Three siblings were left orphaned after both of their parents were killed by Covid-19.

Nada Ayram, 46, died of coronavirus on April 21 and her husband, Nameer Ayram, 52, passed away from the virus about 20 days later in Troy, Michigan, according to their obituary, leaving their 20-year-old son, Nashwan, and two daughters, ages 18 and 13, without their parents.

Nashwan has since been left to take care of his sisters and pay the family’s bills, according to the United Community Family Services/Chaldean American Ladies of Charity, a nonprofit collecting donations for the family.

‘They’re not doing well,’ said Renee Yando, the chairwoman of the nonprofit’s board said.

Yaldo said her nonprofit first learned about the Ayram family in March when Nameer and Nada Ayram were severely ill with the virus. Both were on ventilators in different hospitals while their children were at home, unable to visit their parents.

‘Nash is devastated and the girls are not taking it well. I mean, they lost both of their parents within weeks of each other. They had no idea the day their parents left them would be the last time they would see them,’ Yaldo told Detroit News.

According to Yaldo, Nameer and Nada Ayram fled Iraq in 2012 and have no family in the Metro Detroit area.

A GoFundMe page for the family has already raised over $110,000 of its $100,000 goal, but Yaldo said her organization does not have a goal for donations.

‘We cant’ put a number on it and we don’t have a goal because, honestly, what is going to be the goal for the rest of these kids’ lives,’ Yaldo said.

‘It’s going to be an ongoing thing. We thought it was somethign that was going to help the family pay bill for the next year so while their parents recovered. Now the goal is set to get all three kids to adulthood.’

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