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Help Us Keep Delivering Aid, Dignity, and Hope in Gaza

We were supposed to be racing for Palestine, instead, we are helping our communities survive a genocide.

Backstory:

Before October 2023, we were training to represent Palestine on the world stage as the Gaza Sunbirds, a para-cycling team of amputee athletes. Today, our athletes and team members in Gaza are delivering food, water, emergency supplies, and support to families living through siege, displacement, and destruction.

Work So Far:

Since the start of the genocide, we have delivered or committed more than $711,000 in direct support inside Gaza, funding food, water, transport, emergency supplies, local coordination, staff support, and urgent community needs.

Separately, in just the last eight months, we have distributed over $661,000 worth of donated goods, including food, medical supplies, hygiene kits, Ramadan parcels, baby formula, stoves, and other essential items supplied through partners.

Together, this represents more than $1.37 million in cash support and in-kind aid moved through our emergency response.

The situation today:

The world may speak of a ceasefire, but for people in Gaza, safety has not returned. Families are still being killed. Food, medicine, clean water, movement, and reconstruction remain restricted. More than 70% of people in Gaza rely on trucked water, and families continue to depend on emergency food systems, community kitchens, and local aid networks to survive.

For us, this crisis is deeply personal. Gaza is facing a long-term disability and rehabilitation emergency. WHO estimates that around 43,000 people have sustained life-changing injuries since October 2023, including approximately 10,000 children. More than 5,000 people have suffered limb amputations, and over 50,000 conflict-related injuries require long-term rehabilitation.

We are athletes. We are amputees. We know survival is only the beginning. People with disabilities in Gaza need food, water, medical support, mobility, rehabilitation, sport, community, and a future they can still believe in.

“Our team should be training for the future. Instead, they are fighting every day to keep their communities alive.” — Karim Ali, Co-Founder

Your Donations Today:

It helps fund food, water, transport, emergency supplies, coordination, and support for the athletes and staff carrying this work on the ground. It allows us us us to respond quickly when supplies become available, when an access window opens, or when a family, camp, or community needs urgent help.

But this is not only about survival. It is about protecting dignity. It is about making sure disabled people, displaced families, children, athletes, and community members are not forgotten. It is about refusing the idea that Gaza’s future can be erased.

Alongside emergency aid, your donation also helps us rebuild pathways for sport, rehabilitation, and community life for people with disabilities in Gaza. Our mission remains the same: to create opportunities for amputees and disabled Palestinians to move, train, recover, lead, and represent their people with pride.

This work has been made possible through international donations and trusted partners. Amos Trust holds and manages donations on our behalf, helping ensure funds are ring-fenced, handled carefully, and used to support our emergency missions, athletes, staff, and aid delivery infrastructure in Gaza.

“Rest assured, we are out of time for many. But we will never give up.” — Alaa Al-Dali, Co-Founder & Team Captain

This fund supports the Gaza Sunbirds’ emergency response and our wider mission to serve Palestinian amputee athletes, disabled people, and affected communities in Gaza.

Right now, emergency aid is the priority. If conditions change, or if restrictions make it impossible for us to continue delivering aid safely and effectively on the ground, remaining funds will be redirected toward Gaza Sunbirds projects supporting rehabilitation, sport, mobility, community recovery, and opportunities for people with disabilities in Gaza.

Please donate today to help us keep delivering aid, dignity, and hope.