It's now winter in Gaza, and with it has come storms and flooding and heavy winds, flooding and destroying the tents that so many Gazans are still forced to rely on for shelter.
Sally @sally2033 and Nader's family, like many families in Gaza, are in need of funds to help survive the winter, to help secure warm clothing, blankets, waterproof tarps, and other shelter necessities in the wake of these winter storms.
If you can spare anything during this holiday season, please consider donating to our campaign and sharing this post! Your support is a lifeline for Gazans, and is so, so greatly appreciated. Thank you so much.
by the way, ik everyone is paying attention to politicians' sex scandals, but you should know there was a collapse at one of the copper/cobalt mining operations in the drc with at least 32 deaths. here is an al jazeera link to the story. if you are reading this from a mobile phone or laptop, or if you use a vape, you should be paying attention. these are the people who have suffered for you to have those things. it is suspected that 200,000 people or more have been exploited into these illegal and dangerous mining operations. that is greater than the population of ontario, canada.
below are places where you can financially contribute. if you cant, share the news. tell your friends and people you know about it!
Hope and Healing is a humanitarian initiative led by Team Congo, in close collaboration with… Team Congo needs your support for Hope & Heali
Cobalt is a necessary mineral for rechargeable batteries, used from anything from electric vehicles, to laptops and phones, to disposable vapes.
The vast majority of the world's cobalt is obtained from the Congo, something like ≈70%. Most of these mines are owned by companies in other countries, China being a major stakeholder.
In the Congo, cobalt is sourced from open-pit mines.
The workers are essentially slaves, doing back-breaking labor for menial pay. Many of them are children. This is illegal, but corrupt government officials turn a blind eye. Foreign powers do the same, knowing that their tech industries and profit margins benefit directly from these human rights violations.
Congolese people work these mines without proper equipment or safety measures, constantly in contact with and breathing toxic materials and particulates. Runoff from the mines also gets into local water sources, making them unhealthy to drink.
Always buy used electronics wherever you can. Avoid tech waste; don't upgrade unnecessarily. If you use disposable vapes, please stop. It isn't worth it.
Spread the word. Free Congo from western exploitation!
I need you to stop what you're doing. Stop playing your game, stop reading your book, stop listening to your music. I need you, all of you, please, to go and help palestinians. Right now and in the future. I need you to help them because they need our help, our help to survive the horrible conditions created by israel.
Please, do something for those who need it, today.
My friend Abdalrhman has had, very understandably, a hard few years. He’s had to battle things hardly any of us have even come close to dealing with. Bombs, bullets, the destruction of his home, a famine, he has had to brave them all, and has lived through them all. I ask you to please, please, help him.
Hello,
I'm Abdelrahman, 22 years old. My journey has been… Abdallah Alanqar needs your support for Help Abdelrahman Rebuild His Future –
Please don't abandon us, don't leave us. We need your support and donations. You are our safety net; we have no one but you to stay well. Please donate to us. Please don't leave us.
My friends in Gaza, there are no signs of life left. We are struggling against time and the passing days to get out of here and stay alive. Please donate. Your donations help us immensely. Please don't abandon us.
Please don't abandon us when we desperately need your support and assistance. Please, please donate to us now. Your donations are vital and will keep us alive. Please donate.
I can vouch personally for the validity of this campaign, as well as @gazavetters (#6 on the list).
They urgently, URGENTLY need your donation.
A reblog that’s all it really takes. There are campaigns on here with tens of thousands of notes how do you think they got there?
By everyone scrolling past? Complain about morality OCD and compassion burnout all you want. My friend Ghada's family survived the bombing, but they are not safe.
Even after the so-called ceasefire, their lives are still hanging by a thread. At any moment I am not speaking to Ghada, it is possible that she has no food, no shelter, no safety this is what “after the war” looks like in Gaza.
Think about living with ruins instead of homes, fear instead of stability, and the echo of everything they lost. There’s no “getting used to” that as your constant reality.
So when I ask you to reblog this post, think about the lack of effort it would take to flick your thumb and realize it could still be saving the lives of 14 people, affected by destruction and trauma far beyond what you could possibly imagine on your own.
Happy holidays to everyone whose holiday isn’t what they want it to be. whether it is illness, poverty, distance from loved ones or something else that’s making things tough for you this year, i hope that you can find peace and warmth. i hope that your year will end and start on a brighter note
Please please please PLEASE keep your cats indoors right now. H5N1 (HPAI, highly pathogenic avian influenza) is zoonotic to cats, and it is just as deadly for them. Additionally, if you have a way to keep your shoes away from your cat(s), or sanitize them after being out in the world (bleach footbath for example), a little biosecurity wouldn't hurt.
A sanctuary in Washington just lost 20 of their rescue big cats to this virus. It is not getting less dangerous for your cats this year than it was last.
The people who run this sanctuary here on Harstine Island say the death of the cats feels like a death in the family.
It has ALWAYS been dangerous to let house cats free roam without supervision, but it's becoming dangerous right now to be taking them on leashes if they will have access to ground birds have recently been on, or water they have accessed. Catios might be okay, if they're covered and well-screened, but I would take a moment to subscribe to your local state ag department's email or phone alerts for HPAI in your area, and react accordingly even for covered outdoor areas.
What's worse is people are claiming the "Penney effect" . That man killed a homeless man and walked. People aren't "afraid" of doing anything. They wanted to record.period.
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