“To be, or not to be? That is the question...”
I have a hard time turning people down when they send me an ask about evacuation funds. However, I do make sure to tag whether the post has been vetted or not. I don’t want to promote scams, but I also don’t want to potentially turn down someone in need when the only way I can really help is by giving the post more traction.
As a rule of thumb, don't reblog donation posts or people asking for donations unless they've been vetted and reblogged by Palestinian bloggers. We usually go to lengths to verify this shit because we know scammers have been faking to get people to send them money, using the urgency of our genocide as bait.
It's disgusting this is what we're dealing with, but people are losing money because of some truly evil people out there.
Accounts don't just randomly spring up on tumblr without gofundmes while asking for someone to help them create a campaign. Fuck out of here with that shit.
Hello, my friend. I hope this message finds you well. 🙏
I'm Ola, a graduate student from the Faculty of Science at Al-Azhar University . I'm a dedicated and passionate student, striving to become a good researcher and teacher.
Unexpectedly, my life took a drastic turn transforming me from a passionate student into a person struggling for survival. 🥺
My family is in a perilous situation due to the harsh conditions and the famine we have endured for 11 months. We are facing immense challenges, So I have created a campaign to help me and my family rebuild our lives and meet our basic needs for food, drink, and other essentials in these harsh conditions. This will also help me continue my education. At this critical moment, I implore you to share my campaign with your network, both offline and on social media platforms. Your advocacy is vital to our success.
All I am asking for is your support. Every simple thing makes a difference in changing the situation we are in. You can help us either by giving direct support to our campaign or simply by sharing/reblogging the pinned post on my page and/or writing a post about my campaign. This would greatly help us reach more potential donors, and I would be very grateful if you could share the campaign link with your friends and family via email or other social media platforms. ❤️
I sincerely hope you can empathize with our dire situation and consider supporting us. Please be assured that any help brings us closer to our goal, and no matter how small your donation might be, it will make a significant difference in my family's lives.
I would appreciate it if you could follow me to stay updated, as I will always need your help. 💔
This is my GFM link:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-olas-pursuit-of-education-amid-crisis?qid=30ec4c502382b9962b96d698a687d9a8
My campaign has been verified by @/90-ghost, @/northgazaupdates, @/el-shab-Hussien, and @/nabulsi's vetted list (line 205).
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1yYkNp5U3ANwILl2MknJi9G7ArY4uVTEEQ1CVfzR8Ioo/htmlview#gid=0
Thank you in advance for your kindness and support. I am waiting for your response. ❤️
Please donate and/or share with others. 🥺🙏
Sincerely,
Ola
Hello my friends,,,
I am writing my letter, full of sorrow and suffering, to you, people of compassionate hearts, hearts full of compassion. ❤
Your help is what will make us hope for a new life, Some of the cents will fill my heart and the hearts of my children with optimism. 💁♂️💁♂️
Your participation in my painful campaign will help me spread my voice to the world and call out loudly, “Help us, help us, please.”
My children desperately need your support, Please bring happiness to the hearts of my children... 🙏🙏
I hope you will watch my campaign and support me, thank you very much from my heart...
🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸❤❤🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
https://gofund.me/07f652e2
This fundraiser has not been vetted yet, but GoFundMe protects donations.
HelloI hope you are wellIm mona from gaza I need your help. I hope you can help me .Here is a link to a post for my family's fundraiser.https://www.tumblr.com/mohammedshehabtt/761945679991062528?source=shareDonate and share the link with your friends and followers.Every donation and participation brings us closer to safety.Thank you❤❤
This fundraiser has not been vetted yet, but GoFundMe protects donations.
Hello ! My supporting friends ,🖤💚💔🤍🍉
Thank you from my heart for what you are doing for the people of Gaza who are in bad need in this tough and dire time. 💔💚🖤🤍
You are examples for kindness, generosity and nobility. You have been standing with for long and showing how brave one should be in time of need. 🍉🍉🍉🍉
You helped me greatly to make progress in my campaign, but I am still in need of your kind support to reach my goal.✌️✌️
As noticed, the campaign is very slow😪😪 now and needs strong move and this can be carried out through your contribution and cooperation. 😯😯
Please don't leave us alone during this dire time. I am still in the first quarter of my campaign. ❣️❣️
https://gofund.me/0dc0aa34
Hello, I am Helen Inshasi from Gaza. I need your help for me and my family. Please do not hesitate and donate to me and my family. I hope you do not ignore my message. Thank you.https://gofund.me/e2cbb108
This fundraiser has not been vetted yet, but GoFundMe protects donations.
