I am Raafat Rouk, an 18-year-old Palestinian young man from the Gaza Strip. I once dreamed of becoming an architect, contributing to building and developing the world. But the ongoing war for the past two years has turned my life upside down. Our home was completely destroyed, and we lost our safety, stability, and everything we owned—our memories and our dreams.
I now live with my family under extremely harsh conditions of displacement, homelessness, and severe shortages of food, water, and medical care. In the midst of this suffering, I sustained a serious injury to my left eye that caused me to lose vision in it. Since then, I have been enduring daily, increasing pain due to high eye pressure and extreme sensitivity to light and air.
My condition has worsened significantly after I ran out of two essential medications I relied on to reduce eye pressure and dilate and protect the pupil. This has made my suffering continuous and unbearable. Today, I urgently need a corneal transplant surgery for my left eye, which costs $2,500, in order to restore my vision and relieve my pain. I also need $270 every 15 days (about $540 monthly) to secure the necessary medications, especially with the collapse of medical care and the difficulty of accessing treatment inside Gaza.
My family of six is also struggling under very difficult conditions. My father (48) suffers from a congenital deformity in his left foot that prevents him from working. My mother (46) is doing her best to stay strong despite everything. My brother (20) suffers from keratoconus and weak eyesight. I also have two sisters: Nagham (14) and my younger sister Joud (8).
We are all struggling every day just to survive amid fear, hunger, and the absence of the most basic necessities of life. We have lost our home, our neighborhood, and everything we once knew. Our lives, memories, future, and my dream of becoming an architect have all been buried under the rubble here in Gaza.
Despite everything, I am still holding on to my dream. I want to become an architect to help rebuild what has been destroyed in Gaza and turn this pain and destruction into something beautiful. To achieve this, I need $1,850 per year for four years (a total of $7,400) to cover the full cost of studying architecture.
During this war, we have endured unimaginable suffering—genocide, starvation, displacement, fear, and death—for over two years. We have been displaced 12 times under heavy gunfire, artillery shelling, and airstrikes.
We were first displaced on October 7, 2023, from our hometown Khuza'a in eastern Khan Younis to my grandfather’s house in Abasan Al-Kabira. Soon after, intense bombardment struck nearby, killing an entire family of 37 people who had taken shelter in a house there.
The next morning, we carried our belongings on our backs and fled under fire to central Khan Younis, following evacuation orders. We stayed in a UNRWA school shelter for more than two and a half months. One night, a strike hit displaced civilians at the school gate, killing 12 people, including children, women, and the elderly, and injuring 55 others.
Later, the city was besieged, and we were forced to leave through a military checkpoint under threat, fear, and danger. We moved to Rafah, where we initially stayed in a torn tent for three days in harsh cold and heavy rain. Then we moved again under fire to another school shelter in Abasan, narrowly escaping death.
On February 6, 2024, my younger sister’s birthday, the school was stormed, and we were forced to evacuate again. During that time, I was suffering from severe lung infections that later required hospitalization and intensive care. At a checkpoint, my brother Bashar was detained for three hours before being released.
We moved again to Al-Fakhari, where we lived in a fragile tent for four and a half months. During that time, I returned once to our destroyed home, hoping to recover some belongings and memories. While there, we were targeted by artillery shelling. One shell landed less than 50 meters away, and I was severely injured by shrapnel in my left eye.
I lost consciousness and later managed to crawl to safety under gunfire until I reached the European Gaza Hospital. Doctors confirmed I had lost vision in my left eye due to severe corneal damage and urgently needed treatment outside Gaza. I was prescribed three types of medication: one to reduce eye pressure, one to dilate the pupil, and one to protect and moisturize the eye. The cost of these medications is $540 per month, and I urgently need them.
We are suffering deeply—physically and emotionally—under unbearable pain, loss, and hardship. Every donation, no matter how small, can help ease our suffering, restore hope, and remind us that we are not alone or forgotten.
Your support can help provide basic needs such as shelter, food, clean water, and medical treatment. It can help me receive the necessary medication, undergo surgery, and pursue my education to achieve my dream of becoming an architect—so I can one day help rebuild Gaza and turn destruction into hope.
Every contribution makes a real difference in our lives. It brings hope, strength, and a chance to survive. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for your kindness, compassion, and support.
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April 08, 2026
Tracy Murray
Update from Gaza 💔
Hello dear friends,
We hope you are safe and well. Today, my family and I are going through extremely difficult conditions. We have all been infected with a severe influenza virus that is spreading quickly and seriously threatening our health here in Gaza.
We are suffering from intense pain, high fever, severe coughing, migraines, throat and chest infections, joint and bone pain, and constant exhaustion. My little sister Jude is also very sick, and we are deeply worried about her.
What makes this even harder is that we do not have the means to buy the necessary medications or antibiotics. We are facing this illness without treatment, in the middle of ongoing hardship, destruction, and lack of basic necessities.
At the same time, I am also suffering greatly from my left eye injury. The pain has become unbearable, especially after running out of the medications I depend on to reduce pressure and protect my eye. At times, the pain feels overwhelming, and I don’t know how to cope with it anymore.
We urgently need your support to help us afford:
Essential medicines and antibiotics
Food and clean drinking water
Basic necessities for survival
Your support, no matter how small, can truly save lives. It can ease our pain and give my family a chance to recover and survive.
We are also still holding on to hope. I dream of continuing my education and becoming an architect, to one day help rebuild what has been destroyed in Gaza. I promise you I will not let you down and that someday I will make you all so proud. Your support brings us closer to that dream and helps us raise the $1,850 needed for my first year of university.
Every donation is more than just help—it is a message that we are not alone, that we are not forgotten. It reminds us that there is still kindness, humanity, and compassion in this world.
From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for standing with us. Your support means everything to us and gives us strength to keep going despite everything.
January 18, 2026
Tracy Murray
A message from our dear and brave Rafaat:
From the heart of Gaza… from a torn tent that offers no protection from cold or rain, we write these words with hearts heavy with pain.
Here, we are not living — we are only trying to survive.
Our days and nights pass under a torn and destroyed tent that is no longer fit for living. Fierce winds ripped it apart, and heavy rains flooded it. Water covered the ground beneath us, soaking us and our clothes, leaving us trembling from the bitter cold, feeling as if our limbs may freeze at any moment.
With the arrival of winter, our lives have turned into an endless nightmare.
The torrential rains and violent storms have left us with no refuge. Our tent has completely flooded, our clothes are wet, and our bodies can no longer endure the freezing cold. We have no blankets, no winter clothes, and no safe shelter to protect and house us.
As if this were not enough, I am suffering from a severe skin disease caused by these harsh conditions, the spread of insects, and contaminated ground.
This illness causes intense itching, large sores that bleed and ooze pus, and unbearable pain, along with headaches, fever, and pain in my legs. The doctor told me I urgently need medication, but we cannot afford the treatment.
We are also living with hunger…
Sometimes days pass without enough food or even clean drinking water. We hear the sounds of our empty stomachs, and we feel completely helpless in front of our family and children.
We have no home…
Our house was destroyed during the war. Our memories and dreams were crushed beneath the rubble. We once dreamed of a simple and safe life, but war turned our dreams into constant fear, displacement, homelessness, and endless suffering.
We are not asking for the impossible…
We are only asking for a chance to survive.
We urgently need to raise $2,250 to provide:
A safe, livable tent
Warm winter clothes
Blankets to protect our family and children from the freezing cold
Basic food, clean water, and essential medical treatment
Every day without help means another night of cold, fear, and pain.
A quote from our suffering:
“We are not numbers in the news… we are human beings trembling from the cold, suffering from illness, and dreaming only of one safe night.”
Any donation, no matter how small, and any share of our story, could be the reason an entire family survives the cold, hunger, and disease.
Your support is not just money — it is hope. It is proof that the world has not forgotten Gaza or its people.
From exhausted hearts, and from a tent crying under the rain, we say:
Your help means the world to us — more than words can ever express.
🤍🙏
Please share. Please donate. Be the reason for warmth in this unbearable cold.🙏🙏🚨😓☹️😫😵😩😥😢😰🌧❄️💔🥶😭🙏🇵🇸✌️🕊🤝🍉🙏❤️🩹🥺⚘️🌞🤍💚🖤❤️🙏😥😢😰🌧❄️💔🥶😭🙏👇🙏
A note from me:
Please remember that your donation not only supports our sweet and deserving Rafaat but his whole family including dear little innocent Judy, who endures these same conditions of hunger, freezing cold, the inability to dry or warm herself, exposure and increased susceptibility to disease and dangerous levels of malnutrition. 
