I am fundraising for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund through Cycling4Gaza.
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 |
| Allison Brown | 09/29/2014 | $20.00 | Juan Carlos Aguirre | 09/18/2014 | $10.00 | ZIad Dallal | 09/17/2014 | $15.00 | Mary Von Aue | 09/15/2014 | $30.00 | Good luck and Godspeed! | Samar Farah | 09/11/2014 | $30.00 | Great initiative. Good luck! Hopefully one day we can cycle to Gaza... | F B | 09/09/2014 | $300.00 | Good Luck Ahmad! Bike it up man! We all thank you for doing this! Make sure you drink enough water. :) | Maha Sultan | 09/02/2014 | $500.00 | Alaa Juma | 09/02/2014 | $20.00 | Good luck Ahmad! Praying for all those suffering in Gaza. May tomorrow bring a brighter day. | Anonymous Friend | 08/30/2014 | $500.00 | Anonymous Friend | 08/28/2014 | $5.00 | Rita Mansour | 08/22/2014 | $100.00 | Good luck and great initiative ! | Atheer Yacoub | 08/22/2014 | $25.00 | Dima A | 08/22/2014 | $100.00 | Go Ahmad! :) | Sigrid Gruener | 08/22/2014 | $50.00 | Well done Ahmad! | Anja Erbel | 08/21/2014 | $100.00 | Go Zaatar!! | Anonymous Friend | 08/21/2014 | $100.00 | Christine Seisun | 08/21/2014 | $50.00 | Beau Bothwell | 08/19/2014 | $50.00 | Cheers from Beau and Anna | Zainab Mahmood | 08/19/2014 | $50.00 | Thank you, Ahmad. | David Burr | 08/19/2014 | $100.00 | Lara Harb | 08/19/2014 | $100.00 | بالتوفيق! | M ! | 08/17/2014 | $75.00 | Nadia Khalaf | 08/17/2014 | $60.00 | Dena Al-Adeeb | 08/16/2014 | $50.00 | Tanya Keilani | 08/16/2014 | $20.00 | Samuel Dolbee | 08/16/2014 | $25.00 | Ramzi Bosha | 08/15/2014 | $75.00 | Melanie Richter-Montpetit | 08/14/2014 | $50.00 | Cari Keller | 08/13/2014 | $25.00 | Shaina Low | 08/13/2014 | $20.00 | China Sajadian | 08/12/2014 | $15.00 | Ruwayna Ghanem | 08/12/2014 | $100.00 | Omar Alghazzi | 08/12/2014 | $20.00 | Ryvka Barnard | 08/12/2014 | $25.00 | Anonymous Friend | 08/11/2014 | $250.00 | bravo! good luck! | Helga Tawil | 08/11/2014 | $100.00 | Said Abu-Kaud | 08/11/2014 | $100.00 | Arta Khakpour | 08/11/2014 | $25.00 |
| Total | $3,290.00 | ||