Supporting my family in Gaza amid the crisis

Have you ever experienced seeing your dream broken in front of your eyes and not being able to do anything about it? Have you ever thought about living in a tent in a cold and unclean ocean, sleeping on the sand, without a bathroom or water? Have you thought about living in a place where you can’t meet your family’s basic needs and feel helpless about it?

Hello, I am Yara from Gaza. I am 22 years old from the city of Rafah and now I live in Mawasi Khan Yunis. I study physical therapy at the Islamic University in Gaza. I am now in my graduation year, but my education has been interrupted due to the war.

I made the campaign to take care of 9 people from my family, my mother, father, 5 sisters, and 2 brothers. My brothers include 3 children: Ahmed, 6 years old, Joud, 9 years old, and Menna, 13 years old. My sisters, Salah, 18 years old, Rouaa, 19 years old, and Shahad, 21 years old. Now we are all living in Mawasi Khan Yunis. We were displaced from our city of Rafah and from our home after the news of the evacuation of the city of Rafah. Our home and shops were destroyed.

Before the war, I took a cupping course to support myself, but the war decided to stop all of this.

These are some pictures showing our house before the war. Look how beautiful and tidy it is.

Before:

This is what the place we live in now looks like

After:

I created a GoFoundMe link so that I could help my family with expenses in light of this brutal war affecting everyone, even if just a little.

My university, through which I was building my future, was completely destroyed and erased, and my education stopped. And my dreams were destroyed.

Before:

After:

Do you understand what it means to be in a situation where you have been displaced over and over again, just to reach the only supposed safe area that I ordered you to go to by a much stronger force than you as an unarmed civilian, just to be told that you can’t be there anymore? After you lose everything, like your home, your memories, your friends, your family and loved ones, your job, and everything you have worked hard to achieve...

I want your help in raising money so that we can help Yara and her family and support them in this war. In the end, I hope that you will help me as soon as A small donation from you can make a difference in this campaign.

Asking for your help is the only way I have to rescue my family’s life and future, your help may become our hope when hope is far away from us under these conditions, every dollar you can help with may save a life, bring hope to a tired heart and save a future of a youth one

Please don’t read this as a tragedy story ,, I’m here to ask you to prevent it from getting more tragedy and to help us start our life all over again. I’m here to ask for your help not your sympathy , to ask you to take action whether by donating or by sharing this to everyone you know who can help, please read this with your heart and take action as if it’s your family, your mom, your siblings who are under these conditions