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<br>Friends,</font><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I am writing for your support. The sketch above is of Maria. <span style="font-size:13px;line-height:18px">Maria
is a 12 year old girl from Daraa, Syria. One day, Maria is getting
ready to bathe her doll, as she does every day, when her home is
shelled. The ceil</span><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:18px">ing collapses, crushing Maria's body under the rubble. <br>
<br>Her father finds his daughter buried under the rubble and rushes to
the nearest emergency clinic with her in his arms. That emergency clinic
has also been destroyed. <br><br>At another clinic nearby, Maria is
diagnosed with a brain hemorrhage and several fractures in her head and
neck. This clinic falls under siege and Maria has to be evacuated.
Refugeed and desperate to find treatment for their wounded daughter,
Maria's parents flee to Jordan. She checks into a hospital where she is
diagnosed with edema, severe facial swelling, severe pain in the head
and neck due to broken vertebrae, an inflamed wound in her scalp, and
severe bruising to her face. On top of this, Maria suffers from multiple
seizures during the day. <br>
<br>Unfortunately, because Maria's family cannot afford the hospital bills, Maria must be released. <br><br>How many other Maria's are there?<br><br>How
many beautiful children have had their lives flipped upside down in a
heartbeat? Children, who are everyday suffering life threatening
injuries. Whose only obstacle to life itself is the hospital bill they
cannot afford to pay. <br>
<br>So I am partnering with Syrian Relief & Development (SRD) and
running for victims, similar to Maria, which need free emergency medical
care. Help me raise funds for their Refugee Trauma Center, located in a
wing of Akilah Hospital in Amman, Jordan that provides essential
medical treatments completely free of cost, to those in need.</span><br>
<br><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:18px">Your donations are appreciated at: </span><a href="http://www.crowdrise.com/RunReliefSyria" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;font-size:13px;line-height:18px" target="_blank">http://www.crowdrise.com/RunReliefSyria</a><br style="font-size:13px;line-height:18px">
<br style="font-size:13px;line-height:18px"><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:18px">Please feel free to share with family and friends.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:18px"><br>
</span></font></div><div><span class=""><font color="#888888"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Ahmad El Khatib</font><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign </font></div>
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<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Civil and Environmental Engineering</font></div><div><br></div></font></span></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div><font color="#000000" face="times new roman,serif"><b>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</b></font></div>
<div><font face="times new roman,serif"><i><b><font color="#ff0000">Students</font> for Justice in <font color="#009900">Palestine</font> </b></i></font></div>
<div><font face="times new roman,serif"><i><b>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</b></i></font></div>
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