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Here's a website where Palestine GoFundMes are vetted and shared that you can send out to people. The url is gazafunds.com

Easy to use and simple. Just share the site whenever someone asks for GFMs for Palestine.

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My Experience Buying eSIMs for Gaza by Maia Kobabe

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My Experience Buying eSIMs for Gaza 

Project organized by @ connectinghumanity_

by Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks 

Page 1 

In Fall 2023, I saw instructions on instagram for how to purchase an eSIM card and submit it to be distributed to someone in Gaza. 

Download an eSIM app-> Select Middle East as the region-> Purchase-> Screenshot the QR code-> Do not activate-> send to [email protected] 

Image of Maia looking at eir phone. “That sounds easy, I’ll buy one.” 

I emailed an Airalo eSIM QR code to gazaesims on Nov 17 2023. 

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By January 2024, it hadn’t been activated yet. I bought a second one from Nomad and sent my new QR code and resubmitted my old one. 

Image of Maia looking at eir phone. “How long does this usually take, I wonder?” 

By February neither had been activated, but Connecting Humanity kept posting about needing more. I bought a second Nomad and resubmitted all of them on February 15, 2024. 

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The Nomad eSIMs are much cheaper than Airalo, but what I didn’t realize is that they expire even if they haven’t been activated. At the end of February I decided to try a third company, Simly. Here’s a price comparison: 

AIRALO: $39 USD for 3GB, never expires 

SIMLY: $22 USD for 3GB, never expires 

NOMAD: $16 USD for 3GB, expires after 8 weeks even if unused, only offers in-app refunds 

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Connecting Humanity asks folks to wait at least 3 weeks before resending a QR code that hasn’t been activated yet. On March 7 Mirna Elhelbawi posted: 

We send EVERY esim we receive. Bear in  mind that we are dealing with people at a war zone. They might take it and get killed before activating it, they might take it and their phone gets lost or destroyed. They might take it and search for days for stable internet connection to activate it, and some of them activate it unsuccessfully due to lack of knowledge and the horrific situations they are in. ~Connecting Gaza 

By early April, my first Nomad eSIM expired unused. I resubmitted my three remaining eSIMs. 

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Suddenly, two of my eSIMs were activated on the same day! The Airalo I’d purchased 4.5 months earlier and my second Nomad. 

Image of Maia looking happy and surprised. 

Image of Maia looking very intensely at eir phone. “I have to make sure these don’t run out!” 

I began buying top-up packages immediately. 

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I felt like I had planted a seed in the fall and waited all winter for it to sprout. Seeing it activated was like watching the first new leaves break the soil. 

Image of Maia with a watering can labeled “data”, sprinkling water on two little sprouts. “Watering my eSIMs!” 

Sadly, only .07 GB of data was ever used on my Nomad. It was never used again after that first day. 

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But my Airalo has been in constant use for over a month now. I check on it every day. 

I will never know the person I am buying data for and they will never know me. But we are connected by the same strings of hope and grief that connect us all. 

Image of two hands holding a phone, which is connected to a flying kite. 

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On April 5, 2024 Connecting Humanity reported they had sent more than 250,000 eSIMs to Gaza, equivalent to approximately $6.3 million donated! You can visit gazaesims.com for more info, instructions, and discounts. Here are my referral codes: 

MAIA5367 for $3 off Airalo 

MB772 for $3 off Simly 

MAIA66GF for $3 off Nomad 

If you need more incentive, the Cartoonist Coop is doing art rewards. Visit cartoonist.coop/esims4gaza 

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Image of Maia, weighing two options. “Buying an eSIM is easy and can make a very direct impact. It can also take a lot of patience and could get expensive over time if you commit to keeping the eSIM topped up indefinitely.” 

If an immediate one time donation is more your speed, I recommend Operation Olive Branch and Gazafunds, two places to find Gofundmes aiding Palestinian families. 

gazafunds.com

@ operationolivebranch on insta

linktr.ee/opolivebranch 

-Maia Kobabe 2024 

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clocking in for another day at the i dont wanna factory

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The real saw trap is reading an incredibly wrong take about your blorbo and seeing that it’s actually very popular

#need I say it…

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if you are struggling with choosing which fundraisers to support, please consider donating to the following places providing medical aid, food, and other supplies to palestine at this time:

donate to doctors without borders here

donate to careforgaza here, providing food, medicine and clothing

donate an e-sim to gaza today

donate feminine hygiene kits for women in gaza

donate to the palestinian civilian relief fund

donate to the palestine children's relief fund

donate to the world food programme

donate medical aid for palestinians

donate to the united nations relief for palestine refugees

donate to healpalestine

if you are looking for individual fundraisers to donate to but are struggling to choose, gazafunds gives a spotlight to fundraisers that are not close to their goal.

instead of watching and supporting eurovision tonight, please instead boost this post & donate if you can. keep your eyes on rafah.

