if we don't take action now, we'll settle for nothing later

This is my daughter Lia 💔 Her dreams have become so small, just to live without fear and to eat when she is hungry.

I am a mother and I feel helpless every day in front of her. She lost her school, her childhood, even her simplest rights

Her father is injured and lost his job, and I am now pregnant with a baby who will be born in a tent with winter coming. We have no home, no safety, and not enough food.

I write to you with a heavy heart and I ask you to please help us, even a little. Believe me, any donation no matter how small can make a big difference for us, a loaf of bread, a box of milk, a blanket.

We are close to reaching our goal, and any help or sharing from you could give my daughter some of the safety she deserves.

✅ Vetted by gazavetters my number on the list 665

Please please consider helping me out financially to get my best foot forward as a small time educator. Thank you.

Current Goal: 0/750

Link to a post with all my pay apps and gfm info below:

So many notes, so little help.

Now they finally have a chance to continue.

If you can’t donate, don’t worry.

Just reblog it.

It costs nothing, but it might reach someone who can actually change everything.

My last donation was a long time ago, I hope you understand 💔😭

This campaign appears as #370 on this list created by @/el-shab-hussein and @/nabulsi

A post containing this campaign was reblogged by @/el-shab-hussein

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Lola is currently trying to flee Nigeria by getting asylum in Germany. She hopes to become a student there. She can't do that, though, because she has to constantly handle housing fees, which eats into any savings she could possibly start. If we can get her stable housing, she can spend money on things like data subscriptions so she can get an online/remote job and then save for real (and again get stable housing).

If you had to navigate the internet in a language you didn't understand and couldn't even read, how would you go about it?

My friend Wesal (@deemagaza) doesn't speak English. The only way she can find her way around the English internet is by using Google Translate or ask others like me for help. It is very difficult for her.

Yet she has no choice but to do so for her daughter Farah, almost sixteen now, who is autistic and has a kidney problem that - without treatment - makes her deficient in potassium, which, if it becomes too severe, can lead to cardiac arrest.

^ Farah spends most of her days like this now, feeling uncomfortable in her body, but not understanding why.

Farah's medication has become unavailable in Gaza, which has endangered her life and means she has to be treated in the hospital, which is costly and where they are running out of resources as well. Farah's case has now been referred to the WHO to be transferred abroad. If the opportunity for evacuation arises, we must make sure the funds are available!

Please help by donating to Farah's fundraiser and by sharing this post! Farah's fundraiser has been verified by gazavetters, #451!

If anyone has wants to donate but has questions about how the funds are transferred to Farah's family, feel free to get in touch!

If you donate to Farah's campaign, you can get a free commission by @fablebagel! Thank you, Fable! ❤️

tagging for reach, please share and aks your friends to share as well, thank you <3 (let me know if you don't want me to tag you anymore, apologies for any multiple tags)

Wesal's message:

My name is Asmaa, and I am writing on behalf of my brother Diaa.

Right now, Diaa is fighting for his life in the ICU. His condition is extremely critical, and doctors are doing everything they can to keep him alive. He is connected to multiple medical devices, and every hour is filled with fear and uncertainty.

Diaa is not just my brother. He is the pillar of our family. He has always worked tirelessly to support us, care for our parents, and stand beside his nine sisters through every hardship. Even during his own struggles, he always put others before himself.

Today, we are trying to raise $2,000 to help cover the urgent medical care and treatment he desperately needs.

🙏 Please don't scroll past this. A donation can help save a life. A share can reach someone who can help. A prayer can give us hope.

At this moment, Diaa's life is worth more than a simple share — but every share brings us one step closer to saving him.

USD $14,236 / $30,000

Samar's message:

Right now we have 7 kitchens running in and around Gaza City, 5 water trucks delivering fresh water every morning, and our health clinic is still seeing patients. Sadly, our classroom was bombed—but we’ve pivoted to something bigger: Delivered 4,250 food parcels so far; another 2,550 parcels ready to go; in the middle area, we delivered 600 parcels and opened a new kitchen; we keep showing up for hospitals with meals. Each food parcel = 40–60 meals. It’s not just about helping one family—it feeds whole networks of relatives, neighbors, and displaced people. In doing this, we’re also showing the world (and the bad actors watching us) that you can give away a lot of food in Gaza without harming Palestinians. Our signage makes that crystal clear. One moving moment: we’ve been operating from inside an Orthodox and Catholic church. Families shelter there, and they benefit from the food too. Our young team—many who had never met a Christian before—are learning about unity and friendship in real time. Feeding people from a church feels like something Jesus himself would have blessed. We hear the drones above us, and we know they don’t like what we’re doing. But we’ll keep feeding as long as we’re allowed. Our system works: families sign up on a link, we close it when full, assemble the food, and text pickup times. No chaos, no exploitation—just neighbors helping neighbors. Each distribution serves 500–1,000 people with dignity.

Nor are Palestinian Christians some kind of oppressor class. The social role of Christianity in the Levant is different from whatever you are used to seeing in the Christian-majority West. Christians are a marginalised community within Palestine. From an essay I wrote on the subject:

As of 2004, an estimated 56% of all people with Palestinian Christian ancestry were living outside of Palestine. The trend shows no signs of slowing down: a 2020 survey found that a much higher proportion of Christians than Muslims wished to leave Palestine. Respondents cited dire economic circumstances, the dangers of military and settler violence, and religious intolerance, including job discrimination and difficulty having church marriages legally recognized. [...] The Palestinian Authority has stated an intent to try to keep Christians in the West Bank by promoting Christmas festivities. In 2022, a Nativity scene and Christmas tree were publicly displayed in مَيْدَان المَهْد (“maydān al-mahd”; Manger Square) in Bethlehem: the Catholic Church in Bethlehem lights the tree for Advent, beginning four Sundays before Christmas. A Christmas parade, with brightly lit floats carrying Christmas trees, people dressed as angels and Santa Clauses, and Nativity scenes with live actors, took place again for the first time after having been interrupted due to the Coronavirus pandemic, and was broadly attended by Muslims and Christians.

[...] During the first and second اِنْتِفَاضَات‎ (“intifāḍāt”; singular اِنْتِفَاضَة “intifāḍa,” “uprising” or “rebellion”), the tree in Bethlehem was no longer lit due to widespread mourning—Masses continued, but not the public festivities. Instead, private celebrations would take place within the home. Some families began buying artificial Christmas trees rather than real ones, since they were easier to tuck away from windows where they would not be seen from the outside. Even after the lights returned, Israeli military border walls, checkpoints, and curfews hampered Christmas celebrations for many: Christians from Gaza need permits from the Israeli military to take pilgrimages to, or visit family in, Bethlehem and other places in the West Bank, and the majority of those requested are not granted.

So yes, the fact that the volunteer team is coming into contact with a marginalised and isolated community that they had not previously formed any personal relationships with, is a straightforwardly good thing.