of Alaa and the needs of his own large family, doing everything he can to keep everyone going. Adham is 25 years old and lives with his parents, Alaa Omar Sheikh Al-Eid and Hanaa Sheikh Al-Eid, and his eight younger siblings in a tent in Gaza. Together, they are a family of 11 struggling to meet their basic needs. This fundraiser is to help Adham and his family with the essentials they need to get through each day. The funds raised will go towards: * Food and clean drinking water * Essential clothing and shoes for the children * Medicine and basic healthcare needs * Hygiene and personal-care supplies * Education and school-related necessities * Basic shelter and household essentials * Other urgent day-to-day necessities as they arise I have watched Adham spend so much of his time trying to help the people around him. He is constantly running from one responsibility to another — supporting his parents and younger siblings, helping his cousin Alaa, attending appointments, arranging necessities and trying to find whatever his family needs next. He deserves the chance to breathe, too. By supporting this campaign, you can help take some of that pressure away from Adham and help provide his family with the basic things that so many of us take for granted. No donation is too small. Every contribution can help this family get through another day with a little more security and dignity. If you cannot donate, please consider sharing this campaign. A share can reach someone who can help. Thank you for taking the time to read Adham’s story, and thank you for standing with his family. Layla

My name is Layla, and I have created this fundraising campaign for Alaa, a 17-year-old living with muscular dystrophy who has gone for more than two years without the treatment and care his condition requires. Alaa has endured unimaginable loss. His father and brother were killed during the genocide, and his mother abandoned him when he was just 12 years old. Today, Alaa and his seven younger siblings depend on each other to survive through circumstances no child should ever have to face. For the past 11 months, we have been fundraising through Alaa’s main campaign to help him access medical treatment, support his daily needs, and support the needs of his seven younger siblings. Today, we have created this separate campaign for an urgent and practical need that could make a huge difference in Alaa’s daily life: a solar panel and battery. Alaa relies on an electric wheelchair, but he cannot reliably charge it. He has to pay for transport to reach a charging point and then pay again to charge his wheelchair. This is not sustainable and leaves him without the independence he needs. A solar panel and battery would allow Alaa to charge his wheelchair, keep his phone powered so he can stay connected, have light after dark, and power a fan to provide some relief from the unbearable heat. It would also make life easier for his seven younger siblings who share these same difficult living conditions. A solar panel and battery would make a profound difference in Alaa’s daily life. It would give him a level of independence that he is currently denied and restore some of the dignity that has been taken from him by circumstances beyond his control. It would mean Alaa is no longer forced to depend on expensive transport just to charge his wheelchair. It would allow him to keep his phone powered so he can remain connected, reach out for help when needed, and communicate during emergencies. Recently, Alaa spent an entire week unable to leave his tent because of the unbearable heat. But staying inside the tent does not provide relief either, as the heat inside is also unbearable. Leaving the tent in extreme temperatures is not a simple option for Alaa because of his mobility limitations and difficulty accessing basic needs. He is left trapped in a situation where he cannot escape the heat. The main goal of this campaign is the solar panel and battery because they are the most important and costly items. However, this campaign will also help with other essential assistive needs that may arise in the future, such as a medical mattress or other equipment that can improve Alaa’s quality of life. If you are unable to donate, please consider sharing this campaign with your family, friends, and community. Your support can help make a meaningful difference in the lives of Alaa and his seven younger siblings. Thank you for your kindness, generosity, and compassion. Your support means more than words can express. For direct contact with the family: +970 567 968 287 Instagram; @lrwwh434