Help for Mohammad's heart
Help for Mohammad's heart
Mohammad is 45 years old with a wife and five children. In Syria, in his city, Homs, he had a home, a job, a happy life, which he saw destroyed under the bombs. He left everything behind 10 years ago. She was fleeing the war. There has been fighting in his land since 2011 and the situation continues to be dramatic.
Mohammad chose to leave to seek peace and now lives in Lebanon.With volunteers from Operation Dove, Nonviolent Peace Corps of the Pope John XXIII Community, a bond of genuine closeness and sharing has been woven. Visits to Mohammad's family are always occasions to be together in friendship. We share the fatigue of an increasingly hard everyday life but also the hope for a better future.
Today Mohammad needs help. He suffers from a condition called chronic ischemic heart disease that causes him mitral insufficiency.
This delicate and precarious medical condition makes his heart vulnerable to stopping at any time and keeps Mohammad's life hanging by a thread.
Urgent surgery is needed, but the cost of the operation, already high in Lebanese private health care, is likely to become prohibitive due to the continuous fluctuation of the local currency (lira). Added to these expenses are the cost of traveling to the health facility and the cost of accompanying him after the surgery.
This is why Mohammad needs you. The generosity of those who knew his story allowed us to receive the first donations but the goal is still far away and there is no time to waste.
Help Mohammad, do it now! Every contribution is valuable to save him and to do it in time. Donate now and allow his heart to keep beating.
His life also depends on you.
Thank you.
5,770 €
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5,700 €
67 Donations
The fundraiser supports the project: Operation Dove in Lebanon - 2022
Total project goal:
20.000 €
Operation Dove volunteers share life and work alongside Syrian refugees still living in camps across the country. Supporting, helping and protecting them means still believing in the strength of relationships and the peace that comes from staying close and dreaming together.
Mohammad has finally been operated on
2 years, 2 months ago
On Thursday, September 8, Mohammad finally had surgery. He spent a couple of days in the ICU, and on the 9th he was transferred to his room, where he finally met his wife and children. We waited the last half hour of surgery waiting with Mohammad's wife, his brother and sister. They were very tense, kept staring at the operating room door waiting for the doctor to come out. Five hours of waiting is a long time, but when that door opened and the surgeon said "kullo tamam, alamdulillah" (all is well, thank God) their faces immediately calmed down.
Together with them we shared this joy and ate treats to celebrate the successful operation!
Mohammad's family thanks you very much and us with them for making this surgery possible. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
THANK YOU ALL!
2 years, 3 months ago
Over the past few days, the "Help for Mohammad's Heart" campaign has concluded with great success. Thanks to your valuable contributions next week Mohammad will undergo an echocardiogram following which the doctor will decide when to operate on him. Probably the following week.
We spoke with him, he is afraid of course, but he is extremely grateful for the opportunity to undergo the surgery and thus, inshallah (God willing), be able to actively participate in the lives of his wife and children.
We will keep you updated in the coming weeks, in the meantime a big thank you from us volunteers at Operation Dove and thank you especially from Mohammad and his family!
