Assalamu alaikum (peace be upon you) and thank-you for visiting my JustGiving
page.
This is an urgent appeal for donations to raise the remainder of a
fundraising target set in Ramadan/September 2007 to fund treatment costs for a
young Libyan school teacher called Embaraka.
In 2007, Embaraka needed an urgent stem cell transplant and crucial
cancer drugs to survive a crisis (blast) stage of chronic myeloid leukaemia, a
type of blood cancer.
As a result of generous donations made in Ramadan 2007 appeal, we raised almost
60% of the total £150, 000 pounds needed for her treatment at the Hammersmith Hospital
in London, UK.
However, Embaraka’s struggle to live is not yet over and I am now returning
to appeal for your help to collect the remaining £75, 000 to cover her
continued treatment costs.
Embaraka has been taking powerful immunosuppressive drugs over the past
year to control a condition called graft versus host disease, which is where
some of the donor’s active immune cells recognise the recipient (Embaraka’s) cells
as foreign and attack them.
Unfortunately the immune suppressing treatment means she is more
vulnerable to infections and not surprisingly, a fungal infection of the lungs has
finally caught up with her. This requires
urgent, expensive and long term anti-fungal treatment. Unfortunately, Muslim Global Relief the charity who
established an exclusive fund raising account for her, now report that her account has
run out of money and can only afford to pay for at most one last batch of
anti-fungal drugs.
With God’s continued mercy, your prayers and generosity and Embaraka’s
strong struggle to live, she has time and again managed to overcome the worst
case scenarios and beaten her cancer not just once but twice. Embaraka is not a victim, she is a survivor.
In the past year, whilst battling with her ill health she has tried her best to
put something back into the local community by volunteering to teach young
children Qur’an and Arabic studies.
Please join Embaraka in her struggle to lead a normal, healthy
life and donate generously towards her treatment.
Most important of all- please don’t forget to remember her and us in
your prayers, especially during the remainder of this blessed month!
Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details
are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails.
Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure
Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So
it’s the most efficient way to donate, whilst saving time and cutting costs for
the charity.
Alternatively you can use the following payment methods:
2) Go to the MGR website (http://www.muslimglobalrelief.com/)
and
donate to the Charity online, specifying the donation is for
Embaraka. If you'e making a large donation, this may be a more cost
effective way
of donating because this JustGiving site charges MGR a small transaction
fee (see details at bottom of page).
3) Make a cheque or postal order payable to 'MGR' and posting to MGR, PO Box
2018, Nelson, United Kingdom, BB9 7WB (please write 'Embaraka fund' on the back
of the cheque);
4) Make a bank transfer to: MGR, HSBC Bank plc: Sort code: 40-15-17
Account Number: 81582526 (for international donors only, the SWIFT code is
MIDLGB22). Again please use the reference 'Embaraka' for your bank transfer.
In all cases MGR will send you a receipt for your donation. If you have any
problems with any of the above ways of payment, please contact MGR directly
through their website.
So please donate generously and may the blessings of Ramadan shower upon you
Saliha Afzal and Iman Mahmoud; September 2009
