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Hi everyone, I’m just filing our impact report for the third day of the Gaza Verified Emergency Appeal.

After being able to instantly withdraw the maximum €7,500 on the first and second days, today I was able to withdraw the remaining €2,516.33 (initially €1,915.54 this morning and then, as more donations came in, another €600.79). Wise converted that to $3,561.96. So that’s what we had to work with.

Here’s how we distributed it:

• @bilal_mo: The remaining $1,500 he needs to get his family to the South (total donated: $3,000).

• @ghassangaza: The remaining $800 she needs to avoid being evicted after borrowing $2,000 from a lender for a tent (total donated: $2000)

• @mohshbair: First installment of $1,000 on the $3,000 he needs to move South so he can start making preparations.

In total, to date, we have distributed $19335.51.

The only costs we have are currency conversions which we get hit by when the money comes in in EUR to Stripe so we can instantly withdraw it and, again, when converting it to USD in Wise before making the payments so we can keep our accounting straight as all numbers are communicated to us in USD. We also paid ~$35.51 in PayPal fees for one payment.

(Of course the folks in Gaza are scalped 40% commission – I will not swear, I will not swear… – when withdrawing their money but we ask them to factor that into the amounts they need.)

Right now have drained the main donations EUR account on Stripe. There is €24.16 in there. There is also a USD account in Stripe that I created thinking we would save on currency conversion fees but realised quickly that I couldn’t instantly withdraw from that like I can with our EUR account (Stripe rule about it only working with the primary currency or something). Anyway, by the time I disabled that account, it had already accrued $455.50 in donations. Stripe tells me that will be transferred to us by Thursday (25th).

Beyond that we have $256.55 left in the USD account in Wise.

We also temporarily used €850 of the foundation’s money to make the payment to Salem yesterday as the Dutch fundraiser site didn’t accept dollars. I was going to take that our of today’s donations but I will wait until there is more money in the account as I wanted us to be able to reach as many people as possible again today.

We were also able to reach @reem_osama via @Sakhergaza13, her fiancé. She needs $3,000 to move South so we’ve added on to the remaining amounts and it looks like we still need $7,600 to get all the current families home. (We are helping 14 families with the move at the moment, not just the original 8, as we weren’t able to get in touch with everyone at the start and I still haven’t had time from everything else to update the site properly with the new information).

And, we are expecting a bank transfer for £5,000 to arrive soon. That’s roughly $6,750. That will go a long way towards covering the remaining expenses but I don’t know when it will arrive exactly (it’s an international transfer).

So I’ve just raised our goal to $30,000 and I hope you will continue to share the campaign and to support us so we can get our remaining families to the finishing line.

Finally, there are a number of people from Gaza waiting for @joynewacc and me to schedule verification video chats with them. I’m sorry to keep you waiting, I’ve been busy with this and related tasks. I will get to that next.

As always, thank you for your support.

None of this would be possible without you.

Sending you all lots of love.

💕

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