neema. 27. nairobi. a documentation

by the way, ik everyone is paying attention to politicians' sex scandals, but you should know there was a collapse at one of the copper/cobalt mining operations in the drc with at least 32 deaths. here is an al jazeera link to the story. if you are reading this from a mobile phone or laptop, or if you use a vape, you should be paying attention. these are the people who have suffered for you to have those things. it is suspected that 200,000 people or more have been exploited into these illegal and dangerous mining operations. that is greater than the population of ontario, canada.

I’ve noticed that at the beginning of the genocide, people were more focused on donating and spreading the news compared to now.

I feel like once fundraising posts get a certain amount of notes, people stop reblogging them because they assume it translates to the amount of money donated, but it doesn't. The last post I made for Laila got about 1,800 notes in a month-and-a-half, but didn't make that many euros in that time. It hasn't even made a thousand. When I started trying to spread her campaign, it wasn't abnormal to make a thousand a day. It's depressing to see how much engagement has fallen off for Palestine. Laila's mother is/was pregnant (Laila hasn't contacted me in a while, she might have given birth already- can you imagine trying to take care of a baby in the middle of Gaza?), and her whole family is suffering from malnutrition and the hellish conditions of living in an open-air concentration camp. It seems hopeless sometimes, but donations do matter. I'm not including a counter for the fundraiser anymore- I feel like people see the 30k euros raised and feel like it represents how much money the Shaqouras have in their account, but it doesn't. With how high the costs of living are in Gaza, I wouldn't be surprised if they had less than a thousand. Evacuating is still an eventual goal for a lot of families, but right now what they need the most is immediate donations to buy food and medicine and other essentials that are prohibitively expensive even when they're available. Don't think of it like "well my five bucks aren't gonna fulfill the remaining 15k of this evacuation goal," think of it as "my five bucks are gonna help this family buy food and water and medicine today." They still need your help, and literally anything you do goes a long way towards their survival. Please, keep sharing and donating and doing everything you can to help the Palestinian people survive the inhuman cruelty the world is doing unto them.