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Several states in Malaysia are suffering through flash floods after days of endless heavy rain. Houses, apartments, vehicles, and properties alike have been submerged or destroyed, leaving the citizens with little to nothing to salvage. Some of them are stuck in highways for two days. Some of them are stranded on their roofs for more than 3 days with no food, clean water, electricity, and all the basic necessities they need to survive. Roads are closing and are disintegrating. Landslides are rampant.

Here’s what’s happening:

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The government has done nothing significant to help the people. The fire fighters are only making their way into affected towns after the flood has slowed down a bit, and what they found is the missing people, who did not survive this tragedy. They’re not properly equipped with this, even if some of the senators have warned about how bad this was gonna get back in 26/7/2021. (LINK)

The Malaysians are doing their best they can for others, hundreds of volunteers taking it into their own hands to send over food, clothing, diapers, menstruation pads, soap and shampoos, and all the required necessities to the effected towns in bulks by boats and trucks. They’re saving stranded animals who their owners, with a broken heart, are forced to leave them or did not have the chance to save them.

Here are what the Malaysians are doing:

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#DaruratBanjir (translation: Flood Emergency) is the main hashtag on twitter that the people have used to reach out for everyone and anyone when flash floods are still on going. This is where you’ll be able to see just how disastrous everything is, just how much people are suffering. But, in the light that is the darkness, the people are doing everything they can for others, there will always be an ear or two to hear their needs and are more than happy to take action.

#KitaJagaKita (translation: We Help Us) is a hashtag for Malaysians who require help, those who want to help hands-on, or to just spread information on twitter. It’s been used since the pandemic started back in 2020, where the people have lend a helping hand to those who are in poverty and couldn’t—can’t— provide for their families, and it has also using it for the flash floods as well.

But, it’s not enough. The people are doing everything they can, and they’re not giving up. They’e still pushing through every obstacle in their paths, only exhaustion is starting to weight on them despite how hard they try to fight it. Malaysians need your help, our international friends, to participate if you can.

Here are some donations that non-Malaysians can do:

1) Mercy Malaysia

The person below can help if you have any problems with geo/legal restrictions, he’ll be the bridge for your donations.

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(TWITTER HANDLE: @/penatsetan)

2) The Hope Branch

The Hope Branch is making donations of MYR500,000 to help the citizens throughout the COVID-19 AND flash floods, and has already reached MYR483,051. Their goal started on 13/1/2021 and is ending by 31/12/2021. Every penny counts!

(DONATE HERE)

3) Reimena Notion Site

@reimenaashelyee has done a Flood Relief Hub where Malaysian artists are coordinating donation drives for international followers to the flood relief.

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4) gogetfunding.com

Ceddy Ang has set up a fundraising page for non-Malaysians. To quote him,

“I do not and will not take a single cent, I will keep everyone updated through the page. Currently capping the goal at USD $1,500 because I'm trying out this site for the first time. GoFundMe wouldn't allow a Malaysian to withdraw. :)”

Be sure to check it out!

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5) Thread of local hotlines

Hanna Alkaf, the Malaysian author to 1) The Weight of Our Sky and 2) The Girl and the Ghost has done a thread of hotline services to help with the reliefs. It contains everything you need to donate and help the people. If you have a twitter account, be sure to retweet the thread to help spread awareness!

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It breaks my heart that I don’t see tumblr making an effort to help the Malaysians, we need everyone we can with this!

Headlines have to be as streamline as possible. Aka, they can’t include names unless the article is about a well-known public figure.

Those “water is wet” articles do more then explain what you already know, they’re providing evidence and sources that support/explain what you already know.

Example: if a group of people has been claiming to experience workplace discrimination, and a study is conducted confirming that they are, in fact, experiencing workplace discrimination, the study isn’t evidence that the researchers “didn’t believe” that the discrimination was happening! It’s just the scientific method!!!

Like it’s really not about “doubting” that group of people’s experiences or some kind of insinuation that they’re lying about being discriminated against. Especially since the research is probably just...asking??? people????? so you can be like, “we asked 3,000 people about the workplace discrimination they have experienced using the following survey questions, here’s the breakdown of what they said.” Like no matter how much you “believe” people you still need that information in an organized and collected format to actually DO anything with it