guys this is my best friend's gofoundme. she's going homeless. please donate and at least share, the situation is dire

two lonely rabbits, two hearts beating as one 🐇🖤🤍 (animated gif)

closeups of this piece! (still images)

a dance with you lasting for all eternity 🐇🖤🤍 inprnt

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Everyone knows Hazem, he lived an orphan, and when he got married and had children, the occupation killed in this war 💔

(gaza soup kitchen - can you match $5?)

Here lies my brother, his body broken and his spirit nearly extinguished after the war took everything from us. He dreamed of a simple future, a life filled with peace, but the war was too cruel to allow his dreams to survive. Today, he lies among machines and wires, silently fighting for survival. His heart still beats, but his body can no longer endure the pain. With each passing moment, hope fades bit by bit.

We, his family, are doing everything we can to keep him alive, but the cost of treatment exceeds our capacity. We need those who can stand by us, those who can give my brother a second chance at life, a chance to drink from the hope he’s been waiting for. Your donation, no matter how small, could be the difference between a new life for him or an end.

Help us bring my brother back to life and give him the smile that the war stole from him.

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0$ \ $1000 ?💔

a giant lamp / of light, it is voltage, / it is more like a lantern / than like a house poem excerpt, stephen ackerman source image

Please donate to Eslam family!

“My name is Eslam from Gaza, I’m 29 years old, and I’m a children teacher from Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip. a mother of two daughters, Hanaa 5 years old, and Alma, 10 months old. My husband Rasmi is the director of 3 language and training centers. In this war, our house was completely destroyed and razed to the ground, and my husband’s centers were blown up. He lost his job, and we were completely displaced, and we are now homeless and jobless, My two young daughters constantly suffer from diseases due to malnutrition and water pollution.

Danger and death surround us all day and all night. We have lost everything and depend on donations to survive and, most of all, to have any hope of escaping this genocide and evacuating to safety in Egypt. The cost of daily living continues to rise significantly in Gaza - imagine that we cannot find the type of milk for our daughter because of its high price. There is no kind of detergent and this is the cause of skin diseases for my two little girls. We bought a piece of soap for $30! ، and detergent is 100$"

As of 8:46pm November 11, 2024 (GMT+8) $31,955 raised out of $50,000

vetted: bees and watermelon spreadsheet #175

@eslamfa9 @eslamfa8

Thank you for your support and your cute drawing. I love you from the bottom of my heart. I hope you and your family are always well 🫶🩵🩵🩵🩵

Strange Bird

Help spread the aid link to my family until the fundraiser Save our lives from annihilation 🙏💔

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I was once a young man full of dreams and hopes, looking at life as a field of endless opportunities. My days felt bright, filled with energy and excitement for the future.😩

But then, war came. It hit like a harsh storm, destroying not just buildings and streets but everything I had inside me. My life turned to ashes, and my dreams were scattered like dust.💔

Today, I feel like my youth has withered before its time, as if the light in my life has faded. Even in quiet moments, a deep fear chases me—fear that, even if the war ends, nothing will ever be the same. The life I once knew feels like a distant memory, unreachable and lost.

But I hold on to hope that there are people out there who can help bring a little light back into my life. I know each of you has your own life ‼️💔, your own struggles. But I believe that, in the end, our shared humanity must come first. Please don’t turn away; even the smallest act of kindness can bring warmth back to hearts like mine, hearts struggling in darkness.

With your support , I can begin to rebuild not just my life, but my spirit. Together, we can create a world where compassion guides us, a world where no one feels abandoned.

Some pictures show my features changing between the past and the present I live, and I also deliberately do not show pictures that show suffering harshly, such as my picture in the hospital and my pictures under bombardment because this makes me feel depressed 😣

Thanks to God and then thanks to your support I got 26,678 pounds, I mean that we reached 40‎%‎ of the goal, the goal will be a goal of about 30,000 pounds, which is 50% of the goal. I hope you will participate a lot until it reaches donors and we achieve the success of my campaign in order to devote me to help people on the ground and check their campaigns !!️ 💔🙏

@stuckinapril @appsa @nabulsi @el-shab-hussein @irhabiya @sar-soor @buttercuparry

This is my account with which I posted my campaign and help myself and my family if you can help with the donation or in publishing my campaign to reach the donors 🤍

It's really ridiculous how we had literal video proof of items being bought and distributed but GoFundMe still deleted HelpGazaChildren's campaign because there weren't any itemized receipts for the aid... Like I understand that in most other situations they're required, but how can you expect receipts from a literal warzone where people are constantly fleeing for their lives??

@abo-ataa, our friend Hussam from HelpGazaChildren, had dedicated all his time and energy into helping displaced people in Gaza, even when he himself was displaced, to the point where he doesn't even have a proper tent for him and his family.

And his personal fundraiser was also cancelled by GoFundMe, where they didn't allow him to collect the 9,000 Euros he raised!

Please try to contribute to his campaign where he's raising funds for him and his family to try and survive the harsh winter. Any amount, no matter how small, will go a long way in supporting them throughout all this.

