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I urgently need $339 left for the cost of my mother's back operation

Subject : Collecting money for my mother's operation in her back

Current process :

USD 3,224 / $3,563

Vetted by @sar-soor

Vetted by @opencommunion

Vetted by @el-shab-hussein

My Mother's Life Depends on Your Kindness

My mother is in Gaza, where every day is a struggle to survive. Some time ago, she was injured when shrapnel from nearby shelling struck her back. She tried to endure the pain for as long as she could, but now her condition has become critical.

She has now been admitted to the hospital, and her condition is very serious. She is suffering from unbearable back pain, extreme exhaustion, and every passing day brings more suffering. Watching my mother fight through this pain while I can do so little is heartbreaking.

The doctors told us that she urgently needs emergency back surgery. They warned us that the operation must be performed within the next 6 days to prevent her condition from deteriorating further.

The total cost of this life-saving surgery is $1,000.

Thanks to the incredible kindness of compassionate people, we have now raised $267 through our previous fundraising posts. We are deeply grateful to every person who has donated, shared our story, or kept my mother in their prayers.

That means we still need $441 from this appeal to complete the remaining amount needed for her surgery. We are getting closer, but time is running out, and every dollar brings my mother one step closer to the operation that could save her life.

I am begging you from the bottom of my heart: please don't scroll past my mother's suffering. Every donation, no matter how small, truly makes a difference. Even $5 or $10 can help when many kind people come together.

If you are unable to donate, please share this post with your friends, family, and community. Your share could reach someone who is able to help save my mother's life.

Please help us raise the remaining $441 within the next 6 days. My mother's condition is very serious, and she cannot wait any longer.

Thank you for your kindness, your prayers, and for standing with my family during the most difficult time of our lives.

We have reduced our own food so we can save every possible donation for her treatment.

We have received almost no donations. The last one came three days ago.🙏

My grandmother is suffering from serious kidney problems. If her treatment is delayed, she could develop kidney failure, and her body may not be able to withstand it. We are terrified of losing her.

Please, my grandmother is in a critical condition. Her chance of survival depends on the support and kindness of people willing to stand beside her. * We need $420 every week to keep my grandmother from reaching kidney failure—a condition that could cost her her life.💔😭

Please, any donation, no matter how small, helps us provide her essential treatment and gives her a chance to survive.🙏🙏

Hilda💔🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Donation link

🟢 Multiple vetted

✅ @/gazavetter – List Number #14

✅ @/90-ghost

✅ @/gaza-evacuation-funds – List Number #451

🆘The doctor told me that my grandmother must take her medication regularly.💔🙏🙏

Interrupting her treatment would put her life at serious risk💔😭

🙏If you are unable to donate, please help by sharing this post. Even sharing it could help us reach someone who can save her life .

🔴Please, any donation—whether it's $10, $15, or $20—makes a real difference and brings us closer to providing my grandmother's treatment.💔💔🙏🙏🙏

The doctors confirmed that my father’s condition is critical and delaying treatment could cost him his life.

Watching him like this is breaking me. I feel helpless standing beside him and unable to provide the treatment he needs.

I am so afraid of losing him at any moment.

Please don’t ignore this. Donate or share, anything can help.

My father’s condition is very critical, and we truly need your help.

Not everyone can donate, but at least please share this post. It might reach someone who can help.

The hardest feeling is watching someone you love suffer while your hands are empty.

When they took my mother into the operating room, l felt like I couldn't breathe. I kept praying that l would see her alive again. By God's mercy, she survived the surgery, and I will never forget the people who stood beside us and helped us reach that moment 🙏

But our journey is not over yet. She is still in the hospital under close medical observation, and we still need $700 to cover her remaining hospital bills.. medications, and treatment 💔

What hurts me the most is that for two full days, not a single donation has come. I keep opening the fundraiser every few minutes, hoping to see even one small contribution, hoping to feel that someone still hears us. Every time I see the number unchanged, I feel my heart sink a little more 😔

I know people are tired of seeing fundraising posts. I know everyone has their own worries. But I am asking you as a daughter who is terrified of watching her mother suffer after everything she has already endured. Please don't leave us at the very end of this journey

If just 28 people donate $25, we can cover the remaining amount. Twenty-eight people could take away the fear that has been sitting on my chest day and night

Please, I'm begging you don't scroll away thinking someone else will help. We have come so far, and I don't want our journey to stop when we're this close

If you have ever wanted to make a real difference in someone's life, this is your moment. Please help my mother finish her recovery without the weight of unpaid medical bills hanging over our family 😔💔

Please don't leave us alone now. We need you more than ever🙏

Current process: USD 18,320 / $19,020

Vatted by: @90-ghost

Vatted by: @sar-soor

Namaygoosisagagun First Nation/Collins has burned to the ground. The entire community is nothing but ashes after being quickly consumed by wildfires. They did not have any support from emergency services, and no one offered aid. The community saved themselves by escaping into boats because no one came.

Mishkeegogamang and Cat Lake have lost power. Families are ending up in shelters with nothing. Armstrong, Lac La Croix, Whitesand, Gull Bay, Lac des Mille Lacs are currently in the fires path and all members are being evacuated.

All this loss, all this devastation, and it was entirely preventable.

After steadily underfunding wildland firefighting and purposefully excluding Indigenous wildland firefighters and Indigenous wildfire organizations from wildfire operations, firefighter training, decisionmaking, and resource exchanges, in 2025, Doug Ford slashed the forest firefighting budget.

It's hard to ignore his decision to cut funding and leave us out of adequate fire training (even though we've lived with forest fires for thousands of years—far longer than settlers have been in Canada—and made sure fires like the ones we're all seeing today were prevented through kinisitotēn) when, despite making up less than 5% of the population, we account for 42% percent of all wildfire evacuations in Canada.

