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Once a year, the hills are filled with the sound of bells, announcing the birth of the spring deity. They live only a few, ephemeral, beautiful months.

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Today’s campaign:

Ahmed Al-Habil, who I have personally donated to.

€6,403/€50,000 [12.8%]

please help her

her gofundme

saving al-genina

Dear Friend,

I hope this message finds you in a moment of peace. My name is Ghazi Al Amoudi, and I’m reaching out to you from the depths of despair. My family and I are trapped in Gaza, caught in the relentless storm of war. We’ve lost everything—our home, our safety, and the foundation of our lives 💔. Now, we find ourselves huddled in a fragile tent, vulnerable to the harsh elements and living in constant fear 💨💦.

With a heart filled with both sorrow and hope, I am desperately asking for your help 😢. Every bit of support—whether a donation, a share, or a kind word—brings us one step closer to escaping this nightmare. Our home, once a place of warmth and love, is now a memory buried under rubble 💔. We are left with only fear and uncertainty, struggling to survive each day 😔.

Please, if you can find it in your heart, help us find safety 😭🙏. Even the smallest act of kindness can light up our darkest hours, offering us a chance to rebuild our shattered lives. Your compassion could be the turning point between despair and a new beginning 🥺❤.

Here is my campaign link: https://gofund.me/8a2c70d7. If you are unable to donate, simply sharing our story could help us reach someone who can.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you for your kindness and support 🙏❤.

With deep gratitude, Ghazi Al Amoudi

15% of my long-term goal

1,576€ out of 10,000€

Donations are protected by GOFUNDME

Per the links in the ask, this campaign has multiple sources of verification.

I think it should even apply to renters so a landlord is required to allow you to have a garden

You know who else has stressful, underpaid jobs and deal with rude and abusive customers a lot? Retail workers. But if a retail worker started assaulting all of their customers you'd hear all about it, wouldn't you? The consequences would be enormous, and there would be an overwhelmingly negative response, even if it was exclusive to rude customers.

Now imagine this was the norm, and it was socially acceptable, encouraged even, in retail jobs to abuse and assault your customers whenever you feel like it, for any perceived sleight, just because they need to buy groceries and you have to serve them. It would be all over the news, it would be an international scandal with arrests all over the place, there would be exposés of the secret culture of abuse and assault in retail workplaces on every channel and news source with interviews with the victims. Everyone would know about it and everyone would care, because of course that's fucked up.

For those unaware, the blog "gazavetters" which claimed to be run by legitimate Gazans on the ground and was verifying Gazan fundraisers, has been purged and a vague message was left on the blog seemingly discrediting vetting as a whole.

Myself and the team in @gaza-evacuation-funds are not associated with them and we never have been.

Their message is too vague to say what the actual intent behind it is, as it is written by ESL speakers. It seems to be criticizing the vetting practice rather than the fundraisers themselves but zionists will hear what they want to hear. The message is currently being co-opted by the racist and cruel "all Gazans are scammers" gang because of the vague nature of the message. Do Not be drawn in by that or fall into their racist trap.

Unfortunately it is hard to say the damage this vague message has done to many possibly legitimate fundraisers on the gazavetters list, as their legitimacy is now up in the air, in addition to every other gazan on tumblr fundraising for their families.

Though we are incredibly disappointed and puzzled by how things have been handled by gazavetters, we are investigating what happened there because we are commited to legitimate gazan fundraisers and deserving people continuing to get the support that they need.

Regardless of our findings, it is a reality that we may not be able to re-verify every single family on their list. And all we can offer is to try and shed more light on the situation. And unfortunate as it is that many families' legitimacy was harmed, we can't be held responsible for the actions of others.

There is no other way to put this. They are using nuclear bombs to bomb Gaza and Lebanon. It's not your typical way of imagining a nuclear weapon but that is exactly what this is! These have ever lasting consequences on both the people and the environment!!

When NATO bombed my country with depleted uranium bombs, my peers and I, only 10yo at the time, have suffered different medical issues but most prominent one being that of thyroid glance disorder which can affect majority of the functions in your body. I was under treatment for a decade. I was then warned the consequences are permanent! About 20 years later, I am gaining signs of hypothyroidism and will most likely have go under treatment for the rest of my life due to deteriorated health! And these are the effects I'm facing with DEPLETED uranium, I can't even picture what Gazans are facing and will have to face WITH THE ENRICHED URANIUM BOMBS!

Can you even imagine being stuck in a place with NO proper diet, clean water or proper shelter, constantly under the stress and having to move while also possibly suffering different medical conditions already, only to be exposed to the radiation of the bombs which will change your life permanently and most likely shorten it?

Ruba was already hospitalized once. Iyad has to buy medication for a type 2 diabetes with inflated prices in Gaza. Meanwhile, Paypal announced on October 7th they will close their campaign in January 2025. AND THEY ARE NOWHERE NEAR THEIR FINAL GOAL YET.

They have to collect AT LEAST $575 DAILY to even hope to reach their final goal in time! Any donation means a lot to them just please keep donating to their cause! People of Gaza are already suffering enough while facing permanent health problems ahead... SO PLEASE DONATE!

As of this post, they are at $15.443 out of $16k, NEXT URGENT SHORT TERM GOAL. PLEASE KEEP THE DONATIONS COMING. THANK YOU.

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YES! We’re currently seeing a decline in climate change denial because it’s becoming impossible to ignore, and a predictable increase in unrealistic easy fixes.

