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On a personal level, your support has enabled us to overcome these difficulties throughout two years of war. ‼️‼️
Please continue to support my family so we can build a bright future for my children.❤️
Hi everyone, I just wanted to say thank you again for your amazing support for our fundraiser to fund
@joynewacc’s private scholarship at the University of Milan and get her evacuated from Gaza in November.
Thanks to you, we were able to raise over $15,000 in under 24 hours and meet our goal.
Joy can’t thank you herself at the moment as her family has moved to a different shelter and she is currently without Internet. We have already sent her an eSIM and hope she will be online again as soon as possible.
We’re keeping the campaign open until end of day today so if you haven’t had a chance to donate and want to, please do. The additional money we raise will go to covering any unexpected travel, lodging, or other expenses that might arise during her evacuation.
Thank you all again… you have been (and are) wonderful.
Rania 💔 I'm a displaced mom from 🥺, Gaza.
It's been 2 year no home,💔 no warm clothes for me or my kids.
Winter is here and we have nothing to keep us warm🧥 200$Hope remains for kinda🙏
Please small donation means life to my children 🙏💔
Folks, I need your help once again. This time, it’s for our very own
@joynewacc
As you know, Joy has been suffering through genocide and famine in Gaza and still helping others through her work with Gaza Verified. Now she has a chance at freedom as she’s been accepted for a Bachelor’s degree at the University of Milan and we’ve been able to work with the university to create a private scholarship for her.
Now we just need to fund it and she could be evacuated as soon as November and we need your help.
We already have a generous anonymous donor who has pledged $5,000 to match donations up to $10,000. So if you donate now, your donation will be doubled.
As I write this announcement, there’s $525 raised.
The campaign is being organised by
@riverbirchtree who has been leading a team of twelve people from around the world for the past few months to arrange this and myself.
Please donate if you can and help Joy escape to safety, continue her education, and continue helping others in Gaza with Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org).
@joynewacc
@riverbirchtree Folks, I just donated $250 myself which was doubled to $500. (I would donate more but I need to keep what little savings I have so I can fly out and meet Joy and help her get to Milan from Egypt or Jordan once she has left Gaza.)
Looks like we have raised $3,105 so far – thank you so much! Let’s keep this going!
Remember that your donations will be doubled until we get to $10K.
Please donate if you can to help us evacuate Joy from Gaza. And please share so others might do the same.
Thank you so much in advance. C’mon, fediverse, I know we can do this! :)
@joynewacc
@riverbirchtree Folks we’re almost at $5K (that’s almost one-third of the way there)… we’ve managed to raise $4,493 thanks to your kindness to get Joy evacuated to Italy so she can continue her studies at the University of Milan.
You’re making this happen.
Can we get it to $5K?
Every donation you make until $10K will be doubled by our generous anonymous donor.
So we’re really just $300 away from shooting past $5K.
Please donate if you can and please share with others so they may do the same.
@riverbirchtree
@joynewacc Hey folks, we’re almost at $6K… thanks to your kind donations, we’ve raised $5,888 in the past hour to fund Joy’s scholarship to the University of Milan and have her evacuated from Gaza in November.
Thanks to your amazing support (and our wonderful anonymous donor who is matching your donations to $10K), we’ve raised $7,753 in the last two hours towards our goal of $15,000 to fund Joy’s scholarship to the University of Milan in Italy and get her evacuated from Gaza in November.
You’re not only funding Joy’s evacuation but also her scholarship to University of Milan. And thank you so much to all of you who have already raised $7, 784 in the last two hours.
@joynewacc
@riverbirchtree Folks, thanks to your wonderful support, we’re almost two thirds to our goal of $15K to fund Joy’s scholarship to the University of Milan and have her evacuated from Gaza in November.
We’ve managed to raise $8,357 in the past 3 hours, with your donations being matched by our wonderful anonymous donor until we hit $10K.
Can we do it tonight? If so, I’m sure we’ll hit our target by tomorrow.
(And thank you again to everyone who has contributed. You’re not just saving one life but you’re also contributing to her education and, though her work with Gaza Verified, supporting almost 50 families in Gaza.)
@joynewacc
@riverbirchtree Right, it’s been a very long day and I’m going to leave Joy’s Gaza evacuation fundraiser in your capable hands as I catch some sleep.
Thanks to you lovely people on the fediverse (and our anonymous donor who has been matching your donations), we were able to raise more than 50% of the $15,000 we need to fund Joy’s scholarship in the last three hours (we’ve raised $8,657 so far).
Will we push past $10,000 tonight? Will Joy’s scholarship and evacuation from Gaza be fully funded by tomorrow? It’s all up to you.
Thank you so much for your support and for sharing this with your friends so they can help too.
Sending you all my love wishing you all a wonderful rest of your evening.
Lovely folks of the fediverse, I leave Joy’s campaign in your capable hands.
What a beautiful sight to wake up to: Thanks to your amazing support, our fundraiser to create a private scholarship for
@joynewacc at the University of Milan and have her evacuated in November passed the $10,000 mark while I was sleeping.
@riverbirchtree 🥳 We’re past $11,000… since last night, thanks to the kindness of the fediverse we have now raised $11,154 of our goal of $15,000 to fund a private scholarship for
@joynewacc at the University of Milan and get her evacuated from Gaza in November.
We have a little over $3,500 left to raise to hit our goal.
Please donate if you can and share so others can do the same and let’s get Joy to safety in Italy where she can continue her education as well as her work at Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org) where she has already helped almost 50 families from Gaza while enduring genocide and famine herself.
Thank you all for your amazing support… we’re close! :)
Thanks to a generous $1,400 anonymous donation that just came in, we’re at $12,554. That means Joy’s scholarship is funded and we need to raise only a bit more than $2,000 to meet our $15,000 goal so we can cover any additional costs associated with the evacuation itself, such as transportation and temporary lodging.
Folks, I don’t know what to say… it feels like we’re almost at the finish line and it’s all thanks you.
Please keep donating and sharing so others can also.
We’re just $273 away from hitting $13,000 on our campaign to raise $15,000 to fund
@joynewacc’s scholarship at University of Milan (already funded at $12K, thanks to you) as well as any additional costs associated with her evacuation from Gaza (like transportation and temporary lodging).
Can we get it past $13,000 and closer to the finish line?
While I was away, you amazing people managed to get us almost to our goal with our fundraiser to fund
@joynewacc’s private scholarship at University of Milan and get her evacuated in November.
We’ve raised $14,780 out of our goal of $15,000 thanks to your kind support.
Will someone (or a few of you, perhaps) help push us over the finish line?
Thank you so much! You are making an immediate and amazing impact on someone’s life and I love you for it.
(Thank you all so much. I cannot wait to see
@joynewacc leaving Gaza next month and starting her new life with a scholarship at the University of Milan. And your kindness and support are making it happen.)