Consider helping evacuate injured children in Gaza

We have been coordinating with an organization that is helping to evacuate injured children and women out of Gaza to get the medical treatment they so desperately need. Earlier this year, we helped support a family that escaped Gaza to resettle in Washington, D.C. We’re thrilled to report that the family is doing well, and the kids are adjusting beautifully in school.

As you can imagine, the need is dire. For example, two injured young people need to be evacuated so they can receive medical treatment in Egypt. One is Muhammad, a 12-year-old boy. The other is Aya, a 22-year-old woman. Both have shrapnel embedded in their bodies from airstrikes hitting their homes. Both lost their parents in those airstrikes. Aya has burns over 37% of her body, and the clothes she was wearing are still burned into her flesh. Another heartbreaking example is a 49-year-old woman with cancer who has not been able to receive any treatment.

A small, scrappy team of Americans and Palestinians with decades of experience in Gaza has been working for months now to help the injured evacuate from Gaza to safety in Egypt. Helping innocent humans survive this genocide is complicated with expenses that include: evacuation costs, medical care, and living expenses in Cairo.

The group is trying to raise $20,000 to continue evacuations. We can verify their requests are legitimate and go directly to the act of helping the injured evacuate to Egypt to receive the treatment they need. How to contribute:

• Venmo: @Jen-Marlowe (no phone number connected, red/white striped donkey avatar)
• CashApp: $donkeysaddle
• Zelle: 1-202-375-3492
• PayPal: jenmarlowe2@gmail.com

Please write “medical care” in your donation message.

LEARN MORE ABOUT DONKEY SADDLE PROJECTS

You can read more from Jen Marlowe including her article, “The prisoners pepper-sprayed while praying,” and the documentary films her production company Donkey Saddle Projects has worked on.

Others that this group has helped

This group has worked directly on the evacuation of nearly 50 people to-date, including:

• Six journalists and their families who have been routinely targeted.
• Human rights defenders in dire need of medical care. One human rights lawyer may have died from sepsis had his evacuation been delayed by even one day.
• An injured nurse (Imad) who had been in a hospital in Khan Younis when it was invaded and all the patients had to flee. Imad had received no treatment for weeks, until the group managed to get him to Cairo.
• A pregnant mother in need of prenatal care.
• An elderly grandmother who ran out of medication and was growing progressively more ill.
• A doctor separated from his Ukrainian wife and kids. They had been able to flee early in war, while he remained trapped in Gaza.

Don’t hesitate to reach out to Jen Marlow if you have any questions about this lifesaving work!