tracy🇵🇸

🥶It's raining here and the weather is very cold. My children need warm clothes 🙏😢 The jacket costs $50 chuffed.org/project/147847 @ainiladra @GoodVibePolitik @4everBrandy

I want to speak from the deepest part of my heart. Just a few hours ago, I witnessed people suffocating inside their tents after a sandy embankment collapsed on them. Women and children died buried beneath the sand, struggling to breathe. Everything has become unbearably heavy. Far too heavy. The destruction, flooding, and loss of lives we have witnessed over the past two days will happen again. And again. Some people treat our suffering as just another breaking news story, a temporary social media trend. To hell with every platform that waits for us to die just to turn our pain into views and engagement. People are suffocating. Children are drowning. Mothers are dying because of winter, a season most of the world loves. We have come to hate the rain. We have come to fear winter. Stop competing over who publishes our suffering first. We are not products. We are not content. We are human beings who are freezing, drowning, and dying. We need humanity, not performances of compassion. We will never forgive those who exploit our suffering for attention, sitting comfortably somewhere, waiting for another tragedy to turn into content. We need real solutions. Even the most basic necessities are missing, and their absence is costing entire families their lives. Some people have had no blankets or dry place to sleep since yesterday. Believe me, they are the same families whose flooded tents broke the world's heart yesterday. Someone filmed them, posted their suffering, and left. But they are still there, struggling with torn plastic shelters, soaked mattresses, freezing temperatures, and stagnant water inside their tents. The cameras are gone, but their suffering remains. We are not a trend that lasts a few hours before disappearing. Our suffering does not end when your videos stop getting views. We are human beings. And my people deserve better.

I don't know whether what is happening to families here means anything to you, or whether the suffering of thousands of families and their children can still stir even a single ounce of humanity within you. But what is happening here goes beyond every limit of human endurance and surpasses the most horrific things the human mind could ever imagine. Entire families are still homeless to this very moment, after floods and torrential rain swept away and completely destroyed their tents. Families are sleeping out in the open and along roadsides, with no roof to shelter them, no walls to protect them, and no blankets to shield them from the cold. Their children's bodies are trembling constantly, as the freezing cold and floodwaters mercilessly ravage their bodies. Families' clothes, mattresses, and blankets are still soaked in water, drenched, torn, and worn out. Everything they once had to protect themselves from the cold is now submerged in mud and floodwater. The rain has swallowed everything, stripping these families of even the most basic necessities they had left to survive. Even more cruel and unforgivable is the fact that the food families struggled so desperately to obtain, paying exorbitant prices just to feed their children and satisfy their hunger, has been completely soaked, ruined, and destroyed. Many families and children no longer have even a single bite of food to eat. These are not merely difficult living conditions, nor are they just the consequences of a passing storm. This is a humanitarian catastrophe in every sense of the word. Families have been abandoned to face floods, freezing cold, hunger, and homelessness, as though their lives mean nothing to anyone, and as though the suffering of their children is something the world can simply accept and ignore forever. We no longer feel that this world sees us as human beings. We have been treated as though we were animals, as though the entirety of Gaza were a testing ground for their military capabilities and lethal weapons. Weapons that destroyed our homes, tore our families apart, and robbed us of our safety. And then came the rain and floods to strip us of whatever little shelter, food, and dignity we had left. They have destroyed every meaning of life here, and the world is still watching.

We have reached the halfway point of my £15,000 fundraising goal! ❤️ We've come so far, and I'm so grateful to everyone who has donated, shared and supported me. Could you help push us a little more over that halfway mark? Even a small donation or a share could make the difference. chuffed.org/project/200305