Hello my dears

I am Hamdi Al-Shaltawi from Gaza, from a family of eight people. We had our small store before the war, and we were marginalised from it. We lived a happy life in our home, but the war came and destroyed our house and our small store, and we have no source left. We and I and my family are going through very difficult days. We have survived death several times and we have been displaced many times. We are entering the eleventh month of the war, and we have no way left to live. I and my family decided to travel abroad to escape death, but the cost of travel is very high. I hope that you will support me and my family on the link. We do not want to We are numbers

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rubbing my hands together delightedly as there is FINALLY a conversation starting in art spaces about artists making their entire incomes via outsourcing cheap labor for mass produced sweatshop merch. Perish ye petit bourgeois

is it like. not possible to get some of this shit done domestically? not talking abt the stickers you mentioned in your tags, i saw someone mention... charms? in a post? like dangle charms? youre telling me those are all sweat shop labor and theres no alternate? or is it that the alternates arent "afforable" or smth for "small businesses"?

im going to admit im not educated on this. its a failing i wasnt and i wanna fix that now for obvs reasons. is it like, most of the shit you find on etsy? shacker charms and and dangle charms and all that related stuff? how far does it go? are there alternates that are ethical that people are just choosing not to use for some reason? i dont even like. know how to look up this information for myself ill be honest, idek what to type into a search bar to try and get relevant info.

I’m not a Total Expert, but I’ve looked into making merch before and generally there’s no ethical options for things like plushies, enamel pins, or acrylic charms / stands / etc. If you try to find where to get these things made - including searching specifically for transparent and ethical business practices - you can’t get ANYTHING that isn’t incredibly sketchy if you even squint a little. the manufacturers all export to Indonesia and China (this isn’t xenophobia rooted, this is abt globally unequal labor costs), and generally you’ll be getting a charm or pin for $3 or less in a batch order that you can then sell for $15-30. if you look at the process to make these things - like making custom metal dies for every enamel pin - the cost is NOT that marginal. the trade off is then not adequately paying labor. the reason why you can’t find producers in the USA is because regardless of how much work we have to do on our labor laws, there is just no way for a USA manufacturer to legally get away with the by-commission manufacturing of plushies, pins, charms, etc at the scale, customization, and low cost that artists are currently getting them at in countries with weaker labor protections. additionally, working with things like enamel is very hazardous and I would not imagine the safety protocols are adequate for those. I would really like to see that change - something like acrylic charms feels very doable to do more ethically at a higher price point, but we then have to be ok with paying more for that product. and we have to accept that things like plushies are going to need to be fully handmade and a lot more expensive.

this is also on top of the environmental cost of freighting a bunch of merch orders overseas and manufacturing largely plastic based goods for things like fandoms that will probably end up in landfills eventually (not always! I know lots of folks treasure goods from artists, but realistically, the bulk of it is not going to be a prized heirloom).

there’s nothing PERFECT, but things like t-shirts and paper goods can be printed locally, by small businesses, and there can be an effort made to get non-hanes base shirts that are more responsibly produced. the western world in general has to get more comfortable with less little treats, less products on demand to our exact specifications, less profiting off of outsourced labor. because others suffer for our convenience and pleasure.

Unless it's maybe something like a two piece pillow, ALL plush is handmade plush.

What we label "handmade plush" is just plush that wasn't sewn by the anonymous hands of overseas laborors, and I really think we should switch our language to something like "locally sewn" because calling my plush handmade creates a false dichotomy and dehumanizes folks who work their asses off doing what I do x100.

If anything those guys are the ones deserving of the title of plush artists, I only dabble in the stuff by comparison. Frankly I think us plush hobbyists should really humble ourselves when talking about the factory workers in China, Indonesia, Bangladesh etc.. most of us wouldn't last a goddamn month working their gigs. Most people can't fathom their walmart teddy was handmade because of the intense skill level and admittedly their employer's access to more specialized machinery than a household singer or brother machine. Workers who have honed and mastered their skills always make their craft appear easy to outsiders and we take perfect for granted, it's not until our eye lands on a flaw that we usually begin to process the sweat and complexity put into a piece.

It's really ridiculous how we had literal video proof of items being bought and distributed but GoFundMe still deleted HelpGazaChildren's campaign because there weren't any itemized receipts for the aid... Like I understand that in most other situations they're required, but how can you expect receipts from a literal warzone where people are constantly fleeing for their lives??

@abo-ataa, our friend Hussam from HelpGazaChildren, had dedicated all his time and energy into helping displaced people in Gaza, even when he himself was displaced, to the point where he doesn't even have a proper tent for him and his family.

And his personal fundraiser was also cancelled by GoFundMe, where they didn't allow him to collect the 9,000 Euros he raised!

Please try to contribute to his campaign where he's raising funds for him and his family to try and survive the harsh winter. Any amount, no matter how small, will go a long way in supporting them throughout all this.

Don't skip please

My name is Abdelqader Abu Ghosh, I’m 18 years old, from Gaza. I live in a city that embodies resilience amidst the sounds of war and the smell of destruction, where life feels like a series of endless challenges. Here, I’ve learned that life isn’t just days passing by, but moments we face and decisions we make, even as we live under a war that never seems to end.

Each day brings a new battle, not only for survival but for hope, a hope we try to keep alive amid all this rubble. I dream of a normal life, waking up one day without the sounds of explosions, seeing my friends and family safe. Despite all the pain, I hold onto a simple dream — to leave a mark, to be part of the change this place deserves.

I long for a future where I can write my story in my own way, where Gaza is safe, and life is simpler than it is now. Through all the hardships, I remain hopeful that tomorrow may bring better things, for myself and my loved ones, because here we dream and rebuild, no matter what.

Every donation will help me achieve my dream.