I appeal to you with a broken mother’s heart and a grieving father’s heart. 💔

After my previous fundraising link was suspended, we lost most of the donations we desperately needed, and our debts have continued to grow.

I created a new fundraiser to help us recover what we lost.

If your previous donation was refunded, please consider returning your support through our new campaign. Even a small donation or share can help us. 🇵🇸❤️

https://chuffed.org/project/199772-help-abeer-and-her-children-afford-necessities?pdm=url_copy

#Gaza #Palestine #GenocideInGaza #FinancialHelp #HelpGaza

Before the war my dream was simple

I wanted to continue my education build a future and one day be able to support my parents my brother and my sister

Like millions of young people around the world I believed that with hard work determination and education I could build a better life

Then the war came and everything changed

For nearly three years my family and I have been living in a displacement camp

Every day has become a struggle just to survive

The summer heat inside our tent is unbearable

During the day the tent becomes like an oven making it difficult to sleep rest or even breathe comfortably

One of the hardest parts of our daily life is getting water

We walk long distances carrying heavy buckets because clean water is extremely difficult to find

Every liter matters

We never know whether we will have enough water for drinking cooking or washing

Food has also become a daily struggle

Many days we survive on the simplest meals because basic food has become difficult to find and far too expensive

Life has become a constant search for things that most people consider basic necessities

The war has also affected our health deeply

Medical care is extremely limited

Medicines are often unavailable and even simple illnesses can become frightening when treatment is difficult or impossible to find

After years of uncertainty our family is exhausted both physically and emotionally

But despite everything I still refuse to give up

I have been nominated for admission in Cairo so that I can continue my education

I have also received an acceptance from the University of Glasgow

For me this is more than an academic opportunity

It is a dream I have carried for years

A dream to study in Europe gain knowledge build a career and one day return that opportunity to my family by creating a better future for them

Unfortunately these opportunities require financial resources that my family simply cannot afford after everything we have lost

The tuition fees at the University of Glasgow are £33000

This amount is far beyond anything I could possibly afford under the circumstances my family and I are living through

In addition I need approximately €7500 to cover my entry fees in Cairo study materials and the essential expenses required to begin my education again

I am not asking for a luxury life

I am asking for a chance

A chance to study

A chance to rebuild my life

A chance to support my parents after everything they have endured

A chance to give my younger brother and sister hope that our future can still be different

To every compassionate person who has taken the time to read my story

You may be the reason I get another chance at life

To the people of Europe and the Western world who have shown kindness to countless families facing unimaginable circumstances

Today I humbly ask you to stand with my family as well

Every donation no matter how small can bring us one step closer to education stability and dignity

And if you are unable to donate please consider sharing my story

One share could help my story reach someone who can make a difference

If you would like to support my family and help me continue my education you can donate here

https://gofund.me/04ceb0494

Thank you for taking the time to read my story

From my father my mother my brother my sister and from me

Thank you for giving us hope when hope feels so far away

With gratitude

Soliman

Search this community for #BringSoraHome to see all related posts.

Please read and sign our petition:
https://www.change.org/BringSoraHome

Good news on the petition, it has passed 100 signatures. That's not a lot, not nearly enough to get the people in power to take it seriously, but it's a good milestone to reach, and hopefully it's just the beginning. If you have not yet signed the petition, that is another great way you can help us. Please do that, and share it with everyone you know. It doesn't take a lot of time, and it doesn't cost anything. Thank you greatly for your help in that respect.

Not a lot has changed, but I am doing a lot of work and finally communicating with people who actually have the power to do something about this situation. But I cannot move forward with the legal appeal because I don't have enough money.

My previous request still stands. I cannot move forward unless I have the money I need to notarize and submit the court documents necessary to request (just request) an appeal on our case. Quoted from previous post:

Because I got more than I expected last time, and ended up just barely having enough to cover the cost of everything, I'm guessing I'll need €350 to €450 in the next few days. If anyone can help out with that, please and thank you. And if you can't, please show this post to anyone who might be able to help.

Thank you to anyone who can help, please share everything related to this with everyone so Sora can return home and get the help he needs.

