The Sameer Project
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A donations based aid initiative, led by Palestinians , working to supply emergency shelter and aid to displaced families in Gaza. Collab with @translatingpal.
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Summer is here and it’s really hot in Gaza reaching 30 degrees Celsius / 86 Fahrenheit. Now imagine that being a sick patient in a tent. Help now: That’s the case for many of the families in The Sameer Project camps and many cases get seizures due to the heat. We have multiple solar panels in our camps but they can’t provide fans for everyone, so our medical team assessed those most in need. The Sameer Project needs your support in purchasing fans for the families and money to fix some fans we already have. A fan approximately costs $525 for a new one (if found) and $280 for a used one. That’s aside from the prices for keeping the fans running. Please donate now to the Refaat Alareer Campaign to help us buy fans: Other ways to donate include: (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "Camp") (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "Camp")
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Every day Palestinians in Gaza think about where to get food from, where to find water - but few think about the men who wake up every day to clean the streets, remove garbage, and prevent disease from spreading in a place where the occupation has systematically destroyed sanitation infrastructure and waste management systems. Donate now: Their work is exhausting. The piles of waste grow larger, resources are scarce, and the conditions become more dangerous by the day. Yet they continue because they believe that cleanliness is part of faith, part of dignity, and part of caring for their community. These sanitation workers are often unseen and rarely thanked. But Gaza would not function without them. As part of our Eid meat distribution in Gaza City, Translating Falasteen x The Sameer Project made sure to visit and honor the sanitation crews who continue serving their people under impossible circumstances. Alongside the distribution of 200 kilograms of meat, we wanted to recognize the dedication, sacrifice, and humanity of those who work tirelessly to keep their neighborhoods clean and livable. The full 200 kilograms of meat distributed cost $3,257 after fees and commissions. These workers preserve dignity, protecting public health, and continuing to serve our people despite all obstacles. Give them a thanks in the comments and continent to donate to our Food and Water Campaign: Other ways to donate include: (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "Food") (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "Food")
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"I send a message to the whole world to stand by me and every Palestinian hostage" Imagine losing a leg and then getting imprisoned and then losing your eyesight. That’s what happened to Mahmoud Abu Foul at the age of 28. He was abducted from Kamal Adwan hospital on December 27th and endured 8 months of brutal torture, beatings and humiliation. Mahmoud like many other returned hostages isn’t getting the proper medical care and can’t get a prosthetic leg as it is not available in Gaza. Borders need to open for doctors and field hospitals to provide adequate treatment. Till then, The Sameer Project are providing medical care through our Sawarha medical point and medical treatment camp to Mahmoud and others like him. Meanwhile, we gave Mahmoud dressings and medications worth $68 and cash aid. We are looking to support the released hostages with medical and mental health care. Please support and donate to the medical campaign through our Chuffed link: Other ways to donate include: (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "Medical") (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "Medical")
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This Tuesday is going to be the hottest day yet since last summer. HELP: This means long lines for water, dehydration, thirst, and alot of people coming back to their tents empty handed, empty containers, because water trucks will have run out. Translating Falasteen x The Sameer Project needs you monetary solidarity to keep up with the demand. On May 1 we provided 317,000 to neighborhoods in the North - help us keep this up… Contribute to the Food and Water fundraising campaign in our bio to help us get ready for these hot summer months. Other ways to donate include: (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "Water") (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "Water")
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A big challenge that Palestinians in Gaza face is the lack of hygiene products forcing them to use water from the sea and sand to wash their plates and clothes. HELP: The salty sea water that is full of sewage … Most people can’t afford to buy hygiene products as they are trying to survive and purchase food and water. This is why at The Sameer Project, we regularly provide hygiene packages to underserved displacement camps. On April 12th, The Sameer Project gave the Manshia Camp 43 hygiene packages with a broom, shampoo, detergent, washing liquid and more. Total cost was $1,614, including 11% commission that is used to get money into Gaza. Support our Shelter, Goods & Activities Campaign today. Other ways to donate include: (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "Goods") (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "Goods")
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Our team occasionally send us videos of specific tough cases and this one broke our hearts. A single mom with her mentally ill mother and three children, with no shelter or any basic needs provided. Support her case here: With a pack of diapers costing over $28 and a can of milk costing $11, families like this can’t afford to cover the basics for their baby. In addition, people with mental illness struggle a lot in the genocide with no care or support provided. Unfortunately, families like these are invisible to large organizations and supporters through social media. In the famine, the first people who pay the price are these invisible families with no access to any support or/and who suffer from chronic illnesses / mental illnesses, and/or those pregnant or with babies, etc. We will provide support to this family and other families in similar situations. Please donate to the South campaign to support such cases: Other ways to donate include: (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "South aid") (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "South aid")
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It was the last few days of Ramadan. Families had plans to gather and celebrate, but the ceasefire abruptly and violently ended a week prior. This is when 14 year old Hassan was injured with stray shrapnel that pierced through his skull and into his brain and eye. Help with his care: Hassan’s treatment is not available in Gaza. Like so many others he awaits evacuation with a referral report grading his condition as “emergency.” But with ongoing evacuation orders and incessant bombings it’s been weeks since the last medical evacuation, and the World Health Organization has yet to contact Hassan regarding treatment abroad. Hassan and his family have been living at our Refaat Alareer Camp and receiving medical treatment including physiotherapy, wound cleaning, and symptom management for his eye. He has seen specialists at every hospital in the North and the South and The Sameer Project team is doing everything to keep him calm and comfortable and manage his pain. Medical evacuations are nuanced, rare, and so difficult. We need to allow patients to receive lifesaving care outside of Gaza’s destroyed medical system. In the meantime The Sameer Project continues to support many of these patients who are waiting, who are suffering. Help us by contributing to the Camp link. Other ways to donate include: (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "Camp") (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "Camp")
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🚨🚨 Unfortunately, The Sameer Project took the decision today to close our kitchen a few days a week because we are not getting enough funding. The 3,000 sandwiches we make cost around $8,500 to $9,000 per day and that’s the amount we are getting across all campaigns. Our hearts ache as we make this announcement but there’s no other option 🚨🚨 Urgent support needed: Taghreed lives in Asdqa Camp in Deir El Balah, a camp that we support regularly, and she talks about her daily struggles and the risks she took to keep her kids alive. Including risking her life to go get food during the famine. Taghreed and her family are one of many that we support through our community kitchen. On May 2nd, the Translating Falasteen x The Sameer Project gave out 885 liver sandwiches in Asdqa Camp, Asqalan area, Central Gaza. Total cost with 11% commission was $2,104. The Sameer Project team is extremely sad about lowering our food production. Most community kitchens provide lentils and plain pasta that many people in camps through away. We pride ourselves in providing high quality tasty nutritious food and pray that donations pick up again so we can get back to distributing at maximum capacity. Donate to the Food & Water Campaign today: Other ways to donate include: (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "Water") (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "Water")
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Remember the sweet boy with a big smile. The Sameer Project team in the South got him and his family a tent and mattresses thanks to your generous support. Donate here: Khan Younis is now no longer accessible to the Sameer Project team due to the displacement map release today dividing the South from the Central area. This is disastrous as around half a million people are trapped in Khan Younis. For the time being, the Sameer Project will set up tents in the Central area where a lot of displaced people are with no shelter or tents in bad condition. Each tent costs $384 with 7% commission. Please donate to the South campaign for more tent distributions: Other ways to donate include: (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "South aid") (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "South aid")
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For weeks now, The Sameer Project has been working on building a new desalination plant to provide a new source of clean water for Palestinians in Gaza. This will help us save money and have a new source of fresh water. Contribute here: Watch our incredible team at The Sameer Project working with the engineers and workers to make magic happen despite all the obstacles. This project is costing us around $200,000 but we will be able to provide 250,000 to 300,000 liters per day for a maximum of $2,000 - instead of the current $4,500 we pay for the same amount. The Sameer Project will save more than 50% of the cost of water distribution per day. So in around two and a half months of operating the desalination plant, we would’ve saved $200,000. This will allow us to use your donations to provide even MORE aid. We are at the last stretch and need around $50,000 to complete the desalination plant. Donate today to the Rebuild Gaza Campaign: Other ways to donate include: (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "Rebuild") (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "Rebuild")
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On the last day of Ramadan, the team ended the holy month with the incredible achievement of providing 1,000 meals in one day! The meals were distributed to different camps in Mawasi Khan Younis including: 200 to Farouq camp, 250 to Mothaboon camp, 150 to Abdulal camp, 200 to Abu Nasr camp, 70 to Batoul camp and 70 to Refaat Alareer camp in Zawayde as well as 60 meals randomly distributed on the street. This campaign was done with 8% commission only so each meal cost around $4.4 and the thousand meals cost $4,418. The Ramadan campaign will close tomorrow as people are donating their Zakat Fitr. Thank you for supporting us in providing water & food during this tough time.
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As a parent what would you do if you couldn’t feed your children? Watching them starve, crying for food, as your own empty stomach gnaws at you. HELP: Children in Gaza are still malnourished, still starving, a famine still underway. Aid trucks are still just trickling in, no where near as many as necessary to feed a besieged population. The Sameer Project team visited Preparatory School C in Deir al-Balah area to deliver meals to the entire school that was transformed into a family shelter. We distributed 500 spiced rice meals with vegetables, each one costing a little less than $6. The entire sheltered distribution on September 21 cost $3,199. Every donation, any amount, has an impact. For just $6 you can help a parent feed their children, fending off starvation for another day. Donate to the South Campaign to give food. Other ways to donate include: (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "South aid") (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "South aid")
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Together Reviving Gaza (Reviving Gaza) and the Sameer Project worked on providing much needed nutritious food to Nasser hospital. For two days in a row, 400 kilograms of potatoes were distributed to the patients in the hospital on each day. The initiative done on August 8th and August 10th cost overall $19,616 with 10% commission. Each kilo of potatoes with commission cost $21.55 so the 800 kilos of potatoes alone cost $17,240 and the rest was paid for labor, transport and cooking costs. Our focus on hospitals is due to the ongoing famine that strongly impacts patients while they are trying to heal. The lack of nourishing food prolongs the illness and makes their recovery harder. Donate to the South campaign for more hospital support: Other ways to donate include: (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "South aid") (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "South aid")
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Palestinians in Gaza feel forgotten - and they’re right. Donations dropped drastically and the media barely mentions Gaza and when it does it’s censored and full of fake news. Please help today: Palestinians are having fist fights to get bread to eat. Food is too expensive for most people to buy. Many children remain malnourished. The situation is beyond tragic and Palestinians in Gaza are being killed slowly while the world remains silent. The Sameer Project bakery is trying to tackle the bread issue by doing daily distributions in displacement camps. On April 22nd, we gave out 150 bags of bread to Salam Camp and 70 bags to Kanz Camp in Gaza City. 20 bags were distributed to surrounding tents. The 240 bags cost $677, including the 11% commission. For around $3, you provide a family in Gaza with a bag of bread that is enough for a large family for the day or for a small family for two days. During the famine last summer, a bag of bread was a dream - please help us feed Palestinians in Gaza. Donate urgently to the Food & Water Campaign: Other ways to donate include: (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "Food") (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "Food")
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The pediatric department at Nasser Hospital requested our help!! Support: There is a huge influx of patients at the hospital in Khan Younis due to displacements from the North and the number of malnourished and sick babies being born daily. In a 24 hour period, the pediatric ward had 1,000 patients visit with is 10x the usual number. Mothers, babies, children are sprawled out on the hospital floor because of the overcrowding. The Sameer Project responded by delivering 30 mattresses so that the huge number of cases have somewhere to rest and recover. Each mattress cost $75, with the total coming to $2,239 after 11% commission. We are always glad to be able to support the hospitals that are working so hard to take care of patients. Please donate to our Medical Campaign to help us do so: Other ways to donate include: (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "Medical") (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "Medical")
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Send some love to our team who are doing the back breaking work of cleaning up Gaza with nothing more than shovels and brooms. Every day they are going to destroyed buildings and clearing dust and rubble with their bare hands so that families can move back in before the winter months. The occupation has only allowed in a total of 115 “fuel and energy trucks” (meaning diesel, cooking gas, and gasoline), a fraction of the 1,100 trucks that were promised to be allowed in during this period of time post “ceasefire.” These items are an integral part of the clean up as they allow the operation of trucks and tractors that can be used to remove the rubble. By only allowing in 10% of the agreed upon amount they are deliberately obstructing the cleaning out and cleaning up process. Join our “Yalla, Na’merha” initiative under our Return Home Campaign to help the Translating Falasteen x The Sameer Project teams help make buildings habitable and allow families to move back home. We need donations to cover labor, fuel for tractors, tarps to repair the walls of buildings, transportation fees to relocate people North, and more. The link for the Return Home Campaign. Other ways to donate include: (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "Return") (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "Return")
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We built a water pipeline!! Some people are not able to go to the water, so we made the water come to them! People have to walk miles each way to fetch jerrycans of water and carry them back the same distance in the heat. The elderly, the injured, women and children have a difficult time doing this every day in order to get this life sustaining essential. Translating Falasteen (Translating Falasteen (Palestine) ) x The Sameer Project constructed a water pipeline extension for Ansar Camp 12 (Al-Awfiaa) in the al-Katiba area of al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City. On August 24 the piping was installed including the hose, connectors, plastic elbows, and head that allows barrels to be filled for people in the camp. In all the materials and wages were paid via bank transfer at 11% for a total of $826. Going out to get water is risky. There have been attacks on children just waiting in line to ensure their family’s survival. This project allows people to walk just feet to collect water. Support the North Campaign to help. Other ways to donate include: (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "North aid") (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "North aid")
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We had 35 water trucks, varying in sizes from 3,000 liters to 15,000 liters, dispatch in one day!! Water, a fundamental human right under international law, is being withheld and weaponized to make the population in the North suffer. We are trying to provide even more water each and every day to alleviate some of this misery. On September 2, Translating Falasteen (Translating Falasteen (Palestine)) x The Sameer Project supplied 221,000 liters of drinking water to… Gaza City: • al-Sahaba in al-Daraj – 3,000 liters • al-Yarmouk area in al-Daraj – 3,000 liters • al-Tabien camp in al-Daraj – 3,000 liters • al-Samer area in al-Daraj – 3,000 liters • al-Mustaqbal School area in al-Samer – 6,000 liters • al-Taawon Camp in al-Daraj – 6,000 liters • Yaffa Street in al-Daraj – 6,000 liters • al-Maznaz area in al-Nasr – 6,000 liters • Carrefour in Tal Al Hawa – 5,000 liters • al-Samer junction in al-Samer – 5,000 liters • al-Barbari station in Tal Al Hawa – 5,000 liters • Council of Ministers area in Tal Al Hawa – 30,000 liters (Truck 1: 15,000, Truck 2: 15,000) • Al-Ghorfa al-Tijariyya area in al-Samer – 7,000 liters • Souq Firas in al-Samer – 5,000 liters • Jisr al-Amal Camp in Tal Al Hawa – 5,000 liters • Al Quds Hospital area in Tal Al Hawa – 20,000 liters (Truck 1: 15,000, Truck 2: 5,000) • Al-Rayyes area in Tal Al Hawa – 5,000 liters • Dawwar Al Malia in Tal Al Hawa – 15,000 liters • Public Service area in al-Samer – 7,000 liters • Sheikh Radwan – 12,000 liters (Truck 1: 6,000, Truck 2: 6,000) • al-Nasr neighborhood – 12,000 liters (Truck 1: 6,000, Truck 2: 6,000) • al-Rimal neighborhood – 6,000 liters • al-Karama area – 6,000 liters • al-Mukhabarat Street – 5,000 liters • Ministry of Detainees area – 5,000 liters • al-Nasr Street – 5,000 liters • al-Mushtal camp in al-Daraj – 5,000 liters • al-Emadi area – 5,000 liters • Universities Street – 5,000 liters • Al-Shati’ Refugee Camp – 10,000 liters (Truck 1: 5,000, Truck 2: 5,000) We need your help by supporting our North Campaign. Other ways to donate include