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the death toll of the turkey-syria earthquake has now reached over 30,000. those who survived are in desperate need of food, clothes, shelter and medical aid. please please please donate if you haven’t done so yet; even ten dollars can make a difference.

ahbap (turkey) | white helmets (syria) | CARE (turkey & syria)

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‼️‼️PLEASE HELP ME FIND MY LITTLE BROTHER!! THIS IS AN EMERGENCY‼️‼️

He’s a missing native child and at EXTREME RISK! The cops aren’t doing SHIT!

BOOST, DONATE, & SHARE

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we need #HELP

PLEASE take the time to learn about what is happening in Turkey at the moment

this is not a joke.

TURKEY IS BEING BURNT DOWN! and It’s not a natural disaster, it’s arson. literal terror. a crime. there are 81 fires going on in 23 different cities. this has been going on for 2 days. people are dying, losing their homes.

helicopters, drones, planes and thousands of firemen are currently trying to control fires in 10 different locations in southern Turkey. so far, three people have died, hundreds of animals have perished and several settlements are being evacuated.

A WHOLE country is on fire please that is not something you can underestimate.

please use your voice for us.

please dont stay in silence.

YOU CAN READ THIS THREAD FOR MORE INFORMATION

TWITTER TAGS

#TürkiyeYanıyor

#PrayforTurkey

SIGN THE PETITION

HOW TO HELP

You can deposit your cash donations by typing “MANAVGAT YARDIM” in the explanation section, to the account numbered Adalya Health Education and Culture Foundation, Vakıf Bank Lara Branch (TL) IBAN: TR22 0001 5001 5800 7273 6305 85.

(USD) Iban No: TR02 0001 5001 5804 8019 7521 30

(EURO) Iban No: TR83 0001 5001 5804 8019 7521 27

ALSO YOU CAN ADOPT SAPLINGS IT IS FREE !!

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Aid for German Flood Victims

Parts of Western Germany have been hit with a historical flood that has caused widespread destruction and as of now (Thursday, July 15 2021) has cost 58 lives. (source, source, source)

Here’s a couple links to places where you can donate. These will be in German, so make sure you have a translating tool at hand.

Diakonie Wuppertal (social welfare, victim aid)

Gemeinschaftsstiftung Wuppertal (social welfare, victim aid)

Deutsche Lebensrettergesellschaft (German Lifeguard Society, buy equipment for helpers)

Heimatcrowd Iserlohn-Lasbeck und Nachrodt-Wiblingwerde (community mutual aid)

Technisches Hilfwerk (Federal Agency for Technical Relief, a disaster relief organisation; donations here go to them at large, not only flood victims)

Aktion Deutschland hilft (mutual aid, helpers and victims)

Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (German Red Cross; not the same as the US Red Cross and considerably less shitty; donations for helpers)

I pulled all of these from official news websites, so they should be legit. I will add to this post if I come across more resources.

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so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

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👁‍🗨 Strongest Duo GIVEAWAY! We’re giving away a free zine plus the digital bundle to one lucky winner! If said winner has already purchased a bundle, they will be refunded the cost of the prize ($28 + shipping). Winner will be chosen randomly on July 28th. Rules below! 🐉

📣 RULES:

- Up to 3 entries per person! Like and reblog this post for one; retweet and tag a friend in the replies on Twitter for another; tag a friend in the comments on Instagram for a 3rd

- One winner will RANDOMLY be drawn from all entries across all platforms

Good luck! ✨

SHOP - TWITTER - INSTAGRAM - CARRD

Tags: @anizines, @atozines, @faneventshub, @fanzinewatch, @fandomzines, @zineapps, @zinefeed, @zineforall, @zinesunlimited, @zines-for-writers, @zinefans, @zinecenter

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you know how sometimes you don’t initially read a comic panel the way the author intended?

well.

also, free nightmares

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I’m sorry for disturbing your day, your dash, but I’ve not seen any posts about it, and I had to make one because it’s important! It’s not new, since you know about the camps going on in China, but people are not taking notice of it, people are not talking about it, when they should be. Uyghurs are bleeding! And they need us, they need our help, there are petitions and donations links out there, and it will be so helpful if you take notice of it, and if you talk about it because it’s racism, and if you don’t, you are not anti-racist or an activist.

https://uyghurs.carrd.co/

https://savetheuighurs.carrd.co/

https://hearuyghurs.carrd.co/

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14wXj1bC1xB8YBCAkhwuKHz0hm6VQ25qnlWTU4T4u4wA/edit?usp=sharing

please, signal boost, and sign any petition that is out there, and donate...please donate if you can!!

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Reblog In 5 seconds for good luck

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Luffy being the gosh darned cutest thing on the planet. 

Enjoy dis baby child.

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Reblog if you are 100% okay with a transgender person correcting you if you accidentally misgender them or use their dead name.

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Hello, hope all of you are safe and doing well.

You may have heard of what happened in Lebanon today and if not, basically, there was a big explosion in Beirut that affected many cities, destroyed shops, homes, cars, caused many injuries and deaths. The cause is uncertain.

As a fellow lebanese myself (that also lives there), today was absolutely terrifying, probably the scariest moments of my life. We heard a deafening sound as the floors were shaking. Some of us thought it was an attack, others thought it was an earthquake. As soon as it ended many expected a second one, which luckily never happened.

Here's a video of what happened that was sent to me, there are also many others that you can find online.

Windows were broken, doors wrecked, cars flipped over, buildings collapsed, people hit by flying or falling objects, and unfortunately, many didn't make it out alive.

We were one of the lucky ones, our families and friends were all safe and our homes were fine.

Some people couldn't even get out of the crumbling builings, so we saw corpses being pulled out, although some people survived the crash. But wherever we looked, there was blood, poeple were half covered in it, their shirts, pants, hair, everything. And that sight was traumatizing.

We watched the news with elders severely injured, children with blood-spattered shirts and people in pain that couldn't get in the hospitals because they were full.

Some people are missing. Just try to imagine the pain and fear their families and friends are feeling.

Articles about what happened, there are a lot more

Not only are we in the middle of a pandemic, but Lebanon is also going through a very serious economical crisis. To give you an example, before, $1 equaled 1 500 lebanese pounds. Nowadays, $1 equals more than 7 000 lebanese pounds. Not to mention that we obviously don't have any dollars at disposition, so yeah we're fucked.

People are hungry, homeless, unemployed. And even if they are getting paid, it'll be useless since the prices of everything went up because they were affected by the economical fiasco.

Important additional information

Today, I heard my 7 year old cousins scream in fear that they were going to die. I saw my aunt shaking, worried that her children won't survive. I saw my dad freak out while trying to reassure us when we both knew that we were uncertain about the next minutes of our lives. I heard the panic in the trembling voices of my family and friends as they couldn't believe what had just happened. I thought my loved ones and I were going to die in the next seconds.

I'm never forgetting those moments and feelings.

I don't think signing petitions will help, i don't even know if the following links will help either, I just know Lebanon and it's people are desperate for anything because the future of this country is extremely uncertain.

https://helplebanonnow.carrd.co/

https://lebanoncrisis.carrd.co/

https://www.gofundme.com/f/lebanonneedsorg?utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link

https://helplebanon.carrd.co/

http://redcross.org.lb/SubPage.aspx?pageid=1370&PID=158

http://www.caritas.org.lb/get_involved/donate

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/lebanon-relief?utm_term=PYp7gXzyD

I think donating to the red cross would be the most helpful, so if you are considering it, it'd be great.

There are so many great threads on twitter about what you can do to help, just search help lebanon or something to find them. Also if you can, please donate, and as I said, the lebanese pound is pretty much worthless currently so USD is way more useful to us.

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tw// explosion

Hello, hope all of you are safe and doing well.

You may have heard of what happened in Lebanon today and if not, basically, there was a big explosion in Beirut that affected many cities, destroyed shops, homes, cars, caused many injuries and deaths. The cause is uncertain.

As a fellow lebanese myself (that also lives there), today was absolutely terrifying, probably the scariest moments of my life. We heard a deafening sound as the floors were shaking. Some of us thought it was an attack, others thought it was an earthquake. As soon as it ended many expected a second one, which luckily never happened.

Here's a video of what happened that was sent to me, there are also many others that you can find online.

Windows were broken, doors wrecked, cars flipped over, buildings collapsed, people hit by flying or falling objects, and unfortunately, many didn't make it out alive.

We were one of the lucky ones, our families and friends were all safe and our homes were fine.

Some people couldn't even get out of the crumbling builings, so we saw corpses being pulled out, although some people survived the crash. But wherever we looked, there was blood, poeple were half covered in it, their shirts, pants, hair, everything. And that sight was traumatizing.

We watched the news with elders severely injured, children with blood-spattered shirts and people in pain that couldn't get in the hospitals because they were full.

Some people are missing. Just try to imagine the pain and fear their families and friends are feeling.

Articles about what happened, there are a lot more

Not only are we in the middle of a pandemic, but Lebanon is also going through a very serious economical crisis. To give you an example, before, $1 equaled 1 500 lebanese pounds. Nowadays, $1 equals more than 7 000 lebanese pounds. Not to mention that we obviously don't have any dollars at disposition, so yeah we're fucked.

People are hungry, homeless, unemployed. And even if they are getting paid, it'll be useless since the prices of everything went up because they were affected by the economical fiasco.

Important additional information

Today, I heard my 7 year old cousins scream in fear that they were going to die. I saw my aunt shaking, worried that her children won't survive. I saw my dad freak out while trying to reassure us when we both knew that we were uncertain about the next minutes of our lives. I heard the panic in the trembling voices of my family and friends as they couldn't believe what had just happened. I thought my loved ones and I were going to die in the next seconds.

I'm never forgetting those moments and feelings.

