Help Us EVACUATE a Pregnant Mother's Family from Gaza
Our team here at Sprout and Blossom feels the heavy weight of this unfortunate reality:
People are trapped in Gaza, and they are suffering.
what can we do?
How can we really help? We've asked these questions, we've felt uncomfortably useless...and now that we've found an answer, we need to be useful.
Thanks to Operation Olive Branch, we have connected directly with a family in Gaza. Meet Mohammed and his family: his pregnant wife Islam, and their 2-year-old daughter Sara. Islam, approaching 8 months pregnant, needs essential perinatal care. She is malnourished, dehydrated, and requires a cesarean birth because of a previous pelvic injury. This is not something they have access to in their tent camp in Gaza, just northeast of Rafah. Their family, now displaced for a third time, is not guaranteed safety in these conditions, let alone access to their most basic needs. They need immediate help to evacuate from Gaza and get to Egypt.
We know the hearts of parents across the globe ache as they wonder "What can we possibly do?" Here's your answer. Here's something you can do, and someone you can directly help to save.
Please donate to Mohammed's GoFundMe, sponsored by Laura Cunningham, vetted by Operation Olive Branch and by our team. We have connected with Mohammed, Islam, and little Sara over video. She kept giving smoochy kisses to us when we chatted.
Social media is making waves–no matter what happens on a larger scale (ex: ceasefire), we can DO SOMETHING to directly help Mohammed, Islam, Sara, their unborn baby, and their family evacuate Gaza.
“Our dreams and future were lost in Gaza, our home and my workplace were lost, and we have nothing left. I want to save my family and my pregnant wife from death in Gaza. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🍉🍉”
1️⃣ ✨ DONATE TO THE FAMILY’S GOFUNDME BY using this link.
2️⃣ ✨ Visit Mohammed’s Instagram @mohamed_.khaled93.
3️⃣ ✨ Change your profile picture to one of these templates.
4️⃣ ✨ Check out Operation Olive Branch to learn more.
We've been watching the numbers tick up and up and up—we believe in Sprout and Blossom’s collective network—
we can accomplish our goal!!
We message with him regularly (you can too!) and our hearts are aching with the reality they are living in.
frequently asked questions
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Yes, absolutely! Our team is in direct communication with Mohammed, his pregnant wife Islam, and their daughter Sara - both in written messages and video calls. They speak very little English, but they use translator technology for messaging.
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Yes…this is a factor about modern warfare that's hard to wrap our minds around. This family lived a modern life like you and me until their home and workplace was bombed on October 7, 2023.
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Operation Olive Branch is a grassroots organization that connects displaced families in Gaza with people around the world who want to help raise funds to get them to safety.
Follow them here: https://www.instagram.com/operationolivebranch/ -
Laura lives in England (this is why the campaign is in British Pounds) and is managing the GoFundMe account as part of Operation Olive Branch. Having a campaign sponsor is a measure done to protect the family’s funds until they have enough to use the money for evacuation.
(Mohammed's family is Line 505 on the Operation Olive Branch Master List and Line 128 on their Perinatal List.) -
Read about it here: https://www.npr.org/2024/03/02/1234439113/palestinians-leave-gaza-egypt-hala#:~:text=But%20Gaza's%20only%20open%20border,pathway%20out%20is%20to%20pay.