Jihad aka BaBa Ji Samhat
Team Lebanon / Radio Beirut / FeathersTale / LNADJ Foundation
Fundraising for The Last Night A DJ Saved My Life Foundation
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Hello Friends :)
Thank you for visiting our fundraising page!
We are TEAM LEBANON and we need YOUR support in helping children with special needs and disabilities. Funds raised through your generous contributions will benefit two noble charities by directly contributing to the humanitarian services they provide children with special needs and disabilities both here in Lebanon/Middle East and in Tanzania, Africa.
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Who will you be supporting by making a contribution?
Child Amputees
Many children here in Lebanon and our neighboring region have suffered traumatic injuries by loosing limb/s during the recent episodes of violence in neighboring Syria and the occupied Gaza strip, as well as those injured by the many landmines left behind past conflicts and years of occupation here in Lebanon.
Orphans with Disabilities & Special Needs
The situation in many parts of the world, including Africa is bleak for children born with physical and/or mental disabilities. Many of these children with special needs suffer a lack in the adequate caregiving required to make their lives more bearable. This may also lead to abandonment in some cases.
_________________________________________________________________________What is TEAM LEBANON doing to help?
Ain't No Mountain High Enough charity climb Sept. 14th - 23rd, 2018 [Fundraising campaign and climb to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro]
Spearheaded by the Last Night A DJ Saved My Life (LNADJ) Foundation, which does charitable work by involving influencers such as artists, musicians and producers from around the world to engage their networks of family, friends and fans through various fundraising initiatives to help make a positive difference in the lives of those in need.
This September representing their home country of Lebanon, two Beirut based artists and longtime friends Semaan Khawam & Jihad Samhat aka TEAM LEBANON will partake alongside several other artists & humanitarians from around the globe on what will be a noble as well as physically/mentally challenging fundraising campaign.
The purpose is to climb to the summit of MountKilimanjaro, the highest point in the African continent and highest "freestanding" mountain in the world. While raising awareness and funds through this campaign for the FeathersTale Children’s Village, an eco/care-provider community, which shelters orphaned special needs children with disabilities in Tanzania. Several artists & humanitarians from around the globe are coming together in this campaign to raise funds for this charity......
....More info on the charitable work of the FeathersTale Children's Village and the LNADJ FOUNDATION below.
________________________________________________________________________But, wait there's more!!
Jihad aka TEAM LEBANON is upping the ante by adding another charity to their fundraising goal!!
The World Rehabilitation Fund (WRF), which provides medical assistance and prosthesis limbs to child amputees who have suffered crippling injuries due to traumatic loss of limbs from the remaining landmine threat left behind past conflicts and occupation here in Lebanon, as well as Syrian & Palestinian children that have tragically suffered similar incapacitating injuries from the continuing violence in neighboring Syria and the occupied Gaza strip.
_________________________________________________________________________More info on how the funds will be used;
Fundraising for WRF, Lebanon & ME
As mentioned above, TEAM LEBANON members Semaan & Jihad
have decided to double their fundraising goals by adding a second charity to their campaign. The World Rehabilitation Fund (WRF) which
provides medical care and rehabilitation to children that have suffered
through acts of violence, incapacitating injuries resulting in the traumatic amputation of limbs. The specialized care provided through WRF’s projects and affiliates include surgery, the fitting of prothesis limbs, rehabilitation and continued physio therapy in order to provide the child amputee a better degree of mobility, which in turn lessens the impact of disability.
With your generous contributions, half of the funds raised through TEAM LEBANON will be allocated to WRF's victim assistance programs which provides medical care, rehabilitation and prothesis limbs to child amputee victims in the ME region.
Syrian and Palestinian child amputee victims benefit from services provided by the WRF. Victims whether internally displaced, from Aleppo, or living in occupied Gaza strip, even those who have managed to escape with their immobilizing injuries having fled to the relative safety of the many refugee camps scattered across the region in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey may benefit from the services provided by the WRF and their affiliates.
Lebanese child amputee victims that ironically never physically witnessed war having grown up during the past few decades of relative calm and stability, however tragically falling victim to a landmine leftover as a lethal legacy from the past violence that Lebanon had endured are also eligible for the services provided by the WRF.
The threat of Anti-Personnel Landmines and UXO (un-exploded ordnance) is REAL and affects civilian populations in over seventy countries worldwide. According to recent studies, each and every day over 80 people are killed or maimed by anti-personnel landmines worldwide, with over 50% of this number being children. That’s over 25,000 injured or killed persons a year devastating the same number of families.
