Aleppo and Edlib Earthquake Relief

Aim

I am fundraising to help rebuild two homes and additionally identify and house 200 homeless people through payment of six months rent (£170)

One of the most deadliest and devastating earthquakes in the history of Syria hit on 6th February 2023. The earthquake registered 7.8 on the Richter scale, followed by a second hit at 7.6. The aftershocks caused further devastation.

One of the worst hit cities is war-torn Aleppo, our close families hometown which existed as a broken city for years, and also Edlib. We have lost family members stuck under rubble and surviving family members have lost their homes.

I am fundraising to help rebuild two homes and additionally identify and house 200 homeless people through payment of six months rent (£170 per family).

I would appreciate any help that can be given to alleviate some of the pain and struggles they have been going through. If you would like to help in any other way, i.e. not a monetary donation, please call me on 07833381660. Thank you in advance.

On The Ground In Syria (14.02.2023)

After a week of collecting blankets and clothes, medical supplies and monetary donations from friends and families in London, I travelled to Aleppo on the 14.02.2023. I am familiar with the war torn city, a testimony to a decade of death and destruction by man, and now almost razed to the ground by the earthquake.

No image or footage can capture the dusty desolation. The landscape is grey dotted with tiny splashes of colour - residents bundled against the cold digging for survivors and salvaging what they can. Children play marbles, mothers soothe crying infants. Life will go on. 

I came out here knowing that it is not the immediate relief from this horror that is needed - it is the aftermath. When the earthquake is forgotten by the media, when the aid stops coming through, when Syria becomes news. What will be needed is to rehome the homeless and then to rebuild the community - schools, shops - so that the people can help themselves.

The Work Has Begun (19.02.2023)

It has been less than a week and I am exhausted and the colour of dust. In this short time, we have reached 75 families with food, medicine and shelter. 

All it takes is £170.00 to cover the rent for a family for 6 months. 

All it takes is £170.00 to cover the rent for a family for 6 months.

That's not a typo - I wanted you to read it twice. 

Thank you for the donations so far and I am praying we can reach our target in the next 25 days and then reach more families in Syria to get them through the first part of this crisis. 

Donate and share. If you have any other skills or ideas or would like to help in any other way then please get in touch on my mobile number above.

The Meaning of Loss (21.02.2023)

This was once a house. A home to a family. Just like us. Now it is a rubble - stained with he blood of the family that perished when the first earthquake hit early in February. 

Last night there was yet another earthquake at the Turkish-Syrian border, taking the death toll higher and making more families homeless. Many of the people affected had been in the process of gathering what they could from their broken homes to start again. Their hopes were dashed.

The global community is coming together to help those in Turkey and Syria survive and eventually start again. This crowdfunder is part of the global community and your donations are being added to funds I collected back home and going straight to the brave people of Syria.

Do donate and do share.

Continued Efforts For The People of Syria (27.02.2023)

Thank you to everyone who has donated so far. I am back in London looking logistical support for the people of Aleppo and Edlib - from first aid and sanitary products to intellectual input on how to rebuild the broken homes safely.

The death toll from the Turkish earthquakes is heartbreaking. Some 44,000 people died in Turkey and the numbers in Syria exceed 50,000. I have just heard of yet another earthquake in Malatya, Turkey-claiming another life and more homes. It is frightening to accept that we cannot control natural disaster.

However, we are doing what we can aid the survivors and rebuilding safe homes is my aim. Any amount helps. Please share.

Digging In Hope (02.03.2023)

This is one of the areas that I was helping to unearth any survivors and bodies to give them a respectful burial.

Children here are so very brave. This young boy was here at the home of his friend, who perished alongside his whole family, except one survivor. 

There are no words. (please click on the link) (https://youtu.be/B41BNbyDh20)

This project successfully funded on 16th March 2023