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Hi everyone, a quick impact report to you at the end of the first 24 hours of our Gaza Verified Emergency Appeal:
https://gaza-verified.org/emergency/
We’ve raised: $16,975 out of our original goal of $15,000.
Today, I was able to do an instant withdrawal of €7,500 of that ($8,768.79) from Stripe.
This morning, @joynewacc@mastodon.social and I had the difficult task of prioritising today’s payouts from that amount. Our criteria were:
• Who’s most at risk (e.g., in Al-Shifa camp, etc.)?
• How can we help the largest number of our families with what we have on hand today?
As such, I’ve just completed payments to six of our families:
• @baraaelmoghrabi@mastodon.social: $2,000 (she in one of the most dangerous places (al-Shifa camp) and this will allow her to move South tomorrow. She will not have enough to rent a tent yet but she said they could stay in a school until we can get the rest of the money to her, which we will as soon as possible.
• @mittal@toot.community: $2,000 to get a tent in the South (they are homeless right now).
• @shathamohammed123@mastodon.social: $1,200 to move to the South.
• @doaagaza@mastodon.social: $1,500 to move to the South.
• @bilal_mo@mas.to: $1,500 to move his family to the South. He still needs $1,500 for a tent but he can house them with relatives for three days. We will get him the rest in time.
• @ghassangaza@kolektiva.social: $1,200 as she is about to be evicted. She borrowed $2,000 from a lender for a tent. We were able to negotiate with the lender. He will accept $1,200 and the remaining $800 later.
That brings the total we distributed today to $9,400. I covered the difference (~$630) temporarily from our account since time is of the essence.
We will get to everyone else tomorrow when I can withdraw from the Stripe pot again.
I also plan to update the site with the impact reports as we go.
Finally, as we are getting more details from some of the families and the ones we couldn’t contact due to Internet issues on the ground, the current estimate for how much we will need in the immediate future has shot up to $20,000.
So I’ve set the goal to that and we will continue the fundraiser.
Thank you again for your amazing support.
You are making an immediate difference in the lives of our Gaza Verified families.
💕
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Aral Balkan
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