24 December update on the Hope Giving Circle: A message of hope & send a last minute gift to your loved ones
🤝🏾 Latest impact: Rent and continued newborn support for single mom Mai, winter supplies & emergency healthcare for multiple people, and a water well for a community in north Gaza.
🚨 Next needs: Six health emergencies, and costs for medicine and hospital care remain high; families in tents as the rain and cold endangers children.
⚠️ Giving update: We're up to 210 members of the giving circle, who cover 62% of the families' baseline needs per week. Donations are down 50% since the start of the ceasefire. The best way to give is by clicking "weekly" or "monthly" on your donation.
🎁 Donate as a last-minute Christmas gift on behalf of a loved one: https://form.jotform.com/253507695027058
🎁 Trade in your receipt in our "shop": https://form.jotform.com/242767121235352
❓ Our FAQ is updated! Find it + our toolkit here: https://linktr.ee/hopegivingcircle
We're wishing you safety and solidarity in this holiday season. I share some words from Rev Munther Isaac's 2024 Christmas sermon, "Christ is Still in the Rubble" as Bethlehem continues to face ongoing settler colonial violence: "We cannot be content. We have to fight against the growing apathy. We must not rest or grow weary."
–Divya
p.s. I share a barn swallow as we endeavor to stand with displaced single mothers and babies in Palestine during this holiday season, something that shouldn't just malinger in metaphor this Christmas.
