Save Umm Mohamed and her grandchildren’s lives

My name is Asia Rehman and I have created this fundraiser on behalf of Umm Mohamed, the mother of medical student Mohamed Ahmed and her family, who desperately need our help in raising donations to help her and her family evacuate from Gaza to Egypt so she can receive urgent medical treatment for heart failure and to save the lives of her children and young grandchildren.

This is their story as provided to me by them:

"My name is Mohamed Ahmed and I am 22 years old and a medical laboratory student. My immediate family and I consist of 9 people (my parents, 2 brothers, 3 sisters and sister in law) and we used to live in the northern part of the Strip before the October 2023 war, in Beit Hanoun.

My mother, Umm Mohamed, is very sick with a heart condition; her heart functions at only 40% and since October we have been cut off from her medications and medical treatment and she’s getting increasingly unwell. She finds it difficult and painful to walk. We urgently need to evacuate her for medical treatment before she deteriorates.

The bombing around us is constant and most days we are running for our lives while people around us are being killed by air strikes. The young children in our family are terrified they will die and have become extremely traumatised.

We are taking shelter in a tent which has no basic necessities of life. It is extremely hot now, 40+ degrees Celsius, and this is causing Umm Mohamed’s heart condition to get worse and for her to get weaker. It is also difficult to keep her grandchildren hydrated as there’s only a small amount of clean water, and this is making them sick and weak too. The sand constantly blows inside the tent and we can’t breathe. It’s also surrounded by flies and insects. Recently, polio virus was found in samples of water.

In the first instance, we would like to raise money to evacuate our immediate family but there are 17 members of my family in total who require evacuation, including another 2 sisters and their children.

(Our house in the north, now rubble)

(The tent we currently live in as a displaced family)

We rely on your generosity and kindness to help us raise the funds needed to evacuate our dear mother and the children in our family before it is too late. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.