Amjad’s Daughter Needs a Wheelchair Now
A broken arm, one leg, and a father who’s out of options
Notes aren’t cutting it anymore. We’ve been able to help Amjad’s family before — the crutches, the emergencies, the moments where a few hundred dollars made the difference between surviving and not surviving. But this situation is different. This is urgent in a way that can’t be patched with small pushes or quick notes.
His 13‑year‑old daughter has one leg. And now her arm is broken.
There’s no way she could be hobbling around on crutches when her arm is broken and she has one leg. It’s impossible. She needs a wheelchair, and she needs it now.
Amjad’s life has been torn apart piece by piece. His wife and their smaller twins were killed in a missile strike. One twin’s body was found. The other was so destroyed that he had to gather what was left of his baby into a plastic bag just to bury the child. That’s the trauma he lives with every day.
His daughter — one of the only two children he has left — lost her leg in that same strike. Three months ago, this community helped me get her special crutches. You showed up. You helped her stand again. But now she’s fallen, and because she’s malnourished, her bones are fragile. Her arm snapped. She’s in constant pain.
And Amjad is begging for help to get her a wheelchair. He found one for $600, which is unbelievably low for Gaza. But even that is out of reach for him.
Here’s what he wrote:
“My daughter is a young child, barely out of childhood. She lost her leg in the war, then fell from her crutches and broke her arm, leaving her in constant pain. Please help us raise $600 to buy a wheelchair. Every contribution means life and hope to her.”
This family has nothing. Amjad has a back injury that makes it impossible to work. He’s living with his elderly parents in a tent. His father has a hole‑in‑the‑heart condition. His mother recently collapsed and needed a ventilator the hospital didn’t have. They often don’t have food. They often don’t have clean water. They’re surviving day to day.
I can go on and on and list all the trauma and all the hardships they’re enduring, but that’s neither here nor there in this moment. Right now the focus is the wheelchair for this little girl.
The minimum we need is $600 for the wheelchair.
The real goal is $1,000 so they can get the wheelchair, some medical care, and basic food and clean water.
If you can help, please do. Even a small amount gets us closer to giving this child the ability to move without pain, without crawling, without suffering through something no child should ever have to endure.
https://chuffed.org/project/169893-amjads-family-gaza-after-the-disaster-please-help
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