RAFFLE ANNOUNCEMENT: SUPPORT A FAMILY IN NEED

RAFFLE ANNOUNCEMENT: SUPPORT A FAMILY IN NEED

We're offering a custom portrait to one lucky winner, and your participation can make a life-saving difference!

Sohad's family in Palestine is in desperate need of help. A young child from this family is critically ill due to the lack of clean water. All proceeds from this raffle will go directly to supporting the family!

How to Enter:

1️⃣ Donate at least $10 to their GoFundMe [link here]. Then send proof of your donation to me.

2️⃣ For every $10 you donate, you’ll receive one entry into the raffle for a chance to win a personalized digital portrait.

Deadline:

Make your donation by 01/10 to enter.

Even if you don’t win the portrait, your generosity will have a lasting impact on a family @kareem-family2 .

I will be making 5 more raffles so even if you don't win this one there's still a chance to participate help them!

Thank you for your support and good luck!

Please help me rebulid my Bakery

gofundme.com

Donate to Please Help Ismail Rebuild His Bakery, organized by Valeria V

From Flour to Rubble: Ismail's Journey of Resilience Ismail, a baker from Gaza, on… Valeria V needs your support for Please Help Ismail

I'm Ismail Almughanni an entrepreneur from devastated Gaza trying his best to rebuild his Bakery 🍞🥐🥖

On a quiet morning, the aroma of freshly baked bread filled the street, signaling the start of a new day at your small bakery, a place you took immense pride in. For years, this bakery had been a haven where people from all around would gather to enjoy the warm, delicious pastries and bread that you carefully crafted. It was a symbol of hard work, a beacon of hope, and a destination for anyone seeking a taste of comfort amidst life's challenges.

But one day, in the blink of an eye, everything changed. The sounds of bombing began to shake the city, and it wasn’t long before the fires of war reached your neighborhood. There was no warning, no chance to escape or save what you could. Shells rained down on the district that housed your beloved bakery. You watched helplessly from a distance, unable to do anything.

Minutes passed like hours. When the noise finally subsided, and the thick smoke that blocked out the sun began to clear, you looked towards your cherished place. It was destroyed.

The walls that once protected you and brought you closer to your customers had collapsed, and the oven where you had kindled the flames of hope had turned to ash. Everything was shattered, broken, as if that place had never been a sanctuary of peace and comfort.

But the destruction wasn’t just physical. The pain in your heart was far greater than any material loss, a place filled with beautiful memories now reduced to rubble. The moments when you saw smiles on people’s faces as they savored your bread, the laughter that echoed through the bakery—those were now just memories, dissolving in the ashes of devastation.

As days went by, you tried to piece together the fragments, not just of the bakery but of yourself as well. You knew rebuilding wouldn’t be easy, and the wounds left by the war wouldn’t heal quickly. But you also knew that the hope you had infused into your bread would remain alive in your heart, even if the tables and chairs were destroyed, even if the bakery itself was gone.

The bakery may have been destroyed by war, but its spirit lives on in you, in everyone who tasted your bread, and in everyone who walked into that small place and found a slice of happiness.

gofundme.com

Donate to Please Help Ismail Rebuild His Bakery, organized by Valeria V

From Flour to Rubble: Ismail's Journey of Resilience Ismail, a baker from Gaza, on… Valeria V needs your support for Please Help Ismail

🍉 vetted fundraisers to support pt. 2 🍉

all of these are ones from my inbox lately!

Eman ( @emanfamily3 ): $986 / $5000 🍉 vetted: by association with another campaign vetted by 90-ghost 🍉 donate here

Bisan ( @besan11 ): €42,351 / €85,000 [Al-Balawi family fund] £3,647 / £8,000 [personal campaign] 🍉 vetted: family fund shared by 90-ghost + Al-Balawi family vetting 🍉 donate here [family], and here [personal]

Yahya ( @yahyabkheeblog ): €5,271 / €30,000 🍉 vetted: by nabulsi 🍉 donate here

Oday ( @oday-alanqar1 ): €466 / €50,000 🍉 vetted: #261 on el-shab-hussein & nabulsi's spreadsheet 🍉 donate here 🍉 note: previously posted on my other list, but due to the campaign having to be restarted, i am adding it here for additional visibility

Ameer's family ( @ameertaimsalama1 ): kr24,346 SEK / kr200,000 🍉 vetted: shared by 90-ghost 🍉 donate here

Munna ( @monashamali90 ): £14,595 / £30,000 🍉 vetted: by nabulsi 🍉 donate here

Rabah ( @rabah1monis ): $1,223 / $41,300 🍉 vetted: shared by 90-ghost 🍉 donate here

Lubna ( @lobnaalseer ): €7,804 / €50,000 🍉 vetted: shared by 90-ghost 🍉 donate here

Tahrir ( @tahreer1990t ): $10,382 / $65,000 🍉 vetted: shared by 90-ghost 🍉 donate here

Tahseen ( @tahseenkhazen ): $13,700 / $25,000 🍉 vetted: shared by 90-ghost 🍉 donate here

Aseel ( @aseelo680 ): $37,110 / $50,000 🍉 vetted: shared by 90-ghost 🍉 donate here

appalachia is devastated. towns i loved, towns i visited all the time, are gone. not damaged, GONE. they are leveled to the ground. there is nothing left but rubble and ruin. people are dead. appalachia is poor to begin with and relies on tourism for a lot of its income, and multiple of those tourist locations are just...gone.

my town is okay, but it's flooded and wrecked. trees are blocking all but one way out of our neighborhood. power lines are hanging limp in the roads. we've been without power for over 24 hours and will continue to be without power for likely another 24+. disabled people and poor people are GOING to die from this. gods save appalachia.

I’ve been saving up for a binder for the past year and it looks like I can finally afford to get the one I want. :)