{"id":32373,"date":"2021-02-25T14:21:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T14:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shefnews.co.uk\/?p=32373"},"modified":"2021-02-25T14:21:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T14:21:09","slug":"friends-of-beloved-man-start-fundraiser-to-help-starving-people-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/02\/25\/friends-of-beloved-man-start-fundraiser-to-help-starving-people-in-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends of beloved man start fundraiser to help \u2018starving people\u2019 in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The family and friends of beloved <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yousif Thabet have started a GoFundMe<a href=\"https:\/\/uk.gofundme.com\/f\/2a7zl9fq00?fbclid=IwAR21Dd4j-plMuoaEr0F8o99d9QI4yncI_-FJRv0KZ3OaOOIpctTESqHiALE\"> fundraiser<\/a> to help people in Yemen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fundraiser is part of the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yousif\u2019s Charity Foundation, a non-profitable charity set by on behalf of Yousif.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reda Shadli, a 25-year-old call center worker from Sheffield <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said: \u201cWe are all a group of friends from Yemen. We started this charity in memory of our friend.\u00a0 Every month we send whatever we can raise to different locations in the state.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s easy for us to look forward to Ramadan, we can prepare knowing we will have a blessed month with the most delightful food to break our fast. Something that gets us through a hard day of fasting to look forward to breaking it with such a blessing&#8230;          thread \ud83d\udc47\ud83c\udffc <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SyZ72hKI1p\">pic.twitter.com\/SyZ72hKI1p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; YCFoundation (@YCFoundation1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YCFoundation1\/status\/1362759129207554050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cWith the pandemic and people off work sometimes it is harder for them to donate. But slowly bit by bit everything is getting better and hopefully we can just keep up and give more and more to the people in Yemen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The money raised so far from the charity has contributed to the construction of wells, schools, and a small mosque in Yousif\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In January, the group managed to send food packages to Aden, a city in Yemen to help feed families there. As well as selling praying mats for charity and raising money by doing jobs such as washing cars, gardening, painting in Sheffield.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Protest for Yemen <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cH4IkRqefA\">pic.twitter.com\/cH4IkRqefA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; YCFoundation (@YCFoundation1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YCFoundation1\/status\/1279474662314053632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/emergencies\/yemen-crisis#:~:text=Yemen%20is%20the%20largest%20humanitarian%20crisis%20in%20the,become%20a%20living%20hell%20for%20the%20country%E2%80%99s%20children.\">According to Unicef<\/a>, Yemen is currently the largest humanitarian crisis in the world with more than 24 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, including more than 12 million children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.gofundme.com\/f\/2a7zl9fq00?fbclid=IwAR21Dd4j-plMuoaEr0F8o99d9QI4yncI_-FJRv0KZ3OaOOIpctTESqHiALE\">GoFundMe fundraiser<\/a>, set up last week, says: \u201cWe are trying to raise money to send to the suffering people of Yemen to help feed them on the holy month of Ramadan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We plan on feeding as many families as possible this Ramadan and aim to reach as many as we did last year. No donation is too little for the families in Yemen!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please donate as much or as little as you can as every penny will go towards helping a starving family.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can donate to the fundraiser <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.gofundme.com\/f\/2a7zl9fq00?fbclid=IwAR21Dd4j-plMuoaEr0F8o99d9QI4yncI_-FJRv0KZ3OaOOIpctTESqHiALE\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family and friends of beloved Yousif Thabet have started a GoFundMe fundraiser to help people in Yemen.\u00a0 The fundraiser is part of the Yousif\u2019s Charity Foundation, a non-profitable charity set by on behalf of Yousif.\u00a0 Reda Shadli, a 25-year-old call center worker from Sheffield said: \u201cWe are all a group of friends from Yemen. 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