Help Walaa and her 4 young children survive in Gaza
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Walaa is the mother of 4 young children, including a baby boy born in April. Gaza is considered "the world's most dangerous area for children." It is difficult to find healthcare, fresh food and clean water. Trash, diseases, and rubble fill the streets. It is a struggle to even find diapers or milk for the baby, Jawad.
Please imagine yourself as a mother in these conditions, and what you would want the world to do so that your children could survive.
Currently, the family is living in a tent, and facing the prospect of spending the winter outside, unless they can raise $700-$1000/month to pay for rent.
Donations go directly towards funding this family's survival—to help them buy children's clothes, food, and shelter.
After the war
After the war the family wishes to find a safer place to live, and would like to continue to raise money to help them pay for border crossing fees and resettlement. The cost of each border crossing visa is $2500 per child, and $5000 per adult. There are 5 adults in Walaa's family: herself and her husband, her husband's parents and sister. They will need $35,000 to pay for the family's evacuation. The extra $15,000 included in this fundraiser is to help pay for birthing supplies and milk when Walaa gave birth ($2000), transportation costs to the border crossing and to Egypt (fluctuates, probably between $1000-$2000), site fees for GoFundMe ($1000), and the remaining $10,000 will help them find an apartment and pay for food and furniture when they reach Egypt, until they are able to regain financial stability.
Please donate as much as you can to help this family. These children deserve to live and go to school just like any other child in the world.
Other actions you can take to help:
- Share this campaign on social media. Tag @3_kids_model (Walaa) or @maggieswilder (myself) on instagram
- If you are an artist or have great social media skills, please consider using your talents to create content that will boost this campaign.
- Hold your own fundraiser. If you are a small business owner, donate a portion of your sales from a weekend, or a gift certificate, or a personal workshop. If you are not a maker or an artist, reach out to your network and ask for donations. Hold a yard sale. Cut something out of your budget for a month or more.
[From the organizer: My name is Maggie. I am in close contact with Walaa and her family directly Since the GoFundMe platform is not available in their area, I am collecting donations here with the family's permission, then sending it directly to them through her sister in Turkey.]
Fundraising team (2)
Monica Wilder
Organizer
Knoxville, TN
Maggie Wilder
Team member