You may have seen my previous post [here] where I lament about daily donation decreases while getting large amounts of reblogs.
I still update Falastin’s campaign daily, hanging on every donation. The trend of notes far outweighing donations has not only continued - it is getting worse. Despite Falastin’s campaign being vetted both here on tumblr and on Instagram, Instagram nets no donations, and Tumblr nets so few in spite of the campaign receiving constant updates and attention.
In the last 24 hours she received only 55 dollars. This campaign needs to provide for 24 people - the rate donations are currently coming in is far below the necessary minimum for their survival. Prices in Gaza are astronomically high, but even if they were similar to prices in the US, and even if we take a better day like yesterday, $200 in donations - approximately $8.33 per family member - would not be enough to survive on. Would YOU be able to survive on that money? This must buy food, water, medicine, and all other supplies, including tents. Half of the family is currently sleeping on the street, and what little shelter they have access to will not keep winter off their backs.
They have been displaced more than twenty times. With each displacement, they lose a great deal, because the time they have to evacuate is not enough for them to pack up their belongings. This is only getting worse for them. Meanwhile, people who have the luxury of turning away seem to do so more and more. Falastin doesn’t have that luxury - these are her loved ones in danger. So many of her family members have been martyred already. She cannot lose anyone else.
You stand at a point in history, and in many years you will look back on yourself now and see either action or inaction. You know which one you will regret more. This is why people are angry at those posts, why they scream of scams - because it’s much better for your consciousness to have excuses for inaction.
An action does not need to be some grand noticeable gesture - small actions are just as meaningful, if done at a pace that allows them to add up. If you act alongside everyone, they may add up still more.
Please don’t just reblog this. Find some other small way that you can help, and take that action. Maybe send this campaign to a friend or a family member, or link it in a groupchat. Even if you can’t personally donate, there’s a chance that someone you know would like to.
Please check today’s rates before donating:
- 10$ = 102 SEK
- 25$ = 257 SEK
- 50$ = 514 SEK
- 100$ = 1,029 SEK
Donate to Help Falastin’s Family Survive & Escape the Genocide in Gaza, organized by Falastin Iwais
Vetting info: #282 in El-Shab-Hussein and Nabulsi’s spreadsheet [here], #957 in the Butterfly Project spreadsheet [here]
Falastin’s account: [link]
Falastin received the news she feared this morning. One of her cousins was killed in Jabalia. Apparently it wasn’t enough for IOF to kill his wife and son in the beginning of the genocide so they went ahead - why not, no one is stopping them from killing or raping anyone they want.
He has (or had) two children who are now orphaned. They are now in Jabalia which is extremely dangerous but we are not sure if they even can move from there to Alnawasy… And her family needs all the help they can get.
This campaign again is stagnating, 9 hours since the last donation. Please, donate. Please, boost. They need to get out of this hell. They can’t without your help.
$8,800 / $9,000 USD - only kr2,080 SEK / $200 USD left to reach the short term goal. no donations for the past 2 hours, only 9 donations in the past 12 hours!
tagging some people for reach: