Folks, just a heads up: I’m busily coding a Gaza Verified Emergency Appeal site so that we can raise one amount that will get all our remaining families in the danger zone in the North to safety in the South.
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Folks, just a heads up: I’m busily coding a Gaza Verified Emergency Appeal site so that we can raise one amount that will get all our remaining families in the danger zone in the North to safety in the South.
I’m adapting the donation form I’d made for us at Small Technology Foundation (https://small-tech.org/fund-us – don’t worry about donations to us at the moment, eye on the ball, folks!)
Joy’s busy compiling the list of Gaza Verified families that are still stuck in the North and the monies they need to get to the South.
We’re going to add those up and set a total amount and then push that out with a campaign similar to the one I ran last night. I could really use your help once that starts to spread the word and help out if you can.
I don’t have the exact number of families off the top of my head right now (head in code mode) but it’s too many. Even one is too many. Anyway…
So we’re going to collect the donations into our Small Technology Foundation account and then transfer them to everyone’s individual fundraisers. I’ve got that basic functionality running right now (it looks like crap but it’s running so I’m going to work on making the page look more appealing for the rest of the day).
As much as I’d like to start the campaign tonight, realistically, it’s better if we start it tomorrow.
Every night, though, is a chance that we will have fewer families to help…
Anyway, I just wanted to give you a heads up. If you’re around tomorrow, I could use your help in spreading the word.
Thank you all so much for showing our Gaza Verified family so much love already.
I think I’ll be able to breath a little easier once the remaining families in the North are safely in the South.
#GazaVerified #Gaza #Palestine #fediAid #GazaVerifiedEmergencyAppeal
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@aral Thank you
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The site is coming along, fingers crossed, we should be able to start the campaign tomorrow.
(We haven’t raised any money for it yet and that’s not the amount we‘re aiming for, that’s just dummy data and wishful thinking in the screenshot.)
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Right, I think the campaign site is ready :)
It even automatically updates the status on open pages as donations come in (thanks to Kitten’s¹ event-based model) :)
Yay! Will deploy tomorrow :)
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Folks, a quick update on my plans for today regarding the Gaza Verified Emergency Appeal we’re launching today.
• The site is ready (as it’ll be, we can improve as we go).
• Updates to Small Technology Foundation site to suspend our own fundraising and forward to the emergency appeal are also ready to deploy
• I also made a simple call to action SVG with a basic image embed code that you can add to your sites. More info when appeal launches.
• The amount we’ve been able to gather from people we’ve been able to reach is ~$12,700. I’m thinking that we’ll round that up to $15,000 so we have some padding to account for constantly rising prices on the ground and to account for a rapidly evolving situation. (@joynewacc’s been doing an amazing job with this in the middle of everything else and I just want to express again my immense respect for her.)I also need to pick up Laura from the airport. She’s scheduled to arrive before 3PM Irish Time so, barring any delays, I aim to be back and launch the campaign at around 5PM Irish Time (which should be good for the European and American time zones).
That said, Dublin Airport has been evacuated due a security threat (https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0920/1534475-dublin-airport-evacuation/) and if there are delays, I might launch it before I leave for the airport.
Will need your help to spread the word when I do.
I’ll keep you updated.
Thank you all for your amazing support so far.
#GazaVerified #Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerifiedEmergencyAppeal #EmergencyAppeal #fediAid #statusUpdate
