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Embaraka Urgent Appeal

		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 Hammersmith Hospital in London, UK. However, Embaraka’s struggle to live is not yet over and MGR is now returning to appeal for your help to collect the remaining £75,000 to cover her continued treatment costs.

Embaraka (right) with friend Iman - 2007

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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’s fund established to help Embaraka 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.

To donate:

1. Online via PayPal Secure (click below)
2. http://www.justgiving.com/Embaraka-2/
3. Send a cheque – made payable to ‘MGR’ and post to us (at the back of the cheque please write ‘Embaraka’)
4. Bank transfer

HSBC Bank, Muslim Global Relief, Sort Code 40-15-17 Account No.: 31802917

Please use reference ‘Embaraka’ when transferring money.
International donors please use Swift Code ‘MIDLGB2114H’

Please make sure you pass on your address details to MGR so that we can forward you a receipt for your donation.