Direct PayPal link:
https://www.paypal.me/TheGreenMelon

GoGetFunding link (for sharing outside of Lemmy):
https://www.gogetfunding.com/BringSoraHome/

My Mastodon account:
https://mastodon.social/@aeronmelon

My Bluesky acocunt:
https://bsky.app/profile/daddymelon.bsky.social

My main Lemmy account:
https://lemmy.world/u/aeronmelon

#BringSoraHome

Hello! Thought I posted this morning, but I think I fell back asleep before I finally made the post. Well, I'm at work now. I need to get back home tonight at minimum, which would be about $25-30. I can technically get back home without any help, but that requires a 5 hour wait for public transit to start running again, along with a 2 mile walk through the absolute sketchiest and scariest part of the city. If anybody has been following my posts for a while, y'all will know I used to deal a lot of drugs, for an area of town to scare me this bad it has to be extreme. Once while making this walk, I got shot at point blank, so I think I've honestly been a little traumatized by that. Definitely a lot more scared to be outside at night

Appreciate y'all as always ♥️ I'm also just going to say this to put it out there, I never necessarily expect help from the people on this site. Appreciate it for sure, but I never expect it. I'm never pissed off that nobody helped on the nights I have to get home on my own, it's not y'all's responsibility. I am being crushed by the bullshit of American capitalism in a particularly vulnerable group(s), but who isn't you know? I know y'all are going through it too, so I really appreciate anything that gets sent. I always try to pay the kindness I recieve on here forward, to both other people on this comm and the people around me locally

Cashapp is $thenewcashtag Venmo is @thenewvenven and PayPal is sh3lf1sh@gmail.com

Three years of war have exhausted us… Three years of living with fear, destruction, and the loss of safety. We no longer ask for a perfect life—we only ask for a chance to live with dignity, provide for our children, and regain some of the safety that was taken from us. Today, your support is not just a donation… it is a lifeline for a family struggling to survive. Support us: https://gofund.me/1d3ea05b6 #Gaza #Palestine #GazaGenocide #HelpGaza #SupportPalestine

im trying to get a prescription filled, it's my estra

if you think you can help, my venmo/paypal is @ktkatte

Please Help Me Support My Four Children 💔🙏

Hello my friends, I desperately need your help and support. I am a mother of four children, raising them on my own without my husband by my side. 💔

Unfortunately, my fundraising campaign link was closed, and I was not able to benefit from the funds. 😭😭

Please, if anyone is able to help me, you can donate through this link. I need every single dollar for my children’s basic needs—food, milk, diapers, and other essential necessities. 🙏❤️

And if anyone receives any of the donated funds from my previous campaign, please, I kindly ask you to return them to me through this new link.

Even a small donation can make a real difference for my children. If you cannot donate, please share this post. Your support means more to us than I can express. 🙏💔

https://chuffed.org/project/199772-help-abeer-and-her-children-afford-necessities?pdm=url_copy

https://chuffed.org/project/150674-support-umm-mohammeds-family-to-rebuild-their-future-and-to-survive-amidst-the-genocide

I've had my mutual aid post up for a week now and only managed to raise £7. I need another £107 by tomorrow or I'll have to cancel my next foot surgery, the infection will spread, I'll be back on the waiting list if I can ever raise the money. If anyone can help via paypal please PM me.

Hello y'all! If anybody has been following my posting in the mega thread, y'all know I'm excited for this paycheck. Had a 24 hour period where I worked 20 hours this check, so having that on my check will be nice as hell.

Anyways, I just gotta get transportation to and from work for the rest of the week, along with some basic hygiene stuff like body soap and laundry soap for my eczema having ass, and having eczema is annoying as fuck when it comes to shopping for soap of any kind.