The War in Syria: Camp provides artificial limbs for wounded https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1lBgfwvIEM
Syrian teen fights to walk after a double amputation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftzWa80zLT0
If your country is not one of the 164 signatories of the Ottawa Treaty, the International Convention the Prohibition of Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines signed at the UN in 1997, then please write your local legislator demanding this cruel inhumane weapon be banned from use.
Fundraising for FeathersTale Children's Village, TANZANIA
FeathersTale Children's Village currently houses dozens of disabled
special needs children and their single-parent mothers who would otherwise be homeless. However, space is running out for those currently sheltered and any future arrivals. As part of this campaign funds raised will go towards expanding the village by building an additional purpose-built facility to house over 25 more children.
With your generous support, funds raised will enable FeathersTale
Children's Village to continue tremendously improving upon the lives and wellbeing of these special-needs disabled children along with their otherwise destitute and homeless single mothers. By providing them with safe and secure living conditions as well as the professional care needed to ease their pain & suffering, giving them hope rather than hopelessness.
Asides from providing adequate shelter from the elements, food, clean
drinking water and clothing, the additional benefits the children receive at FeathersTale include:
• Basic Medical care, medicine, physio therapy, wheelchairs and
sensory stimulation.
• Children not being separated from their single mothers who will instead cohabit the facility with their disabled child, rather than being
homeless, destitute and fending for themselves on the streets.
• Bringing together a community of mothers with special needs disabled
children fosters a support mechanism amongst the mothers towards one another as they share in the same life experiences and
challenges.
• When mothers need to do simple tasks, like perhaps wash clothing,
shopping, cooking or even working away from the village, the children
are constantly surrounded by qualified care personnel for their special
needs and disabilities.
• Likewise, these children who would otherwise perhaps be left on the
floor somewhere, in pain, suffering, hungry, perhaps lonely, with
limited or no care and maybe even abandoned by their parents, will
instead be able to socialize with other special needs children and their
mothers housed within the same community village.
• Single mothers with such children will now have an option and perhaps
less disabled children would be abandoned by their desperate
parents.
• Community Medical and Social Worker's provide continuous support
around the clock for these special needs children and their guardians
to ensure their wellbeing both physically and emotionally.
• Emergency transportation is always available for any child that is
developing into serious medical condition... Whereby without, most
children in the rural countryside are generally at least an hour’s drive
from any higher medical care facility or hospital. The same trip could
take upwards of 8+ hours at night, and usually only afforded via the
underdeveloped public transport system.
There are many other benefits, but these are the essential points that you would help enable through your charitable contribution.
FeathersTale Children’s Village, located on the foothills of the mighty Mount Kilimanjaro is truly a remarkable and worthy cause managed by an amazing team that we will stop and visit before our ascent. We will be providing you with constant project updates along the way, so the sooner we can raise the funds needed the sooner we can complete the project!
For more information regarding the charitable work of the LNADJ Foundation and FeathersTale Children's Village please check out these short videos:
LNADJ Showreel 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WQcYwqXLnI
LNADJ Saved My Life Foundation - Get Involved https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTbZGFSfV6Y
Fundraising Target Goal
TEAM LEBANON’s fundraising goal is 5,000GBP to be divided equally between both charitable causes.
Join TEAM LEBANON and make a difference by donating whatever you can. Everything counts, so don’t be shy and give whatever you can!
About - TEAM LEBANON
Jihad Samhat, aka BaBa-Ji is the founder and producer of Beirut city’s iconic Radio Beirut.
Also, to the discovery of any who many not know this fact, Jihad was formerly employed by the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), the UN agency specialized in clearance operations of Landmines and UXO in affected countries throughout the world. Jihad resigned in the summer of 2016 after roughly fifteen continuous years of civil service as an Operations Officer responsible for Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Operations and Training of demining personnel.
Check out these links for more info on Jihad’s former career in Humanitarian Landmine/UXO Clearance Operations and his transition to music with his current role as Founder, Curator and Producer at Radio Beirut.
Radio Beirut ('Resilient Cities': Beirut Episode 1 Clip) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F1nWwnwOiU
CNN Travel // Inside the Middle East // Dropping beats not bombs: How one man swapped minesweeping for music https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/radio-beirut-local-music-lebanon/index.html
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