And when we are successfully evacuated, we face discrimination and racism—like Kashechewan—because it's always been easier to blame us than it is to blame the true culprit: denialism, corportate greed, and colonization.

The people of Collins and every other impacted community deserve better.

Right now, the AFN is currently accepting donations to help Collins First Nation. If you're able to, please consider donating.

ONWA (Ontario Native Women's Association) is another great place to donate to. They have outreach vans going to motels and inns and offering food, water, resources, and cultural support to those impacted by the wildfires.

Other places to consider donating to are Mikinakoos Emergency Fund, Red Cross, True North Aid, Indigenous Climate Action. You can also send donations directly to Whitesand First Nation via e-transfer ([email protected]) and they request that you add your full name in the e-transfer comment section to receive a tax receipt.

*Before sending money, verify that the appeal appears on an official First Nation, Tribal Council or registered charity channel.

If you can't offer financial support, please consider donating items of need. Moontime Connections is currently accepting drop-off donations. If you live in the Thunder Bay area, Namaygoosisagagun Health Office is also taking in donations! They can also bemailed to Superior Inn Hotel & Conference Centre at 555 West Arthur Street, Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 5P8.

items needed are: food, diapers, medical masks, men’s and women’s joggers (all sizes), children’s clothing (newborn to size 14), children’s shoes, summer clothing, men’s clothing, toiletries (lotion, Vaseline, toothpaste, toothbrushes, shampoo, conditioner, soap, deodorant, etc.), strollers, adult depends-all sizes, dog & cat food

Posted: July 16, 2026

Now, more changes to the Endangered Species Act by the current administration continue to attack crucial parts of the law to protect habitat and newly listed species.

These changes prioritize harmful development over science-based management and make it harder to put species on a path to recovery.

A healthy marine ecosystem is essential to support biodiversity and save endangered species. We need an Endangered Species Act and management guided by science and expertise that puts the environment first.

Sign up for ocean action emails to learn more about what you can do to support endangered species:

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Cards 2-4 in the Yuru-Kyara/Japanese Mascots ATC/ACEO series.

For more than two and a half years, you have stood by me through some of the hardest moments of my life. Your support, your words, and your kindness helped us keep going when we were close to breaking. Because of you, we were able to hold on, and I will never forget that.

But the truth is, our story is not over yet.

We have lost everything, our home, our source of income, and the stability we once had. It feels like we are not just starting from zero, but trying to rise from below it.

Now things are even harder with my father’s illness. He needs ongoing care and treatment, while we are facing a complete lack of income. Even covering our basic daily needs has become a real struggle.

We are doing everything we can to stay strong, but we cannot do it alone anymore.

I am not asking for much, just for you to stand by us as you always have. Any support, no matter how small, can make a real difference. It can help us cover my father’s treatment, provide our basic needs, and help us keep going.

And if you are unable to donate, simply sharing our story could help it reach someone who can.

Thank you for being there for us and for not leaving us alone.

Current ArtFight Artist Trading Cards so far:

Seedy- tr0ll_G00BER on AF

Gloom- Cozybiscoff on AF

Sapphire Flutterby- @chibijenhen

Anita Darling- BugsApothecary on AF

Snatchboose- @achtitude

Rou Z Doozy- @pibafish

Capsule- kirakya on AF

Pierre- @keratheartist

Phanta- @pastille-pain

Lemondrop Sugar Shell- n3rdyDr4g0n on AF

Round 2! We have:

@recordydemony PIP

@wasabiwasteland Flore

@selcidia Hush

@catbitez Max

@tibbl Sock

Trans Atlantic Vernacular English (TAVE)

(AKA “Good American Speech” dialect)

This particular dialect was popularly used in film and media way back in the 1900’s to the 1950’s, before the advent of television and televised broadcasts. It combined aspects of British and American English dialects, verbal cues and tics to create a dialect that gave a more “audio friendly feel” for film and radio.

However it became more synonymous with New York Media outlets (we’re talking the likes of early NBC radio broadcasts).

Actors, Voice Actors and Radio Artists would often used a form of Trap-Bath lingualism (often a term to describe a change in pronunciation in select letter combinations (eg: “err” pronunciations in the middle of words were pronounced as “oy”, words with “eeng” pronunciation at the end would be pronounced as “inn”, “err” or “arr” pronunciation at the end of words were pre pronounced as “ahh”, and so on), and short “ay” pronunciation split (“ay” pronunciation was often pronounced as “ehh” instead).

The dialect was seen as more “audio friendly” because it took in to account the faults early audio equipment had at the time (a lot of early microphones, radio wave conductors and amplifiers were very staticky and hit or miss, and so certain pronunciations of words were often lost to poor audio quality). So, the language helped to offer better verbal eloquence (or clarity and prestige of certain verbal pronunciations and grammar) to accommodate the audio equipment’s faults.

Granted, with animation, these pronunciations were very much….. exaggerated and given variation depending on the character’s context (more “lowbrow” characters were given a much more pronounced exaggeration of this dialect to indicate low intelligence, “sarcastic” and “snarky” characters were given a gruffer variation to indicate annoyance, and so on). Plus, these cartoons played off of “other aspects” of famous actors at the time and….. Indigenous, Black and Southeast Asian people (yeah….. a majority of early animation played off of Vaudevillian aspects, including mockery of Indigenous, Black and Southeast Asian people (often portraying them as “unintelligent” and “uncivilized” (meaning most characters that were portrayed as animals, “mammy” stereotypes, or had dark fur or complexions were intentionally referencing Black people, “red-skinned” characters referenced Indigenous peoples and characters with “yellow-skin” and slanted eyes referenced Southeast Asian people).