Friends! I will be participating in a 300km bike ride from Philly to Washington DC September 19-21 to raise awareness and funds for a project called REACH Gaza - Reaching Every Affected Child in Gaza aiming to support every child in need of serious medical care in the Gaza Strip. The REACH project was launched in 2013 by the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund (PCRF), a US non-profit, non-political medical relief organisation and raised over 250,000 USD last year which supported the treatment and care of 630 children... 100% of your contributions go directly to the PCRF REACH project in Gaza and will help organize medical missions to help the children of Gaza, as you can imagine the need is huge and growing, see additional details below.
I am targeting to raise $10,000 for this worthy cause. Please help me by contributing!
For my GE friends this is a GE approved charity, and you can match your contributions through GE, link below. To lookup the charity please use Org name "PALESTINE CHILDRENS RELIEF FUND" State "Ohio" and tax id "931057665".
http://www.gefoundation.com/employee-programs/matching-gifts/
Thank you for your generosity!!
Carine
REACH Gaza – The 2014 Project Second Year Running
REACH Gaza aims to improve and strengthen the currently underdeveloped health-care system in Gaza, particularly when it comes to providing surgery for children in need of medical care. In addition to causing a chronic shortage of medical equipment and supplies in Gaza, the 6 year long siege on the Gaza Strip has prevented children and their families from travelling freely into the West Bank and abroad in order to receive the urgent care and treatment they need.
The REACH Gaza project will address each of these issues and work towards creating a more durable, efficient and sustainable healthcare system by carrying out the following tasks:
- Identifying every sick and injured child in the besieged Gaza Strip in need of specialised medical care through a team of ground staff who will form an intricate network of field offices throughout Gaza
- Creating a pioneering centralised database that will include each child’s medical condition and history
- Providing each child with the required treatment through sponsoring treatment locally, visiting international volunteer missions and sending children abroad for care.
$250,000 (£150,000) was raised in 2013 in support of the REACH Gaza project. 53% of these funds directly resulted in:
- The treatment of 630 children in Gaza
- Through the work of 18 volunteer international medical teams
- Caring for children in need of cardiac, orthopaedic and general medical treatment
The funds also allowed for the development of the first medical database in Gaza with 496 child cases registered.
The remaining funds from 2013 will be used to continue providing essential medical treatment to the children in Gaza, in addition to all the funds raised in 2014 from our 6th cycling challenge taking place in the US from Philadelphia to Washington DC on the 19th of September. With these two cycles we aim to support the REACH Gaza project up to the end of 2015; caring for over 1000 children in Gaza.
| Supporters | |||
| Name | Date | Amount | Comments |
| Anonymous Friend | 09/19/2014 | $200.00 | Elodie Baerlocher | 09/15/2014 | $100.00 | Sathish Ramamurthy | 09/15/2014 | $40.00 | Camille Mahchi | 09/14/2014 | $50.00 | Go Carine!!! Proud of your efforts. Have a safe and memorable ride!!! | Chau & Viet Nguyen | 09/12/2014 | $200.00 | So proud of you for this effort! Good luck and have loads of fun!!! | Colin Joyce | 09/11/2014 | $30.00 | Best of luck Carine in helping this great cause. | Maria Khoury | 09/04/2014 | $100.00 | You have our support!! | Werner Barlocher | 09/03/2014 | $500.00 | I know you can do it ! | Rodrigo Larach | 09/03/2014 | $20.00 | Buenísima idea prima. Ojalá llegues a la meta y suerte en tu viaje. Aqui te esperamos! | Julia De Larach | 08/31/2014 | $500.00 | Para mi querida nieta Carine | Mireya Larach | 08/31/2014 | $800.00 | I love you Keki ! | Julia De Larach | 08/30/2014 | $100.00 | Carine te felicito por esa noble decisión ; te deseo un viaje seguro y divertido! Un besote! | Hasan Dandashly | 08/25/2014 | $500.00 | I think you are crazy... but I know you can do it. Come back safe... we need you at work. | Girish Saligram | 08/22/2014 | $100.00 | Carine - great cause! Good luck! | Nikhar Juneja | 08/21/2014 | $50.00 | All the best | Jim Vogel | 08/21/2014 | $100.00 | Scott Snyder | 08/20/2014 | $25.00 | Matt Foder | 08/19/2014 | $100.00 | Cheers to you for helping out these unfortunate kids...good luck & have fun!! | Hesham Tashkandi | 08/18/2014 | $500.00 | Great cause. Thank you for bringing this issue to everyone’s attention and best of luck. | Mike Hosford | 08/15/2014 | $100.00 | best of luck... | Anonymous Friend | 08/14/2014 | $500.00 | Contribuyendo un granito de arena pero poco a poco vamos a ayudar. Te quiero mucho Karina, cuidate mucho, saludos desde Honduras. | Sofia Calix-Larach | 08/14/2014 | $25.00 | Bhupinder Dayal | 08/14/2014 | $500.00 | Joao Pina | 08/14/2014 | $100.00 | Karim Kefi | 08/12/2014 | $100.00 | Thanks for raising funds and awareness for the children of Palestine Carine. It takes a lot of courage. | Adora Igbokwe | 08/12/2014 | $50.00 | Best wishes Carine!!! Hope training is going well! (Good luck especially with staying injury free until then - tougher than it sounds with two active kiddies! :-)) well done!!! |
| Total | $5,390.00 | ||