๐ต๐ธ Hello friends ๐ต๐ธ
I am Maram Nabulsi from Gaza, a 18-year-old girl. My home in Khan Younis was destroyed, and I found myself and my family living in a camp for displaced people in Mawasi Khan Younis, under the scorching sun, inside a tent swaying in the wind. ๐ต๐ธ
Every day is a new battle. I was deprived of studying for my last year in school๐๐ฉโ๐ and graduating from it, my dream of joining the human medicine ๐ฅ๐ฉบspecialization was taken away from me, my hopes and dreams have faded since the outbreak of these damned events on October 7. ๐ต๐ธ
I feel as if the world has abandoned me, and no one cares. In our small tent, we are under physical and emotional siege. Every night I reach my hands to the sky, and ask God to give me the strength to overcome this nightmare, I need your help to save my life and complete my dream abroad ๐๐ต๐ธ
Please donate +30$ to save my lifeโฅ๏ธ๐ฟ
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AM DONE
Also this has definitely happened multiple times
Thank you for your continued support of the Palestinian cause and Gaza. We are living in extremely difficult conditions, but with your solidarity, we can move forward toward hope and freedom. Here, we will share our stories and challenges, and we look forward to building a strong community that supports each other during these tough times.
Together, we can make a difference. Thank you again for all your support.๐๐๐
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I assigned a writing prompt a few weeks ago that asked my students to reflect on a time when someone believed in them or when they believed in someone else. One of my students began to panic.
โI have to ask Google the prompt to get some ideas if I canโt just use AI,โ she pleaded and then began typing into the search box on her screen, โA time when someone believed in you.โ
โItโs about you,โ I told her. โYouโve got your life experiences inside of your own mind.โ It hadnโt occurred to her โ even with my gentle reminder โ to look within her own imagination to generate ideas. One of the reasons why I assigned the prompt is because learning to think for herself now, in high school, will help her build confidence and think through more complicated problems as she gets older โ even when sheโs no longer in a classroom situation.
Sheโs only in ninth grade, yet sheโs already become accustomed to outsourcing her own mind to digital technologies, and it frightens me.
When I teach students how to write, Iโm also teaching them how to think. Through fits and starts (a process that can be both frustrating and rewarding), high school English teachers like me help students get to know themselves better when they use language to figure out what they think and how they feel.
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If you believe, as I do, that writing is thinking โ and thinking is everything โ things arenโt looking too good for our students or for the educators trying to teach them. In addition to teaching high school, Iโm also a college instructor, and I see this behavior in my older students as well.
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This! This is what scares me the most about AI! Physical exertion is difficult if someone isn't used to it, and it gets easier the more often it's done. When it's done often enough, it becomes a habit. Mental exertion is exactly the same. Thinking is a learned skill just like a sport is, and an entire generation is growing up without that most critical skill.
An unthinking populace is a more easily controlled populace.
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I am taking care of my 8 year old sister. I don't want to lose her again in the foster system. Due to her parents being in jail and doing drugs. I really need help keeping her housed and making I have transportation for her. I have the rest of this month to come up with the rent out I will be kicked out. I need help getting car parts as well. please if you have anything to spare please donate. please do it for my little sister. I'm mentally drained by how stress i am. I don't think i can afford rent in July either. Seems like i can't catch a break.
Goal:1500/1550 month of june
goal: 0/950 rent for July due on the 15th.
electric bill for the month of July due on the 5th 0/250
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No words can describe the suffering we endure here in Gaza. Life no longer feels like life. Today, with the border crossings closed once again and humanitarian aid halted, our suffering has doubled. Even the most basic necessities have become an unattainable luxury.Like thousands of other families, my family struggles to survive in this nightmare. We live among the rubble, carrying water from long distances because our infrastructure has been destroyed. Prices have skyrocketed, making food and medicine nearly impossible to afford.
Every day is a new battle, and every moment without food, medicine, or hope adds to our pain. We ask for nothing but the right to live, the right to safety, and the right to find someone who will stand with us in this darkness.To everyone who can help, to every heart that beats with compassion my family needs you. Every contribution, no matter how small, could mean the difference between life and death. Please, donโt leave us alone in this suffering.
WAIT HOLY SHIT DRAGON PRINCE IS GETTING A NEW SEASON?!?
ok last thing. but what people fundamentally need to get through their heads is the significance of gaza fundraisers not being the same as like mutual aid when you're helping someone get groceries, because it is a genocide. there is insane deliberate scarcity and prices are unmanageable, because there is nowhere nearly enough for everyone, so only people who can pay can eat. and what positioning individual fundraisers as the only course of action does is quite simply give a tiny percentage of random people whose fundraisers take off the ability to pay those prices while thousands of others can't. and every one of those thousands of people without a fundraiser is suffering through the same inconceivably horrific reality. it is giving a few completely desperate people out of hundreds of thousands a slightly more favorable position in a horrific war economy of imposed scarcity. and what grassroots community kitchens do is try to mitigate in some small way that inconceivable hierarchy of who can pay and who can't, by stretching ingredients as far as they can last to cook meals at large scale and give them out at no cost. and obviously people are still going to send money to their friends and families because this is hell what else are we supposed to do but please just think about that before promoting endless individual fundraisers as somehow the most ethical way to help
โ๐๐ฆ๐ค๐ข๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ, ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด.โ
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