there there.

Yea this is what I do instead of studying for finals

for context, since last november-ish i have been volunteering with a team helping students in gaza (and recent refugees) find international scholarships, which carries particular weight because some countries will help evacuate students who have a scholarship to one of their institutions. for the most part we try to find full tuition scholarships that also cover living expenses, but when a student does get a scholarship, there are often extra costs for things like travel/visa expenses/health insurance/etc., and there aren't a ton of resources to cover that. we also fundraised last year to cover application fees for undergraduate applications to the uk, and we'll probably repeat that for this upcoming cycle. our main goal is connecting people to existing funds, not so much raising funds ourselves, so these fundraisers should be relatively few, but at the same time we are not very well-equipped when we do want to fundraise, so if you can share literally anywhere that would help a ton.

right now we have two fundraisers running:

help abdalbari evacuate and finish high school, for a fifteen-year-old who has received a full scholarship to a uk boarding school and needs to pay for a guardian service so he can have a legal guardian in the uk (required for underage international students).

help gazan scholarship students reach their universities, for four masters students who have received scholarships and need help closing the gap between the scholarship amount and the actual realistic costs of moving to/living in a new country.

obviously the possibility of evacuation is uncertain, so if the students aren't able to evacuate, the funds will be distributed to other students or saved for the next application cycle. the need far outstrips the available resources, so literally anything helps.