Venmo is @thenewvenven Cashapp is $thenewcashtag and PayPal is sh3lf1sh@gmail.com

It feels as though the world has forgotten the Palestinians who are still living amid destruction, loss of income, and relentless fear. Behind every damaged home is a family struggling to endure, and behind every silence is a story of pain waiting to be heard. Please don’t let the world’s silence make our suffering invisible. We are still here, and we still need your support.🇵🇸

https://gofund.me/1d3ea05b6

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaCrisis #Humanity #HelpGaza #StandWithPalestine #SupportGaza

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/12721952

Hello everyone,

The Palestinian family that I’m currently helping had faced an extremely unfortunate week, and urgently need all the help that they can get now.

On Wednesday, I received devastating news from Hassan, the head of the family in Belgium, that his wife had miscarried. This has taken a huge toll on them as they had wished for their only child Hayat to have a younger sibling to play with. The cost of surgery and burial is expected to cost around €500. Both me and my friend are able to partially cover the amount, but will still need additional help to cover the full cost (or any unexpected cost increases).

To make matters worse, the IOF shot Hassan’s uncle, Ramzi, just 2 days ago and he is currently in a serious condition. Ramzi is a Palestinian resistance fighter who was released just last year after 15 years of imprisonment and torture by the IOF. It has been confirmed that they had been monitoring his movements for some time and were waiting for the chance to eliminate him.

(Trigger warning: distressing scenes)

spoiler

(https://www.facebook.com/reel/1858358288209592)

As of now, the latest update I had received was that his heart started beating again upon arrival at the hospital. However, should he recover, it is likely that he will lose his sight and sensation of his legs.

This series of events have taken a blow on the entire Aburaida family’s morale. Despite our best efforts to reassure and comfort them, these two tragedies have made them feel hopeless of their present and future. Therefore, if you are financially able to, I urge that you donate to their family fundraiser below to help them tide through these difficult times: https://chuffed.org/project/170572-support-hassan-aburaida-and-his-family-during-ramadan

(If you want to do a direct donation to the family, please DM me)

Every amount matters, no matter how small, and the Aburaida family would be grateful for your generous donations. 🙏

Well, my phone bill is due soon (the 12th). It's $80 even, though I'm asking for $82 to cover any transfer fees, as i don't even have the $1.xx in change to cover that

my phone is obviously, sadly, important for just about every activity that would give me self sustaining income, so I need to keep it on.

venmo/paypal is @ktkatte

i have cashapp, dm me for that if you need to use it

Please Don't Look Away My family is still here in Gaza, trying to get through each day and protect our children with whatever we have left. The hardest part is feeling that our struggle is becoming invisible. Please don’t look away. Your support, even a small donation or a simple share, can help my children and give our family a little relief. 🔗 https://gofund.me/1d3ea05b6 #Gaza #Palestine #SupportGaza #MutualAid #Humanity

Hello all! Looking for help with transportation to and from work, along with a few basics I'll need throughout next week.

One thing I desperately need is Band-Aids. I'm horrible about picking scabs, and I'm covered in large open scabs from bug bites that I keep itching

Another thing I need to grab is a pack of my night time edibles. I live in a legal state, and I do not buy any weed products with mutual aid money unless I specifically state that's what I'm doing. Well, I ran out last night. I started this a few months ago, it's not very expensive but edibles seem to be the only thing that cures my hopeless insomnia. It's about $35 for a 50 pack, and unfortunately the place I go to is no longer stocking the 5 pack of these edibles, otherwise I'd just try to get a small bag to last me until payday. But yeah, look at my mega thread posting history, I would consider the edibles to be purely medicinal, unlike actual plant matter. Smoking regular weed helps with my chronic pain, but it's not a massive difference in my quality of life. The edibles keep my sleep schedule regular, so I'm not running late to work or missing shifts from a lack of sleep or shit like that. And $35 for 50 nights worth of sleep isn't a bad price at all in my opinion. But yeah, not buying anything smokable, I just plan on getting the edibles

Venmo is @thenewvenven PayPal is sh3lf1sh@gmail.com and cashapp is $thenewcashtag I appreciate you all so much♥️

Today I had my one week check up since my last foot surgery and they didn’t manage to clear all the infection. They can offer me an appointment on Friday 11th, one week from now, to do the rest, but I will need to buy more of the bandage packs as this will be dragging on for longer, as well as needing to pay for hospital transport as my landlady is unavailable to drive me that day. Whether I can accept the appointment or not depends on whether I can get the financial help I need to pay for this. They said they will hold the appointment until Tuesday.

