Hi everyone,
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Hi everyone,
I’ve just launched the Gaza Verified Emergency Appeal to get our remaining 8 families who are stuck in the danger zone in the North to relative safety in the South.
Gaza Verified
Emergency appeal to get the Gaza Verified families stuck in the danger zone in the North to relative safety in the South.
(gaza-verified.org)
Based on conversations @joynewacc and I have had with them to ascertain what they need (transport, land, tents), we have set the campaign goal at $15,000.
To kick things off, I’ve made a personal donation of $1,000.
These families are living in terror under nightly bombings by Israel. Please, if you can, help them survive Israel’s ongoing genocide. And please share this as widely as you can.
Thank you!
PS. The donations are being collected by our not-for-profit, Small Technology Foundation and the entire sum, minus Stripe’s fees, will be transferred to the individual fundraisers of the families. We have suspended our own fundraising for Small Technology Foundation for the duration of the emergency appeal (https://small-tech.org/fund-us/).
PS. If you keep the campaign page open, you will see the progress meter update and donations coming in in real time.
#GazaVerified #EmergencyAppeal #GazaVerifiedEmergencyAppeal #Gaza #Palestine #fediAid
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@joynewacc And wow, second donation has come in within seconds… we’re at $1,010 :)
(I’m not going to send updates on every donation, don’t worry, but yay!)
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Hi everyone, a quick impact report to you at the end of the first 24 hours of our Gaza Verified Emergency Appeal:
Gaza Verified
Emergency appeal to get the Gaza Verified families stuck in the danger zone in the North to relative safety in the South.
(gaza-verified.org)
We’ve raised $16,975 out of our original goal of $15,000.
Today, I was able to do an instant withdrawal of €7,500 of that ($8,768.79) from Stripe.
This morning, @joynewacc and I had the difficult task of prioritising today’s payouts from that amount. Our criteria were:
• Who’s most at risk (e.g., in Al-Shifa camp, etc.)?
• How can we help the largest number of our families with what we have on hand today?As such, I’ve just completed payments to six of our families:
• @baraaelmoghrabi: $2,000 (she in one of the most dangerous places (al-Shifa camp) and this will allow her to move South tomorrow. She will not have enough to rent a tent yet but she said they could stay in a school until we can get the rest of the money to her, which we will as soon as possible.
• @mittall: $2,000 to get a tent in the South (they are homeless right now).
• @shathamohammed123: $1,200 to move to the South.
• @doaagaza: $1,500 to move to the South.
• @bilal_mo: $1,500 to move his family to the South. He still needs $1,500 for a tent but he can house them with relatives for three days. We will get him the rest in time.
• @ghassangaza: $1,200 as she is about to be evicted. She borrowed $2,000 from a lender for a tent. We were able to negotiate with the lender. He will accept $1,200 and the remaining $800 later.
That brings the total we distributed today to $9,400. I covered the difference (~$630) temporarily from our account since time is of the essence.
We will get to everyone else tomorrow when I can withdraw from the Stripe pot again.
I also plan to update the site with the impact reports as we go.
Finally, as we are getting more details from some of the families and the ones we couldn’t contact due to Internet issues on the ground, the current estimate for how much we will need in the immediate future has shot up to $20,000.
So I’ve set the goal to that and we will continue the fundraiser.
Thank you again for your amazing support.
You are making an immediate difference in the lives of our Gaza Verified families.
#GazaVerified #EmergencyAppeal #GazaVerifiedEmergencyAppeal #Gaza #Palestine #fediAid
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