My name is Munira El Najar, an educator from Gaza and a mother of four beloved children. After enduring the challenges of war, my family continues to restore our lives. I’ve always taken great pride in my profession as a teacher, seeing it as both an honor and a responsibility, and now, I remain focused on moving forward with strength and resilience.

On December 25th, 2023, we faced the unthinkable, forced to flee our home in the north of Nuseirat amidst relentless shelling for the first time in our life. Since then, we have been displaced and escaped from death more than seven times from our home, seeking safety in places like Mawassi Rafah, Deir al-Balah, and in some of our relatives’ homes in the Nuseirat refugee camps.

The goal of this campaign is to provide us with the support we need to navigate through these challenges and forge a path towards restoring our lives.

How the Funds Will Be Used

The donations will be used for urgent needs, including:

• Basic Survival Needs: Food, water, and medicine are in short supply and becoming more expensive in Gaza. We are facing actual famine, and your contributions help my family access these essentials.
• Cleaning Supplies: Maintaining hygiene is crucial in these conditions. The funds will help purchase essential cleaning products to ensure safety and health.
• Wood for Cooking: With the gas supply cut off, wood is necessary for cooking. Donations will help purchase firewood to prepare meals.
• Education: I am working hard to keep my children engaged in their learning. Donations will help cover lessons fees and provide the necessary stationery and educational materials for their studies.
• Safe Passage: Transportation costs and securing safe routes out of Gaza are overwhelming. The donations will support a potential escape to safety.
• Temporary Housing and Resettlement: If my family is able to flee, the funds will assist in finding a temporary place to stay and rebuilding their lives.

Leaving Gaza is not just physically difficult, but also financially and emotionally overwhelming. My family’s safety relies on the kindness and generosity of people like you. Every donation brings them closer to safety and hope.

Why Your Support Matters

Your support is vital in helping us move forward with hope for a better future. It gives my children the chance to keep dreaming, learning, and growing despite the challenges they face.

As an educator and the wife of a respected academic and author, I’ve always believed in the power of education and the importance of the stories we share. With your support, we can restore and move forward with renewed strength and determination.

To follow our journey and connect with me personally, you can find me on Instagram at “munira_elnajar”.

You can donate to Munira’s family here

The healthcare situation in Gaza is a catastrophe. Medical aid has not entered through the border crossings since March 2 due to Israel’s blockade of the strip. Not only are lifesaving medication and supplies prohibited from entering, but, for the most part, so are medical missions with foreign doctors and nurse delegates. Medical evacuations have been few and far between, preventing those who need care from leaving. Yet the bombing, the shootings, the famine, the chronic illnesses… none of this has stopped. 

The Sameer Project x Translating Falasteen has been supplying medication, treatments, visits to doctors, wound care, specialist appointments, physiotherapy, psychotherapy, and has been collecting documents to facilitate evacuations in the North, Center, and South of Gaza for one year. Depending on the patient, location and the type of help needed, we have been supporting medical care from our North and South campaigns. Now, as the situation is deteriorating and we are stepping up to do more, we have decided to make a focused “Medical Care” campaign. 

In addition to our South medical point, we are opening up a new medical point in the North, in the overcrowded and underserved Port Camp. The “Translating Falasteen x The Sameer Project Port Camp Medical Point” will have full service care including a doctor, nurses, a dentist, and a physiotherapist. After the initial installation costs, it will be approximately $20,000 to keep it up and running and to keep medication in stock. 

Funds raised will be used for the following:

• Purchase sourced medication from private pharmacies for patients referred to us
• Support the soon-to-be-opened Translating Falasteen x The Sameer Project Port Camp Medical Point, in the North 
• Supply medication not available in hospital pharmacies to patients 
• Purchase supplies like gauze, iodine, antiseptics, antibiotics, wheelchairs, crutches, walkers, etc. for those with “war injuries”
• Fund our “Wound Care” project—traveling doctors and nurses who treat those who otherwise would be in the hospital in their tents, providing dressing changes, medication, and physiotherapy 
• In-clinic physiotherapy sessions for children suffering from brain atrophy and mental and physical delays 
• Specialized formula for malnourished babies and toddlers
• Fortified nutritional supplements for malnourished children 
• Medical Days for skin diseases, new mothers, and injuries 
• Dental Days both mobile in camps and in clinics 
• Provide food or cash aid/e-wallets to “special circumstance” patients 
• Secure aid for hospitals that are not provided by the Ministry of Health 

Everything we source, purchase, and provide is already in Gaza. But stocks are running out. This is why otherwise free medication and supplies are sold at exorbitant prices and must be searched for across numerous pharmacies and medical suppliers. We have a network of nurses and doctors to help us provide what others can’t. This work should be done by large relief organizations and iNGOs but because of the difficulty operating in Gaza and since the borders are closed, many are rendered useless and it has fallen on The Sameer Project to fill the gaps left by them. 

We carry out large-scale campaigns to mitigate outbreaks of contagious diseases, we provide hospitals (such as Nasser) with formula, we bring fresh vegetables to cancer patients (like at Al Helou), and we give aid and assistance to those who are awaiting evacuation (also bringing them to our Refaat Alareer Camp) to keep them stable enough to travel. 

We have named the campaign after our recently martyred South coordinator and camp manager, Mosab Ali, who also worked on his own mental health and physical rehabilitation project, focusing on healing those who are suffering. He would often come across those injured and too poor to afford treatment and call our doctors to help. He ran The Refaat Alareer Camp and managed 30+ families with critically ill and injured members. And Mosab himself had a son who was medically evacuated to Qatar with his wife and other two children. It is in his honor that we continue to offer medical support to those in need. 

We spend on average $5,000 every 10 days on medication for patients, $3,500 for every restock of the medical point in the South, $10,000 every 1.5-2 months on our wound care project, and more expenses based on the availability and cost of vegetable parcels, formula, supplements, and supplies for our medical days. Each Medical Day, whether in the North or South, averages around $1,000, and we host several per week. Every day produces more wounded, the sick get sicker, and those with chronic diseases suffer. Children are dying as they await evacuation. Cancer patients have no palliative care. Painkillers are scarce. We cannot solve many of these problems, only aid and delegations will (not to mention a ceasefire and opening the borders), but, with your help, we can provide some medical care, what is available, to SAVE LIVES in Gaza.

You can donate to the Sameer Project here.