Electric cars, planes, factories, etc: the idea that we can just make everything electric is a myth. We are not even able to produce all the electricity that we’re currently using in a ‘green’ way, and as we try to get there we are already running into trouble because solar panels, wind turbines etc all require the mining of rare earth minerals and most electric devices require batteries which require a LOT of rare earth minerals. All this mining causes massive pollution, displaces impoverished communities, damages ecosystems and more. There is a place for some electronic transport and producing in our future, but is can not just be scaled to replace all the fossil fuels we’re currently using. We are going to actually rely on less energy and less batteries.

Carbon emission pricing and trading: “let’s let the free market solve things!”. This essentially allows rich corporations to keep on polluting by paying a little extra. Check out https://co2colonialism.org/ to learn more about why this is dangerous bullshit.

Carbon capture and Storage (CCS): responsible media will often mention that this is ‘experimental, expensive and difficult to scale’. What they rarely mention is that most carbon capture projects often rely on storing CO2 underground in ways that require infinite maintenance in hard to reach locations like old mines, where only marginalized people live. Carbon leaks in the event of storage failures or stuff like earthquackes is extremely dangerous to locals and to the planet as a whole. Do we believe that states will actually do responsible things here? I don’t. Another issue is that most carbon capture technologies focus on capturing some percentage of carbon during the burning of fossil fuels, meaning they’re tied to the continued use of fossil fuels. If we actually stop using fossil fuels as we should, all the investments in those technologies become useless, and they know that. They’re betting on politicians allowing them to use fossil fuels for longer because those some politicians tied their career to investments in the success of carbon capture technologies that are tied to the burning of fossil fuels.

“Bridge fuels”, “Bio fuels”, “Natural gas”: this is just the burning of trees or gas to produce electricity. It’s not green, it’s not bio, it’s not natural. It’s just more pollution.

Carbon offset or “CO2 equivalent projects”: this allows corporations to keep polluting as long as they just plant some trees. Products often claim ‘Net Zero Emission’ by buying carbon offsets equivalent to the amount of CO2 that went into making the project. This is bullshit. Many of these offset projects do not work or are much less efficient that they claim to be and some are outright fraudulent. Often they harm and displace indigenous and impoverished communities. A lot of carbon offset projects are implemented in the global south to allow the global north to continue to pollute. Again: check out https://co2colonialism.org/ Also, an easy list of terms: https://co2colonialism.org/list-of-terms/

Geo engineering: this is the group term for massive world wide technological interventions to lower they earths temperature. The most prominent among them are ‘solar radiation modification’ (SRM) techniques. These focus on making big reflective surfaces or pumping aerosols into the stratosphere to block sunlight. They are scary as fuck. They’re basically playing around with all the ecosystems on earth and hoping we don’t accidentally break the systems that keep earth livable in the process, by, ya know, blocking the sun. These projects are massive, mostly irreversible, very risky and none of them actually stop global warming. Instead they delay it, meaning that the moment these massive projects stop, global warming catches up and the earth goes through super fast warming in a short period of time, giving ecosystems even less time to adapt.

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Today’s campaign:

Tasneem Nabil Musa, from Vetted Gaza Evacuation Fundraiser List. (#19)

$28,418/$50,000 [56.8%]

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did that frustrate you for a minute before realizing those were fake? was it annoying that you couldn't access this post?

ok now imagine if this was the case for every image on your dash. for many blind and visually impaired people this is what they experience all the time on this app. Tumblr is very inaccessible but it doesn't have to be. providing image descriptions (whether in text or alt text) creates a better experience on Tumblr for BVI folks

👏add image descriptions to your posts👏

✅ Verified campaign – please check the end of the story 🔍📌

I'm Anas Basil, a recent high school graduate with dreams of pursuing a degree in e-business management and building a career. However, due to my family's financial hardships, I enrolled at Khan Younis Training College (KYTC), affiliated with UNRWA. Sadly, the war has turned the college, once a beacon of hope and education, into a shelter for displaced families, stripping it of its educational purpose.

I completed high school with a 93% average, filled with excitement about continuing my education and securing a job to support my family. But like so many others, the war has shattered those dreams.

My younger brother, Ahmad, is 14 years old and currently in the third grade of preparatory school. We’ve always called him "Doctor of the Future" because of his intelligence and natural talent in mathematics. Unfortunately, due to the ongoing war, he has been deprived of schooling for the second consecutive year. In addition to his academic abilities, Ahmad has a passion for football and used to win tournaments.

Our Life in Displacement: The war forced our family to flee to Rafah, where we lived in a tent for several months. Each day, my brother and I would wake up to fetch water, gather wood, and light a fire to prepare food. Survival became our daily task, but we never gave up hope. The conflict affected us deeply, but it did not extinguish our dreams of education and a better future.

🚀 How Your Donation will Help us:

We are seeking €29,000 to help Ahmed and me leave Gaza, continue our education. More importantly, it will allow us to support our family, who have been deeply affected by the harsh conditions and skyrocketing costs of living due to the ongoing war in Gaza.

We've outlined how your donations will make this possible. You can find all the details in the campaign link below.

👉 Donation link: 🔗https://gofund.me/32e5e95e

Your contribution will not only help us escape the war-torn reality we live in but also give us the opportunity to rebuild our futures.

Every donation, no matter the amount, brings us one step closer to our goal.

With deepest gratitude, Anas & Ahmed

✅ Our Fundraiser✅ 🔍Vetted by @gazavetters, official (list at #83) 🔍Vetted by @90-ghost here 🔍Vetted by association in this post

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