In mid September, I will be taking part in the 6th annual Cycling4Gaza event (cycling4gaza.com). This year we will be cycling over 300km from Philadelphia to Washington DC over the course of 3 days. While training for the ride, I am also raising funds to support the REACH Gaza (Reaching Every Affected Child in Gaza) project through the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund (PCRF). PCRF is a non-political, non-profit organization dedicated to healing the wounds of war, occupation and poverty for children in the Middle East, regardless of their nationality, religion, race or gender. More information about REACH Gaza is below.
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 |
| Deena Jamal | 09/23/2014 | $100.00 | Congrats on finishing the ride Ramzi!! I hope you get to your goal of $10k. Peace and love- | D Shi | 09/22/2014 | $100.00 | you rock palestinian socks | Rhona Zeidan | 09/21/2014 | $50.00 | Job Well done Ramz!!! | John Bernson | 09/21/2014 | $100.00 | Go for it Ramzi. Cheers | Lea Aoun | 09/20/2014 | $150.00 | Love you Uncle Ramzi! | Oussama Glilah | 09/19/2014 | $100.00 | Do the cats of Gaza get aid too? They are victims too! Thanks Ramzi (and the guys joining you) for doing something the rest us are not. Good luck! | Nael Osseiran | 09/19/2014 | $150.00 | Nadine Habayeb Bader Ataya | 09/19/2014 | $200.00 | We are proud of you. Go Ramz!! | Romy Lahoud | 09/18/2014 | $50.00 | Definetely use my gopro chest mount if you still have it ;) All the best, you're truly missed here! | Anonymous Friend | 09/18/2014 | $200.00 | Yasmeen Abughaida | 09/18/2014 | $50.00 | AYWAA | Anonymous Friend | 09/18/2014 | $50.00 | Ramzi Farah | 09/18/2014 | $500.00 | On behalf of Fawzi, Lili, Zalfa and Yasmeen. Love you! | Samer Abdelkader | 09/18/2014 | $250.00 | Nijad Zakharia | 09/18/2014 | $50.00 | Good luck Ramzi! | Rich Rangi | 09/18/2014 | $150.00 | Awesome effort Ramzi! Top effort and great cause. | Kareem Kaddoura | 09/18/2014 | $100.00 | This is great Ramzy!! All the best, KK | Ramsey Hassen | 09/16/2014 | $50.00 | Paul Aoun | 09/16/2014 | $150.00 | Cycle forest Cycle | Ines Pintenat | 09/13/2014 | $100.00 | Thanks Ramzi and gooooood luck | Rayan Rasamny | 09/05/2014 | $150.00 | Go on Ramzi!!!! YOU CAN DOOOO WITTTT! | Najla Zahr | 09/04/2014 | $100.00 | good luck! | Reem Mobassaleh | 08/25/2014 | $200.00 | Linda Sawaya | 08/24/2014 | $100.00 | Best of luck Ramz! | Lubna Jones | 08/24/2014 | $50.00 | Talal Nassar | 08/24/2014 | $50.00 | Kamal Abdelbaki | 08/20/2014 | $200.00 | Good luck Ramzi! | Fred Perry | 08/20/2014 | $50.00 | Raya & Fady Wakil | 08/20/2014 | $100.00 | Go Ramzi Go! Make us proud ;)) | Sura Zaatari | 08/18/2014 | $100.00 | You really rallied everyone for this, job well done. Go Fawzi! With you (and your knee) all the way! xo | Omar Sawaya | 08/17/2014 | $500.00 | Good luck. | Zahra Ahmad | 08/16/2014 | $200.00 | Amazing Ramz! Good luck! | Nada Tabbara | 08/15/2014 | $100.00 | Amazing! Good luck Ramz!! :) | Sami Bashour | 08/15/2014 | $50.00 | Good luck! | Marie-Charlotte Deucher | 08/13/2014 | $30.00 | Allez Ramzi, great cause | Tamara Rasamny | 08/12/2014 | $50.00 | Great job Ramzi! | Saleh Sawan | 08/12/2014 | $100.00 | Best of luck bro | Rachel Pether | 08/12/2014 | $100.00 | Good luck Big Ramz xxx | Richard Zakharia | 08/11/2014 | $50.00 | Good job mate. Great cause. | Dina Ahmad | 08/11/2014 | $50.00 | Satori Bailey & Nour Kteily | 08/11/2014 | $50.00 | Lynn Ezzeddine | 08/07/2014 | $100.00 | good luck!!! make lazy yass do something with her life | Natasha Daoud | 08/06/2014 | $100.00 | way to go Ramz!! good luck!! | Amer & Dana Ghandour | 08/03/2014 | $200.00 | For the innocent children, women and men of Gaza! Make us proud Ramz! | Tarek Saidi | 08/02/2014 | $100.00 | To all those brave souls contributing to the cause and Ramzi that will ride tall and proud. Here for you bro in preps for the mission | Matt Strathearn | 08/01/2014 | $150.00 | Wonderful cause, Canada supports you! Good luck! | Nadim Salameh | 08/01/2014 | $150.00 | Best of luck bro | Anonymous Friend | 08/01/2014 | $100.00 | Paul Ingram | 08/01/2014 | $100.00 | Way to go. Good luck! | Lucy Marolda | 07/31/2014 | $50.00 | Gokce Altintig | 07/31/2014 | $50.00 | great cause! go Ramzi! | Tarek Jabi | 07/31/2014 | $100.00 | Good luck Ramz | Anonymous Friend | 07/31/2014 | $100.00 | Thanks for doing this | Amar Zahr | 07/31/2014 | $101.00 | shatap. | Carl Wazen | 07/31/2014 | $100.00 | Anonymous Friend | 07/31/2014 | $50.00 | Shyam Thakrar | 07/31/2014 | $50.00 | For a good cause bro. Great u r doing this. | Zuhair Shamma | 07/30/2014 | $100.00 | Good luck! | Amer Murad | 07/29/2014 | $120.00 | you go babes | Manal Nimeh | 07/28/2014 | $100.00 | Anonymous Friend | 07/28/2014 | $50.00 | Good luck! | Bissar Sleiman | 07/27/2014 | $100.00 | Omar Shihabi | 07/27/2014 | $500.00 | Anonymous Friend | 07/26/2014 | $100.00 | Anonymous Friend | 07/24/2014 | $200.00 | So proud of you Ramzi. This is amazing. | Anonymous Friend | 07/24/2014 | $150.00 | Ghada Khoury | 07/24/2014 | $100.00 | Bravo! Good luck, wish I was joining in this year! Amazing cause | Anonymous Friend | 07/23/2014 | $500.00 | Go big Ramz! |
| Total | $8,651.00 | ||