#help families in need

[michimonie]

Please donate if you can!

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 More people in need from my askbox in a clear and easily readable list.

Mahmoud Jehad - VETTED He was a student studying Information Technology at Gaza University before the war. Now his family is in a dire situation with both his father and brother needing medical treatment. He needs to get him and his family to safety and hopefully finish his degree.

$7,273 / $25,000

Roba Ayyad - VETTED Roba set up this fundraiser to help save his uncle Mohammad and his 5 cousins. There's a severe lack of medical options in Gaza, which contributed to his grandmother's death. His family has been through so much and he wants to make sure that they live in safety, as well as having access to proper medical treatment.

€27,272 / €35,000

Salman Hellis - VETTED For more than 330 days, her and her family of many children, women and elderly people have had to survive through bombings, tragic conditions, and a severe lack of resources. They are in urgent need of medical attention and basic necessities.

€4,544 / €50,000

Hamdi Ayyad - UNVETTED(but donation protected) A 50 year Palestinian who wishes his children and wife safety from certain death. Before the wars they had two daughters, Malak and Dareen. Later on, they were blessed with two sons, Youssef and Yassin. After many displacements, him and his wife are just hoping to get to a better place for his kids to focus on education and live in safety.

€2,857 / €25,000

Waleed Al-Anqar - VETTED Him, his beloved wife, Areej Haniyyeh, and their precious 3-year-old son, Ayman are suffering through constant relocation, lack of basic resources, and a very high monetary cost to get to safety. They are plagued with constant bombings and plenty of diseases, and all they wish is to get to safety.

€1,073 / €20,000

Israa Abu Jazar - UNVETTED(but donation protected) He's 23 years old, married to Nidal, 24, and mother of a one-year-old son named Ahmad. Their home was completely destroyed and now they are currently living in a two-meter-high tent without basic necessities. Every donation will go towards the cost of getting to safety and basic needs.

€215 / €20,000

Fatima Chahin - UNVETTED(but donation protected) She's from Choueifat, Lebanon. Her and her family has lost their home to the war. "We are on the verge of a full-scale war. Life has become terrifying, with no end in sight to the violence." They need money to afford basic necessities during this terrible time.

$0 / $30,000

Safaa Al Khatib - VETTED Her and her family of two children, Wateen(7) and Naya (4), and husband Muhammad Al-Thalateeni are all trying to survive this war. They need to be able to cover basic expenses, necessities, shelter, and education for their children.

€28,841 / €35,000

Mohammed Ayyad - VETTED Him, his wife, and his children has been displaced many times, their home destroyed. They're living in a small tent with no access to clean water. Basic resources are scarce and there are no truly safe places. Every bit helps them get closer to a better situation.

€6,000 / €35,000

Shadi Issa - VETTED He and his wife have three children: Tia (6), Ibrahim (4), and Sand (1). They were forced to flee their home and currently live in a 5x5 meter tent with no protection from the seasons or wildlife. Clean water and resources are hard to get, and diseases are rampant.

kr13,574 SEK / kr200,000 SEK

Etaf Al-Qataa - VETTED A 34 year old wife and a mother of five children. Her family's home was demolished and they're now doing their best to survive a deadly situation. Every donation will help to cover rent, food, education for the kids, medical care, and her husband's project to earn a living.

€5,655 / €100,000

Mohammed Nabulsi - VETTED Him, his wife Heba, and their three children Nour (19), Maram (18), and Mahmoud (13), have all been surviving more than 320 days of destruction, displacement, continuous bombing, and constant fear. All donations will go towards their food, medicines & basic necessities , as well as covering the costs for evacuation.

$1,713 / $101,000

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Please donate if you can!

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[randomsdra2fan]

Hello🤗❤️

I hope you are well🌹

Can you help me get my voice heard

and share my family's story?🙏🏻

Can you Reblog my pinned post from my blog or donate 5$?

By helping to reblog my story, you could

save a family from death and war.🌹

Thank you very much🌸

🕊️❤️🌹🙏🏻

<3

[itzsree]

My dear friends 🫂🇵🇸❤️

Our lives have become difficult and harsh 😭

and donations have become few and do not meet basic needs 💔💔

I hope you will continue to support, whether by participating or donating if possible 🙏

We thank and appreciate your standing with us in these difficult circumstances 🇵🇸💖🇵🇸

Praying for you and all of your loved ones 💞🙏🏾🇵🇸

[batfam-stuff-posts-0]

Bruce: Tim and Damian did what?