December 06, 2025
Tracy Murray
A update from Rafaat:
This war has destroyed our home, our neighborhoods, and our entire residential areas here in Gaza, flattening everything to the ground. It has taken away our lives, our future, our memories, and my dream of becoming an architect who would help build and develop the world — a dream that disappeared under the rubble. It has also killed our loved ones, relatives, and friends, and destroyed every aspect of basic life in Gaza, leaving us without even the minimum essentials for survival.
We are suffering deeply because of all this, and our pain grows every day. Our hardship became even worse when our tent — our only shelter after losing our home — was damaged by an Israeli strike that targeted a house right beside it. All 22 members of the family living there, including women, children, and the elderly from the Nofal family, were martyred. The debris and missile shrapnel flew onto our tent, tearing it apart and destroying it, and I was injured in my right hand. We survived death by a miracle, and since then our suffering has only grown.
With the arrival of winter, our hardship has multiplied. Rainwater flooded our tent and soaked the ground beneath us. Our tent, our clothes, and everything we own were drenched. We were trembling violently from the freezing cold, feeling as if our limbs were going numb from how severe the cold was. Every night of cold and heavy rain renews our misery and deepens our suffering here in Gaza.
Today, we urgently need to raise $2,250 to buy a new tent, winter clothing, and blankets to protect us from the harsh cold and the heavy rains that have flooded our tent and left us shivering through the night, unable to sleep.
Below are some photos👇 showing our struggle as we try to stop the water and floods from entering our tent, and photos of our tent’s floor completely submerged in water.
Every donation or share, no matter how small, means so much to us. Your support will help us reach the needed amount and will directly contribute to saving me and my family from the life-threatening cold and the devastating rains we endure every day here in Gaza.
Thank you, from the depths of our hearts, for every act of support, solidarity, donation, or share. We appreciate it truly and sincerely. Your help is the light of hope that keeps us alive.
October 05, 2025
Tracy Murray
A Message from Raafat-URGENT: You Can Help My Family Survive the Winter in Gaza 🇵🇸
Dear friend,
Because of your past support, my family and I have been able to hold on through some of the most painful and terrifying days of our lives. Thank you — truly — for standing with us when we needed it most.
But today, I need to ask for your help once again.
We have lost our home. We’ve lost nearly everything. And now, with winter approaching fast, we are trying to raise enough to buy a tent — something, anything, to protect us from the freezing cold, heavy rain, and storms that are coming.
You’ve already shown us your heart. Now, I’m asking:
🙏 Will you donate again — or share this — to help us find shelter?
The conditions here in Gaza are unbearable. We are living through a genocide, displacement, hunger, fear, and homelessness. We are just trying to survive — with dignity and hope.
I’ve added new photos so you can see the truth of our situation. I don’t share them lightly, but I believe you deserve to see what you’re helping us through.
💔 Every dollar you give brings us closer to warmth, to safety, and to survival.
Please, if you can, give again.
And if you can’t — your voice still matters. Sharing this with others could save us.
From the bottom of our hearts,
Thank you for your love, your support, and your humanity.
With deep gratitude,
Raafat & the Rouk Family
🇵🇸🕊🍉❤️🩹
August 26, 2025
Tracy Murray
Dear generous and kind hearted friends. Thank you so much for your life saving support of Rafaat and his family.
Some of you may have noticed that Rafaat is facing a new challenge. He is, unfortunately, part of systematic targeting of social media profiles. This is devastating as this is his one and only lifeline to caring people such as yourselves who are willing to carry him through these severe conditions. This has been his only outlet to appeal to humanity.
So I am here to ask you to be proactive in your support. Rafaat is still the kind and stoic human being that we all know and love. He is still in need of everything one needs to live every day. He needs food, clean drinking water and medicine to relieve the pain in his eyes and head. He is still deserving of life.
Creating a new profile and remaking connections with limited internet access is no small job. He is in desperate need of immediate assistance. In the last week he has been reporting to me that his little sister Jude is suffering from malnutrition to the point the she requires three types of prescription vitamins to survive. The cost of the vitamins is inflated to $100 each with the total cost being $300. I have included photos of Jude before the famine and her condition now. 
Once his social media presence stabilizes I will try to find a way to share it here so that he can reconnect and start to advocate for himself again.
