I write this message as my heart and body freeze from the unbearable cold. I swear to you, I am trembling with every part of me, feeling the cold coursing through my veins, almost stopping my heart. Please, don’t let my story fade into silence; don’t stop sharing it. I beg you with all I have, keep my voice alive, for I fear my screams will become mere whispers lost in the void. I implore you, help me, for the night is long, the cold is merciless, and I am living moments where despair intertwines with pain.
The tent was completely flooded, and the water reached my children while they were asleep, soaking their mattress and waking them up cold and sick. Seeing them shivering from the cold and illness carved an indescribable pain into my heart.
Anything you have to give, please give it to my friend Mohammed and his family. No one should have to suffer like this.
This is how I live in the most difficult days of my life. I beg you to share my story.
its january 1! remember that mohammed needs to leave in a couple of days for treatment. please donate as much as you can!!
At first glance, artist Stefan Kürten’s paintings are about Modernist architecture. But the Düsseldorf-based painter sees something more in the houses he conceives on canvas, delving deeper into what the home means beyond a roof over our heads. “For me they are also a retreat, a place of memories and dreams, a place to reflect and to look forward,” says the artist […] “They are about an artificial, ‘perfect’ world—one that is unattainable.”
My sister & I are working to help Bakr, a child who evacuated from Gaza to Egypt earlier this year. He needs to get life-saving surgery for brain cancer.
🌸 The family needs $4,000 by December 8th to get the surgery booked.
🌸 To help, we are matching the next $500. I’ve started us off if you can match my €23.
🌸 Send a receipt of €10 or more to contact@divyampersaud.com and I’ll send you my illustrated poetry chapbook about the geology of Palestine, a fruit is a stone.
We can do this! Even the smallest amount will help so much.
Any donation more than $10, you can pick something out in my shop where everything is free with a donation receipt. Go through the form and select “Bakr”: tiny.cc/DivyaShop
Hi. It seems so many campaigns have been stagnating. If you haven’t donated this month and have the means to at all, even by selling art or things you don’t need, please do. Things are desperate. One such family, that of my friend @samah-h , is in deseprate need of support for food and other basic survival items and costs. They are important to me, as family of my dear friend @bilal-salah0 as well. Please consider even donating 5 dollars to their campaign. It has severely stagnated.
what I wish people would understand about fundraising for gaza is that while everyone is desperate and I would never say not to fundraise for or donate to individual families– I currently fundraise to support multiple friends’ families– the overwhelming narrative I see on Tumblr that the best and most ethical thing you can do is send money to individuals and there is no option for anything else is so so incredibly damaging and inadvertently lends support to the marginalization and distrust of any remaining communal social infrastructure. the sameer project, which you should donate to, talks about this in a recent video they put out. the situation in gaza is unimaginable and everyone is in need of a huge level of support, and yet this fundraising discourse by well-meaning people in the west that donating money to individuals is the only moral way reproduces societal divides wherein resources are directed to people who speak English, who have relationships with people outside of gaza, and who have internet access while hundreds of thousands are left behind.
there ARE non-ngo locally based grassroots initiatives working to meet those needs however they can, and your small donation goes a lot further with them because they are able to buy food/water/supplies in bulk at a reduced price and reach more people with less money. again I’m not saying people shouldn’t fundraise for individuals because these initiatives are so limited and many people cannot access them – but as an example, the group I fundraise with is currently serving people fleeing north gaza who are starving and have nothing, and when we fundraise enough to do cash aid distribution there’s so much need that our partners can only distribute 100-200 per large family. and then I go online and see people who have absolutely no understanding of this context at all exclusively working towards raising tens of thousands for just a few people when evacuations haven’t been possible for months. it’s good to do whatever you can but please consider how this narrative being reproduced among westerners trying to help that there are no other options has the potential to damage groups working towards equity and wider reach however is still possible