Jason: Well, Alfred said they weren't allowed to see Dick because he was still recovering from last night, and the only way they could stay was if they were injured.

Bruce: And?

Jason: So they punched each other in the face and told him they were injured.

Bruce:

Jason

Steph: I gotta admire their dedication

[giantkillerjack]

Today my therapist introduced me to a concept surrounding disability that she called "hLep".

[plain-text version of this post can be found under the cut]

Which is when you - in this case, you are a disabled person - ask someone for help ("I can't drink almond milk so can you get me some whole milk?", or "Please call Donna and ask her to pick up the car for me."), and they say yes, and then they do something that is not what you asked for but is what they think you should have asked for ("I know you said you wanted whole, but I got you skim milk because it's better for you!", "I didn't want to ruin Donna's day by asking her that, so I spent your money on an expensive towing service!") And then if you get annoyed at them for ignoring what you actually asked for - and often it has already happened repeatedly - they get angry because they "were just helping you! You should be grateful!!"

And my therapist pointed out that this is not "help", it's "hLep".

Sure, it looks like help; it kind of sounds like help too; and if it was adjusted just a little bit, it could be help. But it's not help. It's hLep.

At its best, it is patronizing and makes a person feel unvalued and un-listened-to. Always, it reinforces the false idea that disabled people can't be trusted with our own care. And at its worst, it results in disabled people losing our freedom and control over our lives, and also being unable to actually access what we need to survive.

So please, when a disabled person asks you for help on something, don't be a hLeper, be a helper! In other words: they know better than you what they need, and the best way you can honor the trust they've put in you is to believe that!

Also, I want to be very clear that the "getting angry at a disabled person's attempts to point out harmful behavior" part of this makes the whole thing WAY worse. Like it'd be one thing if my roommate bought me some passive-aggressive skim milk, but then they heard what I had to say, and they apologized and did better in the future - our relationship could bounce back from that. But it is very much another thing to have a crying shouting match with someone who is furious at you for saying something they did was ableist. Like, Christ, Jessica, remind me to never ask for your support ever again! You make me feel like if I asked you to call 911, you'd order a pizza because you know I'll feel better once I eat something!!

Edit: crediting my therapist by name with her permission - this term was coined by Nahime Aguirre Mtanous!

Edit again: I made an optional follow-up to this post after seeing the responses. Might help somebody. CW for me frankly talking about how dangerous hLep really is.

Plain-text version:

Today my therapist introduced me to a concept surrounding disability that she called "hLep".

Which is when you - in this case, you are a disabled person - ask someone for help ("I can't drink almond milk so can you get me some whole milk?", or "Please call Donna and ask her to pick up the car for me."), and they say yes, and then they do something that is not what you asked for but is what they think you should have asked for ("I know you said you wanted whole, but I got you skim milk because it's better for you!", "I didn't want to ruin Donna's day by asking her that, so I spent your money on an expensive towing service!") And then if you get annoyed at them for ignoring what you actually asked for - and often it has already happened repeatedly - they get angry because they "were just helping you! You should be grateful!!"

And my therapist pointed out that this is not "help", it's "hLep".

Sure, it looks like help; it kind of sounds like help too; and if it was adjusted just a little bit, it could be help. But it's not help. It's hLep.

At its best, it is patronizing and makes a person feel unvalued and un-listened-to. Always, it reinforces the false idea that disabled people can't be trusted with our own care. And at its worst, it results in disabled people losing our freedom and control over our lives, and also being unable to actually access what we need to survive.

So please, when a disabled person asks you for help on something, don't be a hLeper, be a helper! In other words: they know better than you what they need, and the best way you can honor the trust they've put in you is to believe that!

P.S. Also, I want to be very clear that the "getting angry at a disabled person's attempts to point out harmful behavior" part of this makes the whole thing WAY worse. Like it'd be one thing if my roommate bought me some passive-aggressive skim milk, but then they heard what I had to say, and they apologized and did better in the future - our relationship could bounce back from that. But it is very much another thing to have a crying shouting match with someone who is furious at you for saying something they did was ableist. Like, Christ, Jessica, remind me to never ask for your support ever again! You make me feel like if I asked you to call 911, you'd order a pizza because you know I'll feel better once I eat something!!

Edit: crediting my therapist by name with her permission - this term was coined by Nahime Aguirre Mtanous!

Edit again: I made an optional follow-up to this post after seeing the responses. Might help somebody. CW for me frankly talking about how dangerous hLep really is.

[ulysses000]

All that I can say......

