The Sameer Project started from a desire to help our Palestinian people differently - with dignity, without conditions, and in a way that returned agency instead of creating dependency.
We continued because the genocide continued.
And now, we are devastated to say that The Sameer Project is being forced to pause our daily operations.
Not because the need has decreased. Because the money has run out.
We are panicking. We are stressed. We are heartbroken because we know exactly what this pause means for the people who rely on us.
Mothers still need to feed their children. Families still need drinking water. The elderly and sick still need medication. People are still being killed in airstrikes and shootings while the occupation continues to manufacture deprivation by restricting aid.
We have always been an emergency response group. When you donated, we spent that money immediately on people who needed help NOW. We did not save it for some predictable tomorrow, because in Gaza tomorrow has never been promised.
Now we are reaching a point we never wanted to reach: we do not have enough coming in to keep responding.
This pause is not administrative. It is not harmless. When food, water, medicine, transportation, and emergency assistance disappear, people can die.
We desperately need you to understand the urgency of this moment.
Please help us restart operations. Please donate. Please share. Please do not let Gaza lose another lifeline.
In the coming days we will share with you exactly how to be part of the solution - how to bring The Sameer Project back. The need did not stop and neither can we. Stand with us…
❤️🩹 - The Sameer Project Team
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there's is absolutely no fucking reason keith porter jr's GFM hasn't triple'd it's goal by now. but it hasn't even completed it yet.
his family and story are actively being pushed out of the news cycle while his killer faces absolutely no repercussions.
https://t.co/3Nj7uTtDiF
Begging you not to let Wael’s story get lost amidst all the horrors.
He was a 30 year old disabled man. His dad was his full time caregiver.
ICE took him away.
Wael said it would kill him. He said the fear was “real & immediate”.
He died last week. ICE killed Wael.
important to articulate that ice has BEEN killing immigrants (documented and not) and people of color. white working class US-born citizens being killed is a wake up call for a lot of people about the lengths ice will go to but we need to oppose ALL of the violence they enact.
Black man named Keith Porter Jr. was shot dead by an off-duty ICE agent as he was celebrating New Years in Northridge, LA.
He was 43, a father of two daughters, and no arrest has been made.
Below is a GoFundMe to support his family. #SayHisName#KeithPorter#BlackLivesMatter
My new year resolution is the opposite of cutting people off. Instead, I want to make a million friends, experience life and make genuine connections. I want my phone to constantly ring because friends want to hangout with me or talk to me.