🥳 Wow! I wake up and what do I see: We’ve shot past our goal!
As I was sleeping you all managed to get the amount we’ve raised for our families still stuck in the North to $16,095
I have no words: Thank you all so, so much for your support!
I was able to withdraw the equivalent of €7,500 ($8,768.79) of that amount instantly from Stripe today (and can apparently withdraw that much per day from our Stripe account via their instant payments) so we will transfer that amounts to the families most in need today and continue distributing the funds tomorrow.
I’m going to keep the fundraiser running for the moment and we will distribute any additional funds raised to help the other Gaza Verified families, including a couple that were offline and so couldn’t respond to us in time for this campaign who we learned last night are still stuck in the North.
I promised everyone in our Signal group last night that we will leave no family behind and I intend to keep that promise to them.
I’m going to go coordinate with @joynewacc@mastodon.social now so we can start payouts and I’ll update you about the status of our families as we go.
Please do keep sharing the campaign so we have as much in the pot as possible to work with.
Thank you all again – you’re doing the fediverse and humanity proud.
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