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I am Raafat Rouk, an 18-year-old Palestinian young man from the Gaza Strip. I once dreamed of becoming an architect, contributing to building and developing the world. But the ongoing war for the past two years has turned my life upside down. Our home was completely destroyed, and we lost our safety, stability, and everything we owned—our memories and our dreams.
I now live with my family under extremely harsh conditions of displacement, homelessness, and severe shortages of food, water, and medical care. In the midst of this suffering, I sustained a serious injury to my left eye that caused me to lose vision in it. Since then, I have been enduring daily, increasing pain due to high eye pressure and extreme sensitivity to light and air.
My condition has worsened significantly after I ran out of two essential medications I relied on to reduce eye pressure and dilate and protect the pupil. This has made my suffering continuous and unbearable. Today, I urgently need a corneal transplant surgery for my left eye, which costs $2,500, in order to restore my vision and relieve my pain. I also need $270 every 15 days (about $540 monthly) to secure the necessary medications, especially with the collapse of medical care and the difficulty of accessing treatment inside Gaza.
My family of six is also struggling under very difficult conditions. My father (48) suffers from a congenital deformity in his left foot that prevents him from working. My mother (46) is doing her best to stay strong despite everything. My brother (20) suffers from keratoconus and weak eyesight. I also have two sisters: Nagham (14) and my younger sister Joud (8).
We are all struggling every day just to survive amid fear, hunger, and the absence of the most basic necessities of life. We have lost our home, our neighborhood, and everything we once knew. Our lives, memories, future, and my dream of becoming an architect have all been buried under the rubble here in Gaza.
Despite everything, I am still holding on to my dream. I want to become an architect to help rebuild what has been destroyed in Gaza and turn this pain and destruction into something beautiful. To achieve this, I need $1,850 per year for four years (a total of $7,400) to cover the full cost of studying architecture.
During this war, we have endured unimaginable suffering—genocide, starvation, displacement, fear, and death—for over two years. We have been displaced 12 times under heavy gunfire, artillery shelling, and airstrikes.
We were first displaced on October 7, 2023, from our hometown Khuza'a in eastern Khan Younis to my grandfather’s house in Abasan Al-Kabira. Soon after, intense bombardment struck nearby, killing an entire family of 37 people who had taken shelter in a house there.
The next morning, we carried our belongings on our backs and fled under fire to central Khan Younis, following evacuation orders. We stayed in a UNRWA school shelter for more than two and a half months. One night, a strike hit displaced civilians at the school gate, killing 12 people, including children, women, and the elderly, and injuring 55 others.
Later, the city was besieged, and we were forced to leave through a military checkpoint under threat, fear, and danger. We moved to Rafah, where we initially stayed in a torn tent for three days in harsh cold and heavy rain. Then we moved again under fire to another school shelter in Abasan, narrowly escaping death.
On February 6, 2024, my younger sister’s birthday, the school was stormed, and we were forced to evacuate again. During that time, I was suffering from severe lung infections that later required hospitalization and intensive care. At a checkpoint, my brother Bashar was detained for three hours before being released.
We moved again to Al-Fakhari, where we lived in a fragile tent for four and a half months. During that time, I returned once to our destroyed home, hoping to recover some belongings and memories. While there, we were targeted by artillery shelling. One shell landed less than 50 meters away, and I was severely injured by shrapnel in my left eye.
I lost consciousness and later managed to crawl to safety under gunfire until I reached the European Gaza Hospital. Doctors confirmed I had lost vision in my left eye due to severe corneal damage and urgently needed treatment outside Gaza. I was prescribed three types of medication: one to reduce eye pressure, one to dilate the pupil, and one to protect and moisturize the eye. The cost of these medications is $540 per month, and I urgently need them.
We are suffering deeply—physically and emotionally—under unbearable pain, loss, and hardship. Every donation, no matter how small, can help ease our suffering, restore hope, and remind us that we are not alone or forgotten.
Your support can help provide basic needs such as shelter, food, clean water, and medical treatment. It can help me receive the necessary medication, undergo surgery, and pursue my education to achieve my dream of becoming an architect—so I can one day help rebuild Gaza and turn destruction into hope.
Every contribution makes a real difference in our lives. It brings hope, strength, and a chance to survive. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for your kindness, compassion, and support.
