SAVE GAZA INJURED FROM PAIN & PROVIDE TENT TARPS FOR WINTER

My name is Nina Christine Gorman (D.O.B. 11-18-57) a psychotherapist and part time social science teacher in Philadelphia, PA, USA. I came to know Mohammed Khalil Al Najjar (D.O.B. 3/6/2002) from Khan Yunis, Gaza about the middle of the current horrific war in Gaza through face book social media messaging for his work in rescuing the injured when ambulances are blocked by the occupation, distributing food and water and helping the injured after bombardments with wrapping and cleaning wounds, getting them the hospital, recruiting others to give them blood, and providing them with water, a little food and especially pain medications, burn ointments, bandages, and antibiotics that are not often available due to the blockade by the occupation of medical treatment supplies (and therefore must be purchased from private pharmacies where they are increasingly more scarce and expensive).

Some adults and children still must endure the horror of amputations and operations with no anesthesia unless funds can be provided from private sources. Even if anesthesia is provided in hospital , pre and post operation pain medications and antibiotics are often not provided due to scarcity and blockade by the occupation Mohammed has been doing this with help of some dedicated friends for the entire war including rescuing the injured from rubble with a drill, transporting them to hospital with drivers of cars, donkeys and horse carts (since civic defense and ambulances cannot travel post bombings or are blocked from travel of the occupation), as well as recruiting and transport of blood donors for the injured and supplying the injured with some basic food and water for a few days and medications for as long as he can. I am doing this campaign to help him continue and expand this work to help the injured and also to enable Palestinians to get tarps for their tents.

Recently I found out that since so many in Gaza are getting cold due to winter with tents with no insulation, they need tarp covers to protect from the cold which can also give some protection from flying shrapnel from the incessant bombing that occurs almost every night. The children’s cries rise in unison every night from every camp with each explosion and now they are crying from hunger and also the cold especially the smallest children with their parents in fear of not only famine that is looming but also of freezing and getting sicker with diseases rampant from the medicine blockade and the bombing of nearly all of the water and sewage infrastructure. Therefore, I urge you do donate whatever you can to save lives and prevent this horrible suffering of the injured and those cold and at risk of bombardment who need tent tarp covers to protect them. No human being especially a child should have to endure operations and amputations with no anesthesia, or recuperation with no pain medications or deprivation of antibiotics to prevent sickness and death from infection or freezing in a tent in winter or dying from bombs and flying shrapnel.

The world community of countries is unwilling or unable to help with providing sufficient pain medications and tarps. Those who have tried are often blocked from entry. So if we do not help in these endeavors more will suffer and more will die in this scourge of humanity. Please do not hesitate to give what you can today. No donation is too small. Every dollar counts.

All donations will be transferred from my secure USA bank account to the secure Paypal of Mohammed Khalil Al Najjar.

Here is Mohammed in His Own Words:

My name is Mohammed Khalil Al Najjar from Khan Yunis, Gaza of Palestine. I am 22 years old. Before the war I worked hard in my studies in high school . Despite unemployment in Gaza of over 40 percent before the war and over 60 percent for young men my age, I was able to get work as a farmer which enabled me to assist the poor. I have always had a heart for my people and a desire to help others as my family inspired me to do with doing work to help the poor as a teenager before the war with purchasing and distributing food from the farm to the very poor. Then the war came. My aspirations for my future were crushed with my family displaced many times. There was no work to be found but we struggled to get by and I was determined to do what I could to still help others. So on face book I shared my goals of wanting to distribute food to the poor and to assist the injured who have always had a place in my heart especially for children who lost legs and arms in war after war that we endured all of my life. I have never seen such suffering as this war though with about 18,000 children killed and so many more maimed and orphaned.

When I first heard of children having to be amputated with no anesthesia or suffering burns with no pain medications it tore something inside me. I was determined to do all I could to alleviate their pain and that of their parents who endured the same suffering. I have lost many friends and relatives in the war and had many injured and did what I could to help them but their pain and injuries and my lost loved ones made me even more determined to help others. I am doing this campaign to continue and expand my work of rescuing the injured when civic defense cannot get to them, tie off their bleeding, and get them to hospital . So my friends and I do that work hiring drivers by car, horse or donkey cart and then staying by their side for at least a few days to give them water, a little food, antiseptic and if they need anesthesia for operation or pain killers and antibiotics after the operation. I also get others to donate blood for those in critical condition since blood is always in short supply and many need transfusions.

Now winter is starting and many are coming to me asking if I can help them get a tarp cover for their tent to block out the cold and the wind. Tarps that used to cost 50 dollars before the war for a 6 x 4 meter tent are now 175 dollars. So most cannot afford them. If I could just help some of them, even 100 people I would feel so happy. So many children are sick now with breathing problems and some of the babies die from fever with parents not able to afford winter clothes or blankets. I at least want to help them get the tarps. So I urge you to donate whatever you can no matter how little. All funds will be spent wisely to focus on those most in need for the poorest of the poor for the tents and for the many injured who are now getting hurt at least a few times a week since the bombs never stop and there is no place safe in Gaza. I thank you all and peace be to you all. End the war. We just want peace and an end to the nightmare but until then we are counting on others to help us survive and diminish some of our suffering like what we have never before had to endure.

Here is the Budget for the Campaign:

Prescription Antibiotics (1200 per month for 3 months)

Amoxicillin, Cefaloxin, Dicloxacillin, Clyndamycin $3600

Prescription Pain Killers (800 per month for 3 months)

Lyrica and Tramal $2400

Non prescription Pain Killers (500 per month for 3 months)

Acetominphen and Ibruprohen $1500

Bandages, Gauze, Burn Ointment, Burn Sleeves

and Antiseptics including Benzalconium & Dextran

1200 per month for 3 months $3600

Water for Injured of 1000 liter bottles per month for 3 months $300

Fruit, eggplant, bread, squash & lentils for injured for 3 months $1200

65 Tarps for 4 x 6 meter tents (175 per tarp) $11,375

35 Tarps for 8 x 6 meter tents (240 per tarp) $ 8400

Nails and wood to attach tarps (15 for 100 tents) $1500

Transportation for Blood Donors to and from

Hospitals for injured with average of 4 per car

And 6 per week 40 per round trip for 3 months $2880

Transportation of Injured by Car, Donkey or Horse

To hospital 25 per trip for average of 160 trips per

per month for 3 months $ 12,000

Transportation of rescuers to rescue sites of injured

40 round trips for per month for 40 per round trip

For three months $ 4800

Salary of Team Leader Mohammed Al Najjar

600 per month for 3 months $ 1800

Total $65, 355