Aboud and Family trying to survive a jenny-side

A slide show from Abood

Dear donors and friends,

Aboud has asked us to increase his fundraising goal to $25,000. Due to close proximity to bombings, he has sustained multiple injuries that require medical procedures no longer accessible in his homelands. Of his known conditions, he needs operations to restore his vision, repair one of his eardrums to restore his hearing, and a fracture in his hand that needs to be set. He has also developed Hepatitis C and skin rashes due to the lack of clean water.

The goal is to help Aboud save up enough money so that as soon as the border crossing opens, he can travel to Egypt to get the medical care he needs. The timeline is unknown, and he is still supporting his 9 year old sister and his mother. This means that he needs funds to help his family survive in the interim as well.

Aboud needs as much support as possible with a tent for the winter, food and access to potable water, and for medicines that are still available to survive the ongoing occupation. Please consider becoming a monthly sustainer through this link (https://tinyurl.com/monthly-support), donating here through his gofundme, and having 1:1 conversations with your friends and family to fundraise for Aboud.

Thank you so much for your ongoing support of our dear friend.

In solidarity,

Aboud’s fundraising team

Our collective humanity is built on how we come to the aid of those that are in need of support.

Here is what our sibling Aboud has shared with me:

10/9/24 update

"Today is my little sister Zeina’s birthday. She is crying, and we do not know whether to be happy or to cry. She is crying because for the second time it is her birthday, during this genocide, and she cannot even buy herself a simple gift. How will she be happy when we cannot always find food? Please, my friends. And my second family, she told me to tell you to help her by donating to the campaign so that she can buy clothes for her. I swear I am crying over her condition. Please, after she lost more than half her weight due to malnutrition, help me buy clothes for her. She was beautiful, and as a child she dreamed of studying, and she excelled in her studies. She even learned the Turkish language because she was always watching Turkish series. She is very smart, but the war came and stole everything beautiful from her. She lost a lot of weight, contracted hepatitis, and lost her hair. It started falling out a lot because I was unable to buy detergents. She has no clothes, and she wishes to die. Please help her so I can see her smile. I love my little sister very much. I don’t want this day to pass without getting her something."

"...over the past few days, my left hand has been injured, I have had blood clots, my finger joints have been torn, my bones have been shattered, my hand has been deformed, my eye symptoms have worsened, I have swollen and my vision has weakened, and they told me that I must have an operation when the war ends and the crossing opens.

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Now that I and my little sister have been infected with hepatitis, and my mother has been infected with skin allergies and skin diseases that are spreading among us, I now need an urgent operation on my eye that will be very expensive due to coordination and the cost of the operation, and after that, new lenses for the eye and many necessary medical resources must be purchased.

Make me today appeal to every living conscience in the world and in the country that rules the world, which is America, in which there are many who sympathize with us and stand by our side, to help me cover the cost of the operation for me and buy the necessary medical supplies and vitamins to strengthen my mother’s immunity, regardless of the food, drink and shelter that I need before the winter.

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I need people of conscience to stand by me and help me with the cost of the operation, to pay for the coordination of my exit to Egypt when the war ends, to help me find shelter before the winter, and to help me provide the necessary medical needs and food.

We were bombed yesterday and the day before and I documented everything..."

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"Peace be upon your heart. I always hope that you will be well, you who have a charitable heart.

I introduce myself to you. I am the injured person, Abdullah. They call me Aboud. I am 23 years old. I graduated from the University of Law with a bachelor’s degree. Then my dream was to complete a master’s degree, but the war came to steal everything beautiful from me.

I was displaced from my village since the 7th of October to this day, and I am far from my home, which was destroyed due to the ugliness of wars. I became displaced in my homeland on the 260th day of this war. I lost everything beautiful in my life (I lost my hearing in the left part of my ear, I lost my house, and my cat. , my village, and many of my family members) I even needed an eye operation and to this day I cannot have it done due to my financial circumstances and the difficulty of the matter.

I am Abboud, who was injured in this war in my ears, hands, head, and chest, which one day caused me shortness of breath, and before a while I was infected with hepatitis.

I have been, and still am, sleeping on the street to this day since the beginning of the war. There is no shelter to protect me from the cold of winter, and there is no shelter to protect me from the blazing summer sun. I do not know what to do, so I have begun to wish for death in every moment of the miserable life I live.

I am Abboud

I have a younger sister and an elderly mother who suffer from a difficult psychological and health condition. My sister also suffered from hepatitis, and she is in a very difficult health condition, mother.

My mother suffers from psychological disorders and war phobia. She even lost her teeth due to malnutrition. She suffers from very strong cramps, and her heart hurts. She is in a very difficult condition.

And here I am continuing to live in order to save my sister and mother at any cost, even if it costs me my life. I only appeal to you to stay by my side. My little sister and my mother, don't let us die alone

Hunger, pain, illness, and fear"

-Aboud