Fundraiser Updates (5)
April 08, 2026
Tracy Murray
Update from Gaza 💔
Hello dear friends,
We hope you are safe and well. Today, my family and I are going through extremely difficult conditions. We have all been infected with a severe influenza virus that is spreading quickly and seriously threatening our health here in Gaza.
We are suffering from intense pain, high fever, severe coughing, migraines, throat and chest infections, joint and bone pain, and constant exhaustion. My little sister Jude is also very sick, and we are deeply worried about her.
What makes this even harder is that we do not have the means to buy the necessary medications or antibiotics. We are facing this illness without treatment, in the middle of ongoing hardship, destruction, and lack of basic necessities.
At the same time, I am also suffering greatly from my left eye injury. The pain has become unbearable, especially after running out of the medications I depend on to reduce pressure and protect my eye. At times, the pain feels overwhelming, and I don’t know how to cope with it anymore.
We urgently need your support to help us afford:
Essential medicines and antibiotics
Food and clean drinking water
Basic necessities for survival
Your support, no matter how small, can truly save lives. It can ease our pain and give my family a chance to recover and survive.
We are also still holding on to hope. I dream of continuing my education and becoming an architect, to one day help rebuild what has been destroyed in Gaza. I promise you I will not let you down and that someday I will make you all so proud. Your support brings us closer to that dream and helps us raise the $1,850 needed for my first year of university.
Every donation is more than just help—it is a message that we are not alone, that we are not forgotten. It reminds us that there is still kindness, humanity, and compassion in this world.
From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for standing with us. Your support means everything to us and gives us strength to keep going despite everything.
January 18, 2026
Tracy Murray
A message from our dear and brave Rafaat:
From the heart of Gaza… from a torn tent that offers no protection from cold or rain, we write these words with hearts heavy with pain.
Here, we are not living — we are only trying to survive.
Our days and nights pass under a torn and destroyed tent that is no longer fit for living. Fierce winds ripped it apart, and heavy rains flooded it. Water covered the ground beneath us, soaking us and our clothes, leaving us trembling from the bitter cold, feeling as if our limbs may freeze at any moment.
With the arrival of winter, our lives have turned into an endless nightmare.
The torrential rains and violent storms have left us with no refuge. Our tent has completely flooded, our clothes are wet, and our bodies can no longer endure the freezing cold. We have no blankets, no winter clothes, and no safe shelter to protect and house us.
As if this were not enough, I am suffering from a severe skin disease caused by these harsh conditions, the spread of insects, and contaminated ground.
This illness causes intense itching, large sores that bleed and ooze pus, and unbearable pain, along with headaches, fever, and pain in my legs. The doctor told me I urgently need medication, but we cannot afford the treatment.
We are also living with hunger…
Sometimes days pass without enough food or even clean drinking water. We hear the sounds of our empty stomachs, and we feel completely helpless in front of our family and children.
We have no home…
Our house was destroyed during the war. Our memories and dreams were crushed beneath the rubble. We once dreamed of a simple and safe life, but war turned our dreams into constant fear, displacement, homelessness, and endless suffering.
We are not asking for the impossible…
We are only asking for a chance to survive.
We urgently need to raise $2,250 to provide:
A safe, livable tent
Warm winter clothes
Blankets to protect our family and children from the freezing cold
Basic food, clean water, and essential medical treatment
Every day without help means another night of cold, fear, and pain.
A quote from our suffering:
“We are not numbers in the news… we are human beings trembling from the cold, suffering from illness, and dreaming only of one safe night.”
Any donation, no matter how small, and any share of our story, could be the reason an entire family survives the cold, hunger, and disease.
Your support is not just money — it is hope. It is proof that the world has not forgotten Gaza or its people.
From exhausted hearts, and from a tent crying under the rain, we say:
Your help means the world to us — more than words can ever express.
🤍🙏
Please share. Please donate. Be the reason for warmth in this unbearable cold.🙏🙏🚨😓☹️😫😵😩😥😢😰🌧❄️💔🥶😭🙏🇵🇸✌️🕊🤝🍉🙏❤️🩹🥺⚘️🌞🤍💚🖤❤️🙏😥😢😰🌧❄️💔🥶😭🙏👇🙏
A note from me:
Please remember that your donation not only supports our sweet and deserving Rafaat but his whole family including dear little innocent Judy, who endures these same conditions of hunger, freezing cold, the inability to dry or warm herself, exposure and increased susceptibility to disease and dangerous levels of malnutrition.
