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This Ramadan, your generosity could help bring lifesaving healthcare to families displaced by conflict. Through our first-ever Ramadan Appeal, Doctors of the World UK are raising £30,000 in 30 days to help us continue providing vital medical care to families in crisis zones worldwide.
Your donation could help children and families living through healthcare emergencies in places such as Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
Ramadan is the month of compassion, solidarity, and giving. While many of us can break our fast safely, the families we work with are facing unimaginable hardship. For them, access to clean water, food and even the most basic healthcare can be impossible.
In Syria, renewed violence in November forced more than 100,000 people to flee Aleppo, with families sheltering in schools, mosques, and public buildings. Since January, our teams have deployed medical units and are distributing hygiene, dignity and winter shelter kits to support families and children who have been forced to flee their homes in north-east Syria.
In Gaza, the need has never been greater. Over the past two years, more than 1,700 healthcare workers have been killed – including one of our colleagues - medical facilities destroyed and supplies blocked. Despite these extremely dangerous conditions and the current regulatory situation imposed by Israel, we are doing everything we can to stay in Gaza.
Our team of doctors, nurses, midwives, and psychologists are delivering medical consultations every week. Keeping clinics open and providing essential medicines and vital mental health support to thousands of people living with trauma in Gaza and the West Bank.
In family therapy in refugee camps, we see many young children who cling to their mothers, who don’t want to go to school, to the nursery, or don’t want to leave the house. The child is anxious because he knows that the moment he leaves the house, he is not secure anymore, and he might witness the soldiers...
We see a lot of regression in children’s development, for kids who have achieved some stages of development like separation from parents, sleeping by themselves in their rooms. Or children who were able to go to the bathroom by themselves, now they wet their bed. Right now, they are regressing at many stages because of the kind of reality they are living in...
Or some children are acting mature. For many children in the camps, they have lost their parents, their parents are in jail, they have witnessed their parents being humiliated, so they are forced to grow up fast to fill the space left by the parent who is not there to protect them. By acting like adults while they are children, they miss experiencing childhood, so they will grow up with some emotional and behavioural instability because they didn’t play, didn’t make mistakes, because they had to grow up fast. MdM psychologist operating in Al Fawwar camp (March 2025)
How your donations could help
£15 could help supply a hygiene kit
(Soap, menstrual products, disinfectants, toothpaste/ toothbrush, etc.)
£30 could help fund mental health support session
(For 10 people especially children experiencing trauma, grief, and displacement)
£50 could help provide emergency medical supplies
(Including wound care, antibiotics, and essential medications)
£75 could help support childhood immunisation
(Protecting 15 children from preventable diseases)
£100 could help provide reproductive health and antenatal care
(Including safe pregnancy monitoring, equipment and midwife delivery support)
£150 could help respond to disease outbreaks
(Including flu prevention and treatment and other respiratory illnesses)
Medical care and humanitarian assistance are not optional. They are basic human and legal rights under international law. This Ramadan, your support could bring hope, dignity, and life-saving medical support to people in need.
Please donate to help us reach our £30,000 target. If you’re unable to donate, sharing this page could still help save lives.