Hey y'all, it's Rianenin. This month, as we mark a year of genocide in Gaza, I want to let

y'all know about a way that each one of us can help the people of Gaza right now who are

still facing bombardment and starvation and forced displacement.

I am joining the call of the Palestinian Youth Movement, the U.S. campaign for Palestinian

rights, the Palestinian Feminist Collective, and many others to raise

$1 million for the Middle East Children's Alliance, which is a nonprofit humanitarian aid

organization that delivers life-sustaining services to Palestinians in Gaza, even a year into the genocide,

even in places in the Gaza Strip, deemed too dangerous for other international humanitarian organizations.

Since the beginning of the war, MECA and its partners have provided nearly 700,000 meals,

20,000 hygiene kits, 1 million gallons of water, and tens of thousands of warm clothes sets to my people in Gaza.

MECA also supports educational and mental health programming for kids. I am never prouder to be

Palestinian than when I've seen images of young children in Gaza in like a makeshift

classroom in a bombed out building and they're singing songs about

the joyous future ahead. So importantly for me this isn't just about charity.

Donating to help MECA continue to do its work in Gaza right now

is a way to support the continued steadfastness and resilience of the people of Gaza in the face

of unspeakable horror, some of the worst humanitarian crimes of the modern era.

My people in Gaza remain unbroken.

So your donation means a hot meal, a warm jacket, a menstruation kit, which is to say it means the world.

You can make a donation at shut it down for Palestine.org. or slash fundraiser.

That's shut it down and the number four

Palestine.org

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