HELP YOUSEF EVACUATE HIS FAMILY FROM GAZA!

Hi, this is Yousef. He is an 18 year old teen from Gaza, a future AI engineer, boxer and philanthropist.

Yousef's story:

I have been going about my life taking care of my mother and siblings since my dad is out of the country and can only support us financially, so I have taken a big responsibility from a very young age starting at 16. I graduated high-school last year and was on my way to university. I started my boxing career and was planning to join local championships to maybe turn it into a career path along with my studies. I graduated with a score of 97/100, and signed up to become an Artificial Intelligence Engineer in IUG.

My whole life was planned ahead of me, I was about to get my license, work more jobs while continuing my education, and focus on my sporting career. Now, I have been pushed into having the biggest responsibility of all and that is to take care of my mother, siblings, and grandma in a war that no one has ever seen before. It has been a very difficult journey moving from place to place (we are originally from Gaza City) and at the same time trying to survive while losing everything we had planned to accomplish and everything we had before that.

Now, it’s been long enough for us and I don’t know what’s about to come next, so this is my call for help to get me and my family out of Gaza and into safety. It’s been an exhausting dreadful journey, losing loved ones, places, things we owned, and more than that the place where we felt at home. Over time we have seen everything our people had getting destroyed to dust and rubble.

During this time I found the opportunity to carry out the responsibility I had, which was to help my people and make my skills of use. Using my socials, I spread awareness and set up a fundraiser to gather enough funds to build multiple tents for the displaced families around me.

Why 36,000 CAD?:

The heavy bombardment and destruction of the Gaza strip has kept pushing us south until now, where there is no more land to cover. No where to go, no refuge. We now touch against the sea and border of Egypt. Nothing but death and pain awaits the people.

With nothing but hope and courage we have decided to evacuate and look for more habitable lands where we could at least be in basic living conditions. My goal of 36,000 CAD is to arrange the funds needed to evacuate all of my family members from the Gaza strip. The crossing from the border of Rafah into Egypt is currently at 5000 USD per person. having 4 family members, this will cost me 25,000 USD. This fee excludes any travel costs. The remaining 1.5k will help me and my family to sustain ourselves and find accommodation until we fly to the UAE.

This is my story. Your donation would not only help evacuate a family from war but it would gift a completely new life to a number of people, you have the power to change the course of an entire generation to come.

Note: This fundraiser is run by Yousef's friend outside of Gaza, this is because GoFundMe does not operate in Gaza which is Yousef's region.