Hello dear friends! ❤🤍🖤💚
🍉I am Mahmoud Ayyad, a Palestinian from the besieged and destroyed Gaza 😭😭, coming from an extended family of young children, women and elderly people ❤❤ who have been suffering😭😭 for 300 difficult days from an aggressive war.
Our lives are harsh because we lack all the basic necessities of life. Everything has become scarce and unattainable. There is no food, no water, no medicine.
So, I ask you to help me keep my family safe and alive, especially after we had lost all our sources of livelihood.Please do not leave my family to struggle and suffer these difficult days alone. You can support my campaign by donating whatever you can or by sharing my posts to reach others who can help us survive the war to safety and peace. You are helping the lives of many people with your small contribution. Every donation makes a difference in our very difficult lives. But this is a legitimate campaign and has been checked by 90-ghost.
https://gofund.me/31c5cbe3
Just a warning, I’m about to go on a bit of a rant…
I’m honestly so sick of getting excited over new followers/likes only for it to be bots. It’s even worse when the profile has a stolen picture from some poor, random girl’s Instagram and the account posts graphic stuff. Like, the person whose picture you used didn’t consent to have their image attached to adult content, and I didn’t consent to being exposed to it, either. I know some people won’t get it, but suddenly being shown stuff like that can be triggering for some trauma victims. All social media platforms have problems with spam and bots, but in my experience Tumblr is exponentially worse. It’s especially disheartening as a tiny blog. Half of my likes at this point are probably from spam. I wish there was at least a way to block the accounts without having to view their pages.
PSA to anyone else that receives an ask from this account. If this turns out to be a stolen story, it’s horribly disgusting and immoral to try and profit off of someone else’s suffering.
award-winning palestinian children's illustrator baraa Alnajjar writes:
ما جدوى ان تكون رسام كتاب أطفال في عالم يحكم على أطفال بلدك بالإعدام، بالموت، بالفناء، بالإبادة !!
"what use is it to be an illustrator of children's books when the world has sentenced the children of your country to the death penalty, to vanish, to genocide?
"some of baraa's illustrations
this is an illustration for youssef, whose mother is remembered running desperately into the hospital asking if anyone had seen a "small white boy with beautiful curly hair, his name is youssef," a description which was remembered by millions when she finally identified his body:
this illustration is for young omar, who was hugging his little brother and teaching him how to repeat the shahada after him (a prayer spoken by muslims before their death) as he lay on his hospital bed:
"we want a new year that doesn't kill us or our children, we want it a year without blood, without screaming, without pain, we want a new attempt to get our lives back, or something that resembled our life, even if life is a lie we still cling to it, return life to us—a new year's card unlike any other year:"
Baraa is currently raising money to get her family of 12 out of Gaza. This is a reputable fundraiser, so please donate if you can. The Egyptian government currently charges over $5,000 per person to get into Cairo through the Rafah crossing:
https://gofund.me/0342709c
https://gofund.me/013cfc7f
[٣٠/٩, ٢:٠٦ م] Noor: Hello, I am Nour El-Din from Gaza, I am 22 years old, I am studying software engineering, I am in dire need of you and your humanity to help my sister get treatment abroad, our house was bombed over our heads and my sister was martyred and the rest were injured, and there is a serious injury to my sister's right hand and back, no matter how small the donation is, it will save my sister from the condition of amputating her hand and paralysis, humanity is our last hope, donate and share my story to help me and my family get treatment abroad, the campaign link is in the bio. https://gofund.me/8e074392
[١٢/١٠, ١٢:٠١ م] Noor: ***Vetted by @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #150 )
***Vetted by @dlxxv-vetted-donations
Hello, I am Nour El-Din from Gaza, I am 22 years old, I am studying software engineering, I am in dire need of you and your humanity to help my sister get treatment abroad, our house was bombed over our heads and my sister was martyred and the rest were injured, and there is a serious injury to my sister's right hand and back, no matter how small the donation is, it will save my sister from the condition of amputating her hand and paralysis, humanity is our last hope, donate and share my story to help me and my family get treatment abroad, the campaign link is in the bio. https://gofund.me/8e074392