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Someone from Palestine reached out to me for help. I’m unable to donate so I’m spreading his message. Free Rafah🍉
hi if it’s okay i saw you were boosting fundraisers for Gaza and wanted to check if you’d be willing to boost this spreadsheet put together by Jenan Matari on IG. i made this post just cause she’s on IG and while she’s got a huge following there i kno some ppl just dont use certain platforms and wanted to spread it around here since its a huge list of folks in need for various reasons. i dont have a big following myself but still wanted to try. i understand its not just one person so any vetting is more difficult to do so understandable if you dont want to spread it around tho: https://www.tumblr.com/nonbinarymerbabe/741436918492987392/jenanmatari-posted-this-on-ig-she-and-a-friend
Here's the list:
Kareem Abu Samra: Legitimate fundraiser. Link. (43k out of 77k needed in USD)
Natasha Matar. Unsure, tried to contact the person in charge, the message bounced. Check if Jenan Matari herself has verified it or posted about it. Link.
Haya Hijazi: Legitimate fundraiser. Link. (108k out of 120k needed in Euros)
Amer Qudaih: Legitimate fundraiser. Link. (5k out of 10k needed in USD)
Rashida Alfaoimy: I think legitimate fundraiser. Link. (12k out of 85k needed in USD)
Ula El Hindi: This one's already verified by GoFundMe since it is being organized and sponsored by a verified NGO. Link. (4k out of 15k needed in Euros)
Muhammad Safi: Legitimate fundraiser. Link. (2k out of 30k needed in British pounds)
Yazan Khalaf: Legitimate fundraiser. Link. (3k out of 50k needed in USD.)
Afaf Masoud: Legitimate fundraiser. Link. (14k out of 40k needed in Euros)
Islam Daher: Not enough info to verify. Doesn't look like a scam. Link.
Qasim Alkafarneh: Not enough info to verify. Doesn't look like a scam. Link.
Motasem Khayal: Not enough info to verify. Doesn't look like a scam. Link.
Mohammed Abu Malan: I think legitimate fundraiser. Link. (1k out of 26k needed in Euros.)
Ahmed Saleh: I think legitimate fundraiser. Link. (5k out of 50k needed in Euros)
Salwa Zarifa: Not enough info to verify. Doesn't look like a scam. Link.
Al Ghandour family: Legitimate fundraiser. Link. (27k out of 100k needed in USD)
Motasem Quffa: Legitimate fundraiser. Link. (4k out of 10k needed in Euros)
Adel Al-Zaharna: Legitimate fundraiser. Link. (goal reached, likely still needs sustained support for survival until they can exist)
Mahmoud Al-Gharabli: Legitimate fundraiser. Link. (29k out of 57k needed in USD)
In conclusion, most of these are legit, and none of these are verifiably scams. The ones that I haven't been able to verify can still very well be legit.
For all those who want to check the rest themselves, here's the list.
If you're going to contact any of the representatives of the fundraisers that I couldn't verify, PLEASE BE RESPECTFUL. You never know what's happening with their friends or family. I'm not an ultimate authority on this either, this is just what I can tell to the best of my ability.
We have been through many wars before, but this war was not like the ones before it. Our lives were turned upside down. We became displaced from one place to another. We are the Anas family, residents of northern Gaza, specifically in the Shujaiya area. In the first week of the war, we fled our home because everyone considered our home to be in a dangerous area. We moved to the Rimal area, specifically in the middle of Gaza. There, we received the news that our home, which contained all our beautiful memories, was bombed. Suddenly, it was gone!!! Just thinking that your home, which you worked hard on and built from scratch and took a lot of your life, was gone in less than a second ! After a while, we left the sands to the Al-Zawaida area because of the heavy shelling. We stayed there for about two weeks, and then the terrorist army asked us to go to Rafah. We actually fled for the fourth time to Rafah and stayed there for two months, some of the most difficult days of our lives, as there was no way or means to live a normal life. 😔😔 After that, because of the invasion of Rafah, we moved to Deir al-Balah. Now, we are in very difficult and oppressive circumstances.
I love this stupid show sm
i've shared amal's gofundme (@amalashuor) several times, but i just received messages from her that broke my heart
amal is a 26 year old mother from gaza. she is an incredibly dedicated and loving mother to her year old daughter, maryam. before the war, she was studying to receive her masters degree in french language. on her instagram (@/amal_sufian97_) she shared beautiful photos of her life and family in the years before the war.
now amal, her husband, and maryam have been displaced several times and have nowhere to turn to. amal wishes to finish her degree, and both she and her husband want nothing more than a better life for their young daughter. every time i receive a message from amal, my heart is full knowing she is still alive, but it breaks for her suffering. i implore you, please donate any amount you're able to help amal and her family escape gaza. they deserve nothing less than safety, warmth, love, laughter, security, and life. as of july 6th, €1,025 / €30,000 has been raised. her campaign is also included on el-shab-hussein and nabulsi's spreadsheet of verified fundraiser (#175). if you're unable to donate, please share. i want nothing more than to give amal hope that she can provide a better life for her daughter.
Dino Babies. I am hyperfixated right now on old obscure cartoons and right now my brain is shouting "DINO BABIES. HEY YOU REMEMBER THAT SHOW. DO YOU LOT ALL REMEMBER """DINO BABIES?""" IF YOU DO NOT I HAD BETTER TELL YOU ALL ABOUT IT. BECAUSE WHATEVER ELSE HAVE YOU GOT TO DO?? PLAN FOR A WEDDING? PAY THE BILLS, FIND A NEW JOB?
PbffFt.
😃DINO BABIES!!!😃
While this was just another obvious Rugrats/Muppet Babies rip-off, for what it's worth, this show was HUGE to me and my baby sister. We played pretend more so as these guys than their better well known far more original predecessors yet even other kids during the 90s didn't much care about this show. It's too bad they lacked merch at least in the US cos if they had any I would have bought it all. I dunno why this mediocre cartoon was so big a deal but I guess we can chalk it up to us simply being into all things dinosaur across the board.
Overall the writing was neither amazing nor terrible, just average for a wholesome kids show, but the entire thing's appeal hinged around one tiny aspect:
This guy! ...LOOK at this guy! Such a cute lil bastard! He's PRECIOUS! ❤️He's gonna go cruelly concuss some little children with coconuts just for fun from high above, FOR NO REASON, yes he is, YETH HE IIIZ! 😘
This red eyed fiend was called Dak, who was the only antagonist ever on the show, and basically a male Angelica; constantly teasing and pulling tricks purely to get food he could already more easily reach and hoard, or just giggle over suffering. He played things like witches and vampires/ other villains in any retelling of fairy tales and I found him so cool cos pterosaurs were almost always among my favorite dinos, but they didn't quite as often show up. 99% of the time, at least in media up til this point, any evil/mischievous dino, even ones that were not feral just 'playground bullies' or 'rude neighbor' sort of guys, the species chosen for such was always a velociraptor or T-rex, usually portrayed as big, slovenly dumb and older brash teenagers or stupid adult stereotypes.
Sometimes you'd get fictional non-descript looking Bowsers or kaijus. Pterosaurs and pterodactyls meanwhile always got the shaft. You had that one segment of Fantasia, and Don Bluth's Petri, and that was it. Subconsciously even to this day it seems we still have relegated nearly ALL flying dinos to only cowardly sidekicks or filler roles, if not simply outright mindless mounts or 'birds' or five second 'sentient Flintstone-tool' gags. Which is crazy, because if we read up on them, these beasts were literal some of the top apex predators, *nightmare dragons* with private plane wingspan at their mightiest worst, the nastiest and shittiest of cassowary or Canada geese at the lowest end. Which is quite possibly lots worse for us humans to deal with if you dwell on it. Have you ever fucked around with angry swan or Canadian goose? Do NOT TRY.
Dak meanwhile, was not only a pterosaur, he wasn't even any bigger or older than the other babies on the show. He was cunning, mean and extremely agile and literally had the exact same personality and voice of a tamed Zorak from "Space Ghost Coast2Coast"...which is hilarious because nobody else in the show sounds like that. Can you imagine having a friend group like this, I mean in actual real life?...Everyone else has your typical 90's child voice, or at least voices attempting at sounding *kinda* like a child, and everyone else has fairly normal human names like Franklin and Marshall. ...All except this one weird guy who is only called DAK and is clearly AN ADULT and screeching like he was the unholy spawn between Mrs. Bighead and one of the Dark Crystal's Skeksis. You got for no reason this one crackhead or irl Invader Zim character hanging around and constantly harassing you and you can't make him go away so you begrudgingly accept him as your friend AND HE CAN FLY.
...Maybe it's just me? There's just something really kinda funny about having a bunch of normal kids standing around, and then there is THAT guy; the one guy who for no reason hangs out just to be a pest and has fucking bloodshot red eyes, and speaks like Gollum except he eats cigarette butts from the trash cans every day. I can't explain, I just... love it.
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