I don't think signing petitions will help, i don't even know if the following links will help either, I just know Lebanon and it's people are desperate for anything because the future of this country is extremely uncertain.

https://helplebanonnow.carrd.co/

https://lebanoncrisis.carrd.co/

https://www.gofundme.com/f/lebanonneedsorg?utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link

https://helplebanon.carrd.co/

http://redcross.org.lb/SubPage.aspx?pageid=1370&PID=158

http://www.caritas.org.lb/get_involved/donate

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/lebanon-relief?utm_term=PYp7gXzyD

I think donating to the red cross would be the most helpful, so if you are considering it, it'd be great.

There are so many great threads on twitter about what you can do to help, just search help lebanon or something to find them. Also if you can, please donate, and as I said, the lebanese pound is pretty much worthless currently so USD is way more useful to us.

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how to help yemen

this is the worst humanitarian crisis in the world

         - also let me know i anything is inaccurate so i can quickly make some changes and educate myself further! 

What is happening in Yemen?

This is the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. There are Yemeni children that still trapped in Yemen that aren’t getting the resources that they need. Not only are they trapped in Yemen, but they are also dealing with COVID-19. Sanitation and clean water supplies are in short supply. 

How did the war start? for context

The roots started in Spring 2011, an uprising forced the long-time authoritarian president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, to hand over his position to his deputy, Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi. It was supposed to be a new era for peace but instead, president Hadi struggled with militant attacks, corruption, food insecurity, and loyalty to Saleh. 

The fighting began in 2014 when the Houthi Shia Muslim rebel movement took advantage of the new president’s weakness and took control of the norther Saada province and areas around it. The Houthis went to take the capiatl of Sanaa, forcing Hadi into exile abroad.

It escalated dramatically in March 2015 when Saudi Arabia and eight other mostly Sunni Arab states - alongside with US, UK, and France, began air strikes against the Houthis, with the intention of restoring Hadi’s government.

The Saudi-led coalition feared that the continued success of the Houthis would give their rivals more regional power, and Iran a foothold in Yemen. The Houthis broke with Saleh and was killed by Houthi fighters in December of 2017. On the anti-Houthi side, militias include separatists seeking independence for south Yemen and factions who oppose the idea.

The stalemate has produced an unrelenting humanitarian crisis, with at least 8.4 million people at the risk of starvation. 22.2 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance. Sever acute malnutrition is threatening the lives of almost 400,000 children under the age of five.

Not only has Yemen’s health system collapsed, but the world’s largest cholera outbreak has killed thousands, even more so now with the recent COVID-19 outbreaks. 

In June 2018, the Saudi-backed government forces began an assault on the key rebel-held port of Hudaydah, the entry point for the vast majority of aid going into Yemen and a lifeline for those who are starving. 

SOME FACTS AND FIGURES:

24 million are in need of humanitarian assistance

20.1 million people are food insecure

19.7 million people are in need of basic healthcare

17.8 million people are in need of water and sanitation

3 million are acutely malnourished children, pregnant, or lactating women

3.3 million people are internally displaced people

COVID-19 cases increased by 325% in over a week with an alarming fatality rate of 15.9%

Aid agencies are scaling up the response on the basis that community transmission of COVID-19 is taking place across the country

WHERE YOU CAN DONATE:

https://www.unicefusa.org/mission/emergencies/child-refugees/crisis-in-yemen?form=donate

https://www.rescue.org/country/yemen

https://www.projecthope.org/crisis-in-yemen/09/2019/

https://baitulmaal.org/yemen-crisis/

https://u4h.org.uk/yemen-food-appeal

https://www.islamic-relief.org.uk/yemen-emergency-appeal/

PETITIONS: it takes less than ten minutes to sign all of these petitions. ALSO DO NOT DONATE TO CHANGE

stop the war and end the famine in yemen

force white house vote on saudi war, cholera, and famine

stop the flow of weapons to yemen

urge the us to stop deaths by starvation

end hunger in yemen

salam for yemen

save yemen from extinction!

justice for yemen

famine/genocide in yemen

compassion and action for yemen crisis refugees

start the peace talks and end the war

support wfp’s hunger relief mission in yemen

WANT TO LEARN MORE?:

https://www.unicef.org/emergencies/yemen-crisis

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29319423#:~:text=The%20UN%20says%20Yemen%20is,years%20if%20the%20war%20continues&text=The%20UN%20had%20verified%20the,death%20toll%20is%20far%20higher.

https://yemencrisis.carrd.co/

the crisis in yemen: a youtube playlist

https://linktr.ee/helpsaveyemen

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stop what you’re doing and look at Luffy’s lil blush from the cold

okay you can now proceed

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If you have asthma, do not go protesting. Tear gas can be lethal to people with asthma because not only is the powder it's made of toxic and causes burns, but for us it triggers painful and severe asthma attacks that can lead to death. I did not know this going into the protest and later read about protestors with asthma who died after getting hit with tear gas. I'm lucky to be alive. Please share this and take care of yourselves.