I also need help with optical expenses. Once every two years I can have an optician appointment free on the NHS, and the glasses will be free. I recently had this appointment, and they gave me reading glasses which are fine for reading, but the distance glasses they gave me are only good for far distance. This means I can’t see to do anything in between. I can’t even watch TV, and since I’m stuck at home alone pretty much all the time I don’t have anything else to do but watch TV. Unless I can get an extra pair of glasses to see things in between I will have nothing to do all day. But since I’ve already had the appointment and the free glasses I will have to pay for a new appointment and another pair of glasses.

For the foot surgery I need two bandage packs at £44 each, plus £26 for the hospital transport. For the optician it’s £25 for the appointment plus £70 for glasses. So in total I need to raise £209 in total. If anyone can help via paypal please PM me for my paypal email address.

Or if you would rather remain anonymous I could individually buy the items from the bandage packs on amazon, if someone would send me an amazon gift card, to DisabledAceSocialist@hotmail.com

This site takes crypto for amazon gift cards:

https://www.bitrefill.com/gb/en/gift-cards/amazon-uk/

I’ll also add that I am going to need help with food for the foreseeable future so if anyone can help with that, these places sell supermarket gift cards and are totally anonymous:

https://www.bitrefill.com/gb/en/gift-cards/sainsburys-in-store-digital-uk/

https://www.sainsburysgiftcard.co.uk/

The reason I can’t afford to pay for these things myself is I’m still waiting for the rest of my disability benefit backpay, so my overdraft is still maxxed out, and after my rent, rent debt and overdraft interest charges leave my account each month, I am left with only £11 which obviously isn’t enough to buy anything.

https://chuffed.org/project/187807

Please don’t scroll past this. 💔

My family is still struggling to meet our most basic needs, and right now, there is almost no response to our pleas for help.

Even a small donation can make a real difference to my children. If you cannot donate, please share this post so it can reach someone who can.

🙏 Donate or share: https://gofund.me/1d3ea05b6

#Gaza #GazaFamily #HelpGaza #SupportGaza #Humanity #Donate #Share

https://chuffed.org/project/187807

Hello! I have a shift later tonight working, I will be making pizzas for people at a Wu Tang/Bone Thugs show. I picked up the shift as a pretty big fan of both, I love the idea of getting paid to go to a concert I already wanted to go to.

Yeah, I ask for about $100 a week to cover my work transportation and then cover basics for me and my roommate. We're both disabled and getting fucked by living in the Midwest, I'm trying my best to be financially independent, but no matter how much I cut down on my "extra spending" (I've done the math, I spend about $50 a month on stuff that isn't the bare basics. Like I don't even have furniture, my bills are well over half my checks, I fucking hate this country so much

Venmo is @thenewvenven PayPal is sh3lf1sh@gmail.com Cashapp is $thenewcashtag

I always appreciate y'all ♥️

Hello! I added $30 because I picked up a shift. Due to my financial situation around getting to work, I've limited myself on picking up shifts. I'll only pick up if it's a fairly long shift, or if I can get there and back only using the bus. Well, the shift tomorrow breaks both of these rules. However, I picked it up because it's a concert for Wu Tang and Bone Thugs. If you pay attention to my posts outside of this comm, you'll see a lot of older hip hop. This is a concert that I really want to go to that I get paid to go see. To make it more worth it, I'm trying to get the shift for the after party too.

The only concerts I've seen recently have been my girlfriend and her friends, which are great don't get me wrong, but like 80 percent of the time she's playing a song at her house it's the songs from her new album, I even wrote on one of the songs on her new album, so it's just really not the same as going to a concert for music I'm too close to. I live really barebones right now, I just eat beans and rice without much seasoning, I don't have furniture. So I jumped on the opportunity of getting to do something fun at work

Venmo is @thenewvenven Cashapp is $thenewcashtag and PayPal is sh3lf1sh@gmail.com