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Hello my name is McKenzie Morgan and I'm a girl from Florida who has always been into helping others and wanting to make the world a better place. My dreams are routed in activism and invention with a goal of making the world a better place while demonstrating creativity. I'm a writer and hope to become a part time journalist.
Over a year ago I met someone who would change my life forever. This person is a Syrian who has shown me a personal look at every day life in the war, and given me the reason for starting this, and helped me to open my eyes to the plight of people around the world and how to help them.
I am sure that most people are familiar with the Syrian refugee crisis and of the many issues going on in Syria. Khaled, my best friend who I mentioned above, is a 17 year old boy born in Larnaca, Cyprus, who has a sister, and a divorced mother and father. As his parents had marital issues they moved to their original town of Damascus, Syria. When the crisis of government oppression in Syria became a huge issue, they temporarily moved to Jordan where they were living out of a car for six months. When they came back Syria would never be the same. He couldn't go to school any longer and his family constantly tried to leave Syria, with something always getting in the way. That was before there was an even bigger mass migration from Syria.
Due to all of the issues with terrorism and the army drafting young men, it has become imperative that he leave before being drafted in a war he wants no part in as a peaceful fun loving teenager.
In donating you would help to pay for the journey from Syria to America where he would be met with open arms from my own family and friends, which he knows.
The issue lies in that there is a difficult screening process for Syrians and the process takes about 18 months. I am hoping to find some sort of appeal and if it is one hundred percent possible for him to come he will go through the process and relocate to Jordan to undergo said process. As of now he is living a life of uncertainty. He has just started school and at the same time the Paris attacks happened, creating more of an issue in Syria with the government drafting at least 8000 more men, and Khaled has become a candidate despite being only 17 and in school. This is why this is so urgent. The way the government has been treating people is abominable and he must get out in order to live a proper life.
My mother and I have known him for long, I know his sister, I've met his parents, I've met his friends and he's met mine. He is just trying to survive. He is fluent in English and hopes one day to become a linguist/translator and wants to finish school, which he would be able to do from a safe place in America, preferrably my home town that has a large Syrian community, where he would easily assimilate into American life.
The only thing I ask for is help in providing someone the opportunity to see life for what it can be and what it should be, free from tyrrany and oppression, where children can be children.
The money goes for travel cost of a plane from Beirut, Lebanon or Amman, Jordan to Jacksonville Florida, and any money left would go to the cost of resettling him here with a charity organization or with my family.
Donation covers:
$500 Trip to Turkey
$2700 Trip on ship from Turkey to Greece (dingys and inflatable boats are way too risky)
$50 for getting to Greece
Etc. such as expenses for food and any other travel
I need these funds as soon as possible. If at all if he could leave Syria and get to Sweden or wherever he ends up, be it my home town or somewhere that will accept him in Europe/Canada by March, that would be a God sent. If he turns 18 it will make things harder and his birthday is March 14th.
This means so much to me because I know I will be helping a bright intelligent person get a better chance at life somewhere they can thrive away from the drama of war and the issues of every day that he encounters due to the war. Above all it will influence his family to leave and be reunited with him somewhere safe away from the bombs and away from the fear and violence in their lives.
I'm so thankful to be given the priveleges that I have living in a country where I have freedoms against my government and from violence, and I would be incredibly grateful to help Khaled and his family out of Syria and into a safer place. This is not a gimmick and this is not a plot to get money, this is just truly from the bottom of my heart a way to help someone I care deeply about in order to give them the life they deserve, and to in turn be able to have him help those in Syria and around him as well.
*The reason why I say either Jacksonville OR Sweden/Europe/Canada is the issue with large influx of immigration. If possible we would want him closest to my family, or where his friends in Europe are. Wherever promises him a better life is what we are aiming for.
Over a year ago I met someone who would change my life forever. This person is a Syrian who has shown me a personal look at every day life in the war, and given me the reason for starting this, and helped me to open my eyes to the plight of people around the world and how to help them.
I am sure that most people are familiar with the Syrian refugee crisis and of the many issues going on in Syria. Khaled, my best friend who I mentioned above, is a 17 year old boy born in Larnaca, Cyprus, who has a sister, and a divorced mother and father. As his parents had marital issues they moved to their original town of Damascus, Syria. When the crisis of government oppression in Syria became a huge issue, they temporarily moved to Jordan where they were living out of a car for six months. When they came back Syria would never be the same. He couldn't go to school any longer and his family constantly tried to leave Syria, with something always getting in the way. That was before there was an even bigger mass migration from Syria.
Due to all of the issues with terrorism and the army drafting young men, it has become imperative that he leave before being drafted in a war he wants no part in as a peaceful fun loving teenager.
In donating you would help to pay for the journey from Syria to America where he would be met with open arms from my own family and friends, which he knows.
The issue lies in that there is a difficult screening process for Syrians and the process takes about 18 months. I am hoping to find some sort of appeal and if it is one hundred percent possible for him to come he will go through the process and relocate to Jordan to undergo said process. As of now he is living a life of uncertainty. He has just started school and at the same time the Paris attacks happened, creating more of an issue in Syria with the government drafting at least 8000 more men, and Khaled has become a candidate despite being only 17 and in school. This is why this is so urgent. The way the government has been treating people is abominable and he must get out in order to live a proper life.
My mother and I have known him for long, I know his sister, I've met his parents, I've met his friends and he's met mine. He is just trying to survive. He is fluent in English and hopes one day to become a linguist/translator and wants to finish school, which he would be able to do from a safe place in America, preferrably my home town that has a large Syrian community, where he would easily assimilate into American life.
The only thing I ask for is help in providing someone the opportunity to see life for what it can be and what it should be, free from tyrrany and oppression, where children can be children.
The money goes for travel cost of a plane from Beirut, Lebanon or Amman, Jordan to Jacksonville Florida, and any money left would go to the cost of resettling him here with a charity organization or with my family.
Donation covers:
$500 Trip to Turkey
$2700 Trip on ship from Turkey to Greece (dingys and inflatable boats are way too risky)
$50 for getting to Greece
Etc. such as expenses for food and any other travel
I need these funds as soon as possible. If at all if he could leave Syria and get to Sweden or wherever he ends up, be it my home town or somewhere that will accept him in Europe/Canada by March, that would be a God sent. If he turns 18 it will make things harder and his birthday is March 14th.
This means so much to me because I know I will be helping a bright intelligent person get a better chance at life somewhere they can thrive away from the drama of war and the issues of every day that he encounters due to the war. Above all it will influence his family to leave and be reunited with him somewhere safe away from the bombs and away from the fear and violence in their lives.
I'm so thankful to be given the priveleges that I have living in a country where I have freedoms against my government and from violence, and I would be incredibly grateful to help Khaled and his family out of Syria and into a safer place. This is not a gimmick and this is not a plot to get money, this is just truly from the bottom of my heart a way to help someone I care deeply about in order to give them the life they deserve, and to in turn be able to have him help those in Syria and around him as well.
*The reason why I say either Jacksonville OR Sweden/Europe/Canada is the issue with large influx of immigration. If possible we would want him closest to my family, or where his friends in Europe are. Wherever promises him a better life is what we are aiming for.
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Kenzie Morgan
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Jacksonville, FL