Help Qusay Escape the Tents of Gaza to Glasgow University

This is an appeal to help Qusay Al-Reqeb get to safety and take up a place at Glasgow University, where he has been offered an unconditional offer.

Qusay is 93% towards his target.

He writes:

“My name is Qusay Al-Reqeb, and I am writing these words from a place where hope is as scarce as bread. For over eight months, my “home” has been a thin fabric tent pitched on the sand of the Gaza shore.

Imagine waking up every day to the sound of waves, not as a luxury, but as a reminder that you have nowhere else to go. We have been displaced multiple times, fleeing from death only to face a slower one. In this tent, there is no privacy, no warmth and no certainty. When it rains, we soak; when the sun is out, we stifle.

But the weather is not our only enemy. We are living through a period of profound starvation. My father’s salary has been cut off for more than two years, leaving us with nothing. There are days when our only goal is to find a single meal. Education seems like a luxury in a place where people are fighting for a bag of flour but, for me, it is the only path back to humanity.

Against all odds, amidst the hunger and the constant fear of bombardment, I managed to secure an acceptance to the University of Glasgow. When I received the email, I cried—not just out of joy, but out of the sheer impossibility of it. How can a young man who hasn’t had a proper meal or a roof over his head in months reach the halls of one of the world’s oldest universities?

I refuse to let my story end under a piece of plastic on a beach. I have the brains, the ambition and the will but I am trapped by poverty and war. I am reaching out to your humanity. I am asking for a chance to trade the smell of smoke and salt for those of books and ink.

Your donation will be my bridge out of this nightmare. It will cover:
Tuition Fees, for the Computing Science course that I could never dream of affording.
Living Expenses, to help me recover from months of malnutrition and start a new life in Scotland.

Every donation, no matter how small, is an act of mercy. It is a statement that a student from Gaza deserves a future, not just a grave.”

Go here to support him: https://gofund.me/ef2d9fdba