Dear Friends,

my name is Valentina Leonardi, I am reaching out to you from Rome, Italy and I opened this fundraiser on behalf of my friend Anas and his large family who are in dire need of help.

And I want him to tell his story with his own words:

I am Anas Baraka from Gaza. I hesitated a lot to create this link, but the difficult circumstances of life, the vision of my large family, their difficult circumstances, and their necessary needs forced me to create it.

I am Anas, 21 years old. My dream was to finish my university studies and achieve my dream and become a software engineer, but I was not lucky because of this damned war. Which erased all my dreams. I live in a large family consisting of 20 people, including 8 children. We all live in one tent after we lost... Our beautiful four-story house, of which all we have left are crumbled stones and rubble. I am the only person who has the ability to help them and meet their simple and necessary needs. Our children want heavy clothes and blankets to warm them from the extreme cold, and a cover for the worn-out tent to protect us from the cold winter. They want food, bread, and drinking water. I ask you to help me so that I can help my family and our children, meet their simple, necessary needs, and save them from Hunger caused by this war. who are in desperate need of help.

This is the tent where we live

This is what remains of our home