[ruushes]

a friendly little murder 😊🐦‍⬛🖤🗡️ the crows really said you're going to wear purple leather and you're going to like it

[stil-lindigo]

HELP PALESTINIAN ARCHITECT EVACUATE HER FAMILY FROM GAZA

This is a verified fundraiser for a family of four to evacuate to Cairo. The fund's creator, Amal Abu Shammala, reached out to me personally to share this since she's failed to get her fund on Operation Olive Branch and Let's Talk Palestine's fundraising linktree.

As of right now, she has raised €2,397/ €42,000. You can see the breakdown of what the money will be used for in the fund description.

Please give generously!

[bureauen]

mabel haters you are not invited to my wedding btw

[sp0o0kylights]

Grass is green, water is wet, and Jonathan Byers does not like Steve Harrington.

These are known facts in the universe.

Computers were going to take over the world, a “mobile” phone was being invented, and Steve Harrington had lost most of his hearing.

These were unknown facts--rumors even, if you will. Eddie had never seen even a grain of truth to support any of them. 

(Well, maybe the computer thing, but only because Grant and Dustin both had made a couple of convincing arguments.) 

So he doesn’t think about it, when his freshman gang up on him. 

Doesn’t even factor the “can’t hear well” thing in, when he was tasked (demanded, whined, bitched and moaned at) with helping them explain to Steve why going to the release party of the new D&D box set, located at a hobby store only a mere 2 hour drive away, was important.

Eddie’s not even sure how the little shits got him to agree to do it until he’s standing in the parking lot in front of the former King himself. 

“The store’s leading up to the release with a handful of one-shots.” He’s explaining, unsure whether to pull out the bored act or play up his court jester persona, and thus mixing and matching on the fly. 

He does not care if Harrington doesn’t know what a one-shot is. 

“They’re releasing the set at midnight. You have to be there to get it though, you can’t have someone else pick it up for you because they only got a certain amount in.” 

Harrington’s frowning (no surprise) but it’s not until Eddie is well into his spiel about how his van is already full with the elder members of Hellfire, and thus has no room for the freshmen, that he realizes Steve isn’t quite looking at him. 

Is in fact, looking over his shoulder.

Eddie stops. Follows Harrington’s gaze.

Parked across from Steve’s Beemer, is Jonathan Byer’s barely working clunker car. 

A handful of steps in front of it, and thus nearly right behind Eddie, is the man himself.

His hands are still moving, mouth shaping words silent as he goes, his gaze locked not on Eddie or the kids--but on Steve. 

Who turns back around as Harrington’s eyes slide right back to him. 

“And this is taking place next Friday?” He says, in that sort of annoyed but resigned way parents aim at their children. “After school?” 

“I’d like to go during  school, but the freshmen insist you wouldn’t let them ditch out.” Eddie tells him. “They had two separate arguments about it.” 

Loud ones, that had interrupted the game and given Eddie a migraine. 

Once again Steve’s eyes slide away from him, to Jonathan. 

“They’re not skipping school.” He says suddenly, a glare forming and Jonathan makes an annoyed noise. 

“They argued about skipping, they’re not going to.” He says aloud, and finally steps up so that he’s next to Eddie instead of behind him. 

“Munson slow down, I can’t sign as fast as you’re talking.” He adds, in the hang-dog grumble he’s notorious for. 

Eddie stares at him. 

“Can he seriously not hear me?” 

“No.” Steve and Jonathan answer together. 

“I can kind of still hear,” Steve adds, gaze returning to Eddie’s face. “But its more loud music or noises. I can lip read, but you’re also talking too fast for that.” 

Without pausing, he turns back to Jonathan and says; “Why can’t you take them?”

“It’s Friday.” Byers deadpans. 

Eddie’s not an expert on sign language, but his hands somehow looked deadpan too. 

He’s not sure how Jonathan did that. 

“So?” Steve snarks back. 

What follows is an argument that Eddie is not, at all involved in, mostly because he’s too busy handling the fact that Jonathan Byers has learned sign language, for Steve Harrington, apparently, and given the tone the argument is taking they still don’t even like each other.  

Eventually the argument ends, Steve throwing his hands in the air and demanding that Jonathan owes him. 

(Eventually Eddie will corner the ever so quiet Will Byers and ask why the hell his brother learned sign language for someone he clearly fucking hates.

“Oh they don’t hate each other.” Baby Byers would say, in that shy, quiet way of his. “I think they’re actually friends now?” 

“You think?”

