📽️ They Are Waiting for Us 🕊️

❝ Rawan started asking me:
“Why did my foot go to heaven before I did?
Why didn’t it take me with it?”
She was sleeping in this room… When she woke up, her foot was gone. ❞

In Gaza, children are losing not only their homes, but also their bodies and their childhoods. When Rawan realized at the hospital that she had lost her foot, she tried to stand on her remaining leg. She wanted to walk… She cried… Her psychological well-being was deeply affected from that day on.

❝ I want to have a prosthetic leg.
I want to play with my friends.
I want to go to kindergarten.
I want to take my mother’s phone to be charged… ❞

Rawan’s biggest dream was to go to kindergarten. Today, they live in darkness, by candlelight. There is no electricity. There is no bed. Rawan sleeps on the floor. But her dreams are still alive.

❝ When I grow up, I want to be a doctor… To treat people. ❞

As Mavi Marmara’s Gaza Representative Office, we continue to stand by the children and families who share their life stories with us. We continue our efforts to help injured children stand on their feet again and hold on to life.