melissa barrera (the actress who got fired from the scream franchise for being pro palestine) has started a fundraiser with unrwa!
Can confirm that the above link leads to the official US website for UNRWA!
And here's a reason for hope: the fundraiser is blasting away. They just made $50,000 in the past 3 days - let's keep it going!
"Wait, hold on, I don't know what's going on here"
What's the UNRWA?
"The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, employs thousands of staffers and provides vital aid and services to millions of people across the Middle East. In Gaza, it has been the main supplier of food, water and shelter to civilians during the Israel-Hamas war."
-via PBS, January 29, 2024
If their funding is from the UN and various countries, what's up with this fundraiser?
A massive amount of UNRWA's budget was just cut in the middle of a humanitarian crisis, as the US and a number of other countries cut off aid to UNRWA completely.