“Well--you’ve seen them.” Will shrugs. “I think being mean to each other is kinda their thing.” 

‘What the hell.’ Eddie would think, right up until he stumbled across one of the kids sign language books. 

Byers the Elder, he decides, isn’t the only person who should learn sign language to chew out Harrington properly.

The pay off is immediate. 

Or at least, the pay off of watching Steve’s shocked face the first time Eddie signs something vulgar at him is, anyway.)

[michimonie]

Please donate if you can!

First list || Second list || Third List More people in need from my askbox in a clear and easily readable list.

Roba Ayyad - VETTED Roba set up this fundraiser to help save his uncle Mohammad and his 5 cousins. There's a severe lack of medical options in Gaza, which contributed to his grandmother's death. His family has been through so much and he wants to make sure that they live in safety, as well as having access to proper medical treatment.

€21,701 / €35,000

Maher Gaza - VETTED (by association) Him and his family of 8 were able to escape to Egypt, but are now facing other challenges. They need help paying off the debts incurred from their escape, education for the kids, and getting a safe home to live.

£5,234 / £50,000

Heba Alanqar - VETTED Heba is a university student who's family is dealing with many effects of the war. Their house has been destroyed and the family is dealing with many medical problems. They need help escaping to Egypt and covering the many expenses that come with that trip.

€4,448 / €60,000

Ayaa - VETTED (by association) A children's school teacher who woke up one morning to find everything had been destroyed. She needs to get her and her family evacuated and cover daily expenses, as well as housing costs.

$5,154 / $20,000

Jumana - VETTED Her husband's family of 16 is trapped in Gaza and in urgent need of medical care, including prosthetic limbs. They need to afford the costs to get their family into Egypt and cover medical expenses.

$14,366 / $60,000

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Please donate if you can!

🍉🍉🍉

[randomsdra2fan]

Hello🤗❤️

I hope you are well🌹

Can you help me get my voice heard

and share my family's story?🙏🏻

Can you Reblog my pinned post from my blog or donate 10$?

By helping to reblog my story, you could

save a family from death and war.🌹

Thank you very much🌸

🕊️❤️🌹🙏🏻

Ofc <3

[elodieunderglass]

I’m seeing an uptick in “begging scam asks” that are profiting from people’s generosity towards evacuees from Gaza. I’m happy to boost vetted/verified fundraisers, but I do not respond to fundraising asks.

[batboopp]

bruce wayne they could never make me hate you. they could also never make me like you either. good god you are fucked up

[mohammedsaqrr]

Help my family survive the continuing war in gaza

Hello, my name is Mohammed Saqr, from North Gaza.

we want dreams and love for life like any young person in the world. I joined Al-Quds Open University to fulfill my dream of studying like any young person in the world, but it seems that I will not be able to achieve my dream because of the brutal war on the Gaza Strip, which destroyed our entire house, and I lost everything I owned and relied on to achieve my dream, including my laptop, university books and library.

We are a family of 12, displaced from our home in North Gaza to the southern areas under inhumane conditions.

This is my daughter, who grew up in the middle of the war, no kid should go through this kind of childhood and trauma. its unfair and we can’t do anything about it to give our kids the lovely childhood that they deserve.

I am appealing to you, the global community, for help. I have started a GoFundMe campaign with the aim of raising 30,000 Euros to enable me and my family to find safety in Egypt. The evacuation fees change from time to time; we currently expect a cost of between 4,000-5,000 dollars per person. Any additional funds generated will go towards supporting my immediate needs and those of my family. There are various obstacles that we will face on the other side, and I hope that we can make some things easier for us.

I would like to update you on the situation now that the war has intensified. We are fine and safe, but life has become very difficult now all around us, people are suffering more and losing loved ones every day. As a family, we have literally lost everything we own, our homes and businesses, but we are trying to remain optimistic by thinking about evacuating and we heard good news today that the borders may open soon. We pray that this is true.

Once we are evacuated, we will try hard to rebuild a small part of what we lost in Gaza. If we can achieve our ultimate goal, we will have the funds to start a business to support our entire family. We want to be able to start over and not suffer anymore in Egypt. If everyone can help us with a small donation to achieve our ultimate goal, we will be able to rebuild our lives after everything was destroyed.

All the positive words cannot express how generous you are especially in sharing my posts to inform other donors about the people of Gaza who are still suffering from the terrible conditions caused by the unjust war on Gaza. Please continue to support the most just cause in the world either by donating directly or by sharing the link to other media. Do not hesitate to help people in difficult and miserable times until the dark days are over.