December 06, 2025
Tracy Murray
A update from Rafaat:
This war has destroyed our home, our neighborhoods, and our entire residential areas here in Gaza, flattening everything to the ground. It has taken away our lives, our future, our memories, and my dream of becoming an architect who would help build and develop the world — a dream that disappeared under the rubble. It has also killed our loved ones, relatives, and friends, and destroyed every aspect of basic life in Gaza, leaving us without even the minimum essentials for survival.
We are suffering deeply because of all this, and our pain grows every day. Our hardship became even worse when our tent — our only shelter after losing our home — was damaged by an Israeli strike that targeted a house right beside it. All 22 members of the family living there, including women, children, and the elderly from the Nofal family, were martyred. The debris and missile shrapnel flew onto our tent, tearing it apart and destroying it, and I was injured in my right hand. We survived death by a miracle, and since then our suffering has only grown.
With the arrival of winter, our hardship has multiplied. Rainwater flooded our tent and soaked the ground beneath us. Our tent, our clothes, and everything we own were drenched. We were trembling violently from the freezing cold, feeling as if our limbs were going numb from how severe the cold was. Every night of cold and heavy rain renews our misery and deepens our suffering here in Gaza.
Today, we urgently need to raise $2,250 to buy a new tent, winter clothing, and blankets to protect us from the harsh cold and the heavy rains that have flooded our tent and left us shivering through the night, unable to sleep.
Below are some photos👇 showing our struggle as we try to stop the water and floods from entering our tent, and photos of our tent’s floor completely submerged in water.
Every donation or share, no matter how small, means so much to us. Your support will help us reach the needed amount and will directly contribute to saving me and my family from the life-threatening cold and the devastating rains we endure every day here in Gaza.
Thank you, from the depths of our hearts, for every act of support, solidarity, donation, or share. We appreciate it truly and sincerely. Your help is the light of hope that keeps us alive.
October 05, 2025
Tracy Murray
A Message from Raafat-URGENT: You Can Help My Family Survive the Winter in Gaza 🇵🇸
Dear friend,
Because of your past support, my family and I have been able to hold on through some of the most painful and terrifying days of our lives. Thank you — truly — for standing with us when we needed it most.
But today, I need to ask for your help once again.
We have lost our home. We’ve lost nearly everything. And now, with winter approaching fast, we are trying to raise enough to buy a tent — something, anything, to protect us from the freezing cold, heavy rain, and storms that are coming.
You’ve already shown us your heart. Now, I’m asking:
🙏 Will you donate again — or share this — to help us find shelter?
The conditions here in Gaza are unbearable. We are living through a genocide, displacement, hunger, fear, and homelessness. We are just trying to survive — with dignity and hope.
I’ve added new photos so you can see the truth of our situation. I don’t share them lightly, but I believe you deserve to see what you’re helping us through.
💔 Every dollar you give brings us closer to warmth, to safety, and to survival.
Please, if you can, give again.
And if you can’t — your voice still matters. Sharing this with others could save us.
From the bottom of our hearts,
Thank you for your love, your support, and your humanity.
With deep gratitude,
Raafat & the Rouk Family
🇵🇸🕊🍉❤️🩹
August 26, 2025
Tracy Murray
Dear generous and kind hearted friends. Thank you so much for your life saving support of Rafaat and his family.
Some of you may have noticed that Rafaat is facing a new challenge. He is, unfortunately, part of systematic targeting of social media profiles. This is devastating as this is his one and only lifeline to caring people such as yourselves who are willing to carry him through these severe conditions. This has been his only outlet to appeal to humanity.
So I am here to ask you to be proactive in your support. Rafaat is still the kind and stoic human being that we all know and love. He is still in need of everything one needs to live every day. He needs food, clean drinking water and medicine to relieve the pain in his eyes and head. He is still deserving of life.
Creating a new profile and remaking connections with limited internet access is no small job. He is in desperate need of immediate assistance. In the last week he has been reporting to me that his little sister Jude is suffering from malnutrition to the point the she requires three types of prescription vitamins to survive. The cost of the vitamins is inflated to $100 each with the total cost being $300. I have included photos of Jude before the famine and her condition now.
Once his social media presence stabilizes I will try to find a way to share it here so that he can reconnect and start to advocate for himself again.
Organizer
Tracy Murray is the organizer of this fundraiser
