It’s rare to feel happy in northern Gaza. But the other day, my sister Soso made me smile.

It’s not a lie that sugar is expensive. 1kg is $80. Frying oil is $70. That donut was expensive to make, even without the sugar. But it’s okay. Even if it means the adults can’t eat, it’s okay. Soso was happy for a few hours. She’s only 4 years old yet her life is already so hard. She’s not growing properly due to malnutrition and trauma. Her mental health is in shambles, not at all how a child should be. Since birth, two wars have come very close to killing her, so we just want her to be happy.

Please help me make her happy every day. A few days ago, she was the happiest child in the world because she ate an apple for the first time in a year. That won’t happen again because fruits are too expensive, but I swear, she explodes with joy when we buy vegetables too. She is a child with simple dreams.

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What is my sister’s fault? Why must this be her life? She doesn’t remember our house. She doesn’t remember her cat who was killed by the bombs. She doesn’t remember feeling warm during the winter. All the good things in her life came and went before her brain could form memories. From her point of view, life has always been this genocide. Gaza has always been destroyed. Home has always been one room with no windows and infested by rodents.

Please help me provide for her. She’s had a high fever for the past few days and the blockade is back. The bombs are starting to drop again. This is going to be so hard and I can’t do this alone.

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My friend drew this story just a few months ago. I still remember how happy my sister was to have this donut without sugar when we were starving. It was a waste of resources and money but it was worth it.

Since the blockade got lifted, Soso has been able to enjoy more food in a way she can’t remember ever doing, because her first memories formed during the famine, before I created this campaign, when all we could eat was grass and animal feed.

But the blockade is back. The border is closed again and the war will resume soon, we all know it. The prices are already rising again. Soso will have to grow up without food again, and for how long?

Please help me make sure we make it through the next famine. I don’t want to hear her cries of hunger every night like I did for more than a year. She’s only four years old, she deserves to grow up happy and healthy like every child in the world.

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If this story made you laugh, please don’t skip this message. We live in northern Gaza and we need help. Despite the ceasefire, things keep getting worse here. We are still hungry, cold and sick. We are paying hundreds of dollars to see doctors and get treatment because of how rough the war was on our bodies. We might lose our shelter soon because the landlord keeps increasing the rent.

In the midst of this, my sister Soso, who is only four years old, deserves to be a normal child. She wants to learn but she never got to start school. A few days ago, we brought her to kindergarten, but she spent the entire day crying and now the principal doesn’t want her back. What is this injustice? Children cry on their first day! Soso is a child with a bad life, she’s hungry and cold, she went through severe famine and bombings and witnessed massacres, how can she not cry?

Please help me make our lives better, more stable, so that Soso will feel safe enough to leave our side for a few hours. She longs for an education but she is traumatized.

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Thank you for your time. Stay safe ❤️‍🩹

This is the story of my four-year-old sister whose only crime is to be born in northern Gaza. I hope it will touch you, because I don’t know what to say anymore. I don’t know what to share about our situation anymore.

I have lowered my campaign goal because I have lost hope. I wanted to complete it before March when a new semester will begin so I could register for university again and focus on nothing but my studies. I wanted to rebuild our home so we would avoid the years and years of displacement we went through last time it was destroyed. Maybe I dreamed too big. Maybe my life isn’t meant to be rebuilt.

There is now less than $7,000 left to reach the goal.

Can we please achieve that at least? I won’t have a home, it’s okay. I’ll study in a tent, but at least I’ll be able to somewhat focus if our needs are met. Please, I’m not angry if you can’t donate. I understand. But please at least share, it helps a lot too

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I am eternally grateful to anyone who helps in any way 🙏

If you find this story funny, please read this. This is my sister living with me in northern Gaza. I am trying to build a future for her but the ceasefire hasn’t helped a lot with that. Our house has been destroyed and prices are still way too high for food, medicine, clothes, everything. Our rent has been increased.

She’s an ordinary child who deserves to live just like yours. Please donate so I can give her the safety and stability she deserves, and if you can’t donate that’s okay, but please at least share.

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I hope with all my heart that you will help us 🙏🇵🇸

My name is Rawan. I am only 21. Everything around and in me has been reduced to sand and rubble. My house, my life, my future, my dreams, my soul. I don't feel like a person anymore. I look at the future awaiting us and I wish I had been the first person to die in the war.

How will we rebuild? There are no jobs because everything is destroyed and the price of food isn't lowering. Our rent has already increased, it's now $700 a month and that contract will only hold for a year. After that, it will double.

Please help me. I don't want to spend years in a tent again. I want to study all night in my room like I used to. I want to be warm and safe again. I'm losing my mind.

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I fear what's to come. I'm anxiously waiting for the day we have to leave. What will we do then? I don't want to live in a tent forever. It took so many years to rebuild our home least time it was destroyed, and back then only our neighborhood had been hit. Everything is destroyed. Will I be killed by a bomb or die of old age in a tent?

Aid is coming in, but the prices aren't getting any lower. I want to save money to rebuild our house but I can't. I don't know what to do. I still need your help, please.

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I don’t know what to say anymore. I have become invisible again, donations have stopped even though we still need help. What can I say ? I have explained all of our struggles and it’s not enough. Please, my friends, we still need you. There are still no other ways to get money, no other ways to feed my family. Our landlord will evict us soon. We won’t find another place to stay because rent will go up like crazy in all of Gaza since almost everything is destroyed. We will have to buy a tent, we will have to insulate it, if there’s any heavy rain we will lose all of our stuff… Please don’t abandon us. If we could do this on our own, we would.

We still need to buy food, there are still so many types of medicine that we need… I don’t know how we will manage if people think that our lives are back to normal. It won’t be the case for years.

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I hope you have a nice day or night. Please don't forget about us.