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"what's your dream job??" Uhh to have 17 weird little hobbies that I don't have to be good at and hang out with friends. I get money via being the world's specialist little princess

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The things I devoured so I could devour you

#delicious in dungeon

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shes so cute

#delicious in dungeon

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Hey everyone it's me, tumblr handle zzztlk (or sleeptlk for ig, samzalastname for twt). Rn I'm working on eventually publishing a webcomic. Not out yet but you can check out the existing art, info and development in the #ttb tag

Current status: (x) still in development and no release date yet. Working on episode 1 art and act 1 draft revisions. Teaser episode up here!

#ttbasks —> asks specifically about my webcomic and the little people that populate it, lots of (like wayyy more) misc doodles of them stuffed in there

#asks —> all other asks, see #faq or #art process stuff for stuff about brushes programs and other art q's 

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Do you know anything i can donate to for palestine that's not the gofundmes because the idea of having to choose who needs my money more is just. scary to me they all need it 3: maybe there's a thing that splits/distributes money evenly???? idk but help would be appreciated

Gazafunds actually deals with this anxiety and makes a decision for you if you want. Their home page has a spotlighted fundraiser and the code consider things like how close the gfm is to finishing, when the most recent donation is, etc. So it's randomized to help as many people as possible.

There's also @helpgazachildren which if you donate, you can help multiple people at once since it's a whole mutual aid fund, or at least close to it. Hussam distributes money to people who need it when he's asked.

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Welcome to Tumblr Artists For Palestine [TAFP]!

We are a small group of artists working towards providing aid and charity to Palestinians in need. We hold small events to collect donations, such as our upcoming art drive. Please take a look around!

For our art drive, being held at May 8th (starting 9AM PST), we have 8 artists offering their services in exchange for donations that will go directly to charity.

Truncated information can be found in this spreadsheet, including links to each artist’s specific post with details.

The flow goes as such, for transparency's sake;

Select an artist to commission. 

Contact them directly through their socials (tumblr/discord). DM the details and specifics of your commission. Please keep aware what your selected artist can and cannot draw; Collectively, we refuse to draw art that promotes incestuous or adult/minor romantic/sexual relationships.  

You will have to send your email to receive an invoice. Once confirmed, you will receive an invoice through PayPal.

Send payment.

Once we confirm the donation, your artist will start working on your commission. Each artist has a different workflow, but will provide at least one WIP unless specified. 

At the latest, you will receive your piece 1.5 months (~90 days) after the donation is sent.

We are not accepting payments through other services for now.

If you have any questions, feel free to send us an ask!

We all appreciate each and every contribution to our drive, including shares and interaction! It helps us get around, and all of that.

We are currently donating half of our raised money to Help the Shbuir Family Evacuate from Gaza, and the other half towards Esims for people still currently in Gaza.

We will release our finances at the end of the drive here.

Links to other charities you can donate to! Operation Olive Branch PCRF Vetted Fundraiser Masterpost Masterpost - List of fundraisers for direct contacts - Vetted family fundraiser masterpost 1 - Vetted family fundraiser masterpost 2 - Fundraisers for general purposes Gazafunds | Gazafunds all campaigns

All banners are made by @wolvzephyr.

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Welcome to Tumblr Artists For Palestine [TAFP]! We are a small group of artists working towards providing aid and charity to Palestinians in need. We hold small events to collect donations, such as our art drive starting on May 13th!

Feel free to check out our pinned post for more details, and consider reblogging to spread this around!

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Holy shit. The Israeli whistleblower story CNN just broke is insane. I cannot believe what I’m reading

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“Never Gonna Give You Up” with every second beat removed

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how?? just how?

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writers and artists will go "this isn't good enough." my brother in christ, you're creating something new out of nothing and expressing yourself creatively. your productivity and unrealistic standards of perfection do not define you or the worth of your art. you're doing great.