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 in .  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 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