many palestinians have reached out to me to ask for donations recently, so for ease of access i'm compiling their stories and campaigns here (click their names for links to their fundraisers). all of them have been vetted; they are real people, and are in real need of help!
Tahseen Kahzen (@tahseenkhazen) - $8,846/$25,000 USD
Mohammed Mikki (@mohamed-mikki) - $1,461/$20,000 USD
Hadeel Mekki (@hadeelchilds) - €12,214/€35,000 EUR
Fadi Ayyad (@aymanayyad1) - $34,832/$35,000 USD (ONLY $168 LEFT!!!)
Munna Tashmali (@monashamali) - £13,187/£30,000 GBP
Fatima Alanqar (@fatma93-gaza) - €4,725/€20,000 EUR
Mahmoud Khalaff (@mahmoudkhalafff) - €21,985/€30,000 EUR
Mohammed Alanqer (@mohammedalanqer) - €55,586/€58,000 EUR
Mohammed Jameel (@mohamedjameel) - €3,230/€35,000 EUR
Haya Nahed (@hayanahed) - €70,576/€100,000 EUR
Noha Al-Habil (@nohaibrahim-2024) - $13,192/$70,000 CAD
Nour Abd (@noorabd1992) - $7,283/$45,000 USD
Wafaa Resh (@wafaaresh) - €26,032/€100,000 EUR
last updated: 8/14/2024
if you can spare even $5 for one of the fundraisers above, please do so - many of these families have a long way to go, and every bit counts!
mkay so last night I had a dream, that I'm too tired to type out again but anyway, the gist of it was that I was in my school's hall but it's set in the 1960's and everything is peaceful when 4 white people start shooting at black people (all the other ethnic people's are no where to be seen ig) and I try to escape and I do but then I'm driven to a pink church/orphanage and in there are these white ladies with poofy hair and their mouths are stretched super wide in sinister smiles, kinda cartoony ngl. Now the thing is that when I have a dream I don't usually remember it that well but this dream felt so real that I can't tell if I have a really good imagination, if this was a moment in my past life or, if this is what happens in another universe and I'm just seeing through another me's eyes.
I hope this message finds you well. I am Mahmoud, a 26-years old father from Gaza. My beloved wife gave birth to our first baby during the war, filling our hearts with joy and love. 🥰🥰 Yet, I am really concerned about the my kid's safety and future. I want him to live the life that I never had. 😔😔 That's why I have created a GFM campaign to evacuate Gaza and build a better future for my family elsewhere. I will be eternally grateful if you care to donate or share my story for other people to see. 🙏🙏
https://gogetfunding.com/help-mahmoud-and-his-family-2/
I hope this helps you and your family.
ok last thing. but what people fundamentally need to get through their heads is the significance of gaza fundraisers not being the same as like mutual aid when you're helping someone get groceries, because it is a genocide. there is insane deliberate scarcity and prices are unmanageable, because there is nowhere nearly enough for everyone, so only people who can pay can eat. and what positioning individual fundraisers as the only course of action does is quite simply give a tiny percentage of random people whose fundraisers take off the ability to pay those prices while thousands of others can't. and every one of those thousands of people without a fundraiser is suffering through the same inconceivably horrific reality. it is giving a few completely desperate people out of hundreds of thousands a slightly more favorable position in a horrific war economy of imposed scarcity. and what grassroots community kitchens do is try to mitigate in some small way that inconceivable hierarchy of who can pay and who can't, by stretching ingredients as far as they can last to cook meals at large scale and give them out at no cost. and obviously people are still going to send money to their friends and families because this is hell what else are we supposed to do but please just think about that before promoting endless individual fundraisers as somehow the most ethical way to help
No thoughts it's 2 am
Imagine yourself in a war zone for more than 220 days, displaced at least 4 times, suffering from a lack of water, food, and medicine, and also suffering from the terror of losing your life or the life of your beloved ones.
Well this is not the worst you can imagine.
Imagine having a two and a half year old child who is as wonderful as a pure angel and living in those conditions.
Well, that's not the worst thing you can imagine.
Imagine experiencing 4 wars in the same region and just thinking about this little angel living in similar circumstances.
I'm really writing with my heart melting for our future and i really don't want my little angel Ahmed to live the same circumstances that i lived.
I have created a campaign on GoFundMe to collect the necessary expenses to leave the danger zone.
Here's the link to my campaign
Please don't understimate any donation you can give, every donation matter a lot.
Your generosity can change the future of an innocent little angel.
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Wait, wait, wait, 🥺
Our tent burned yesterday in the Al-Aqsa Martyrs massacre, and we miraculously escaped death 😭
This is me, Ahmad, before the war of destruction on Gaza🍉
The price of the tent is $ 600. We are now on the street. Please do not be hard-hearted. Contribute to the price of the tent and treatment🥺😭😭😭
If everyone one donate 5$ it can help me please
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Lego Joker💀. Well, it's not completely inaccurate.
everyone take my 114 result ‘which character are you’ uquiz
Episcopal Bishop, Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, publicly called out Trump to his face today at a service at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. This was some next level Jesus-style calling out the powerful that you rarely see exampled anymore.
“Let me make one final plea, Mr. President. Millions have put their trust in you, and as you told the nation yesterday, you have felt the providential hand of a loving God. In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives. The people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meatpacking plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals, they may not be citizens or have the proper documentation, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors. They are faithful members of our churches and mosques, synagogues, gurdwara, and temples.
I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear their parents will be taken away, and that you help those who are fleeing war zones and persecution in their own lands to find compassion and welcome here. Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger, for we were all once strangers in this land. May God grant us the strength and courage to honor the dignity of every human being, to speak the truth to one another in love, and walk humbly with each other and our God, for the good of all people, the good of all people in this nation and the world. Amen.”
I've only read the witch-cat, Cinderella and Aurora and Ancient Greek Tumblr and Twitter. So much more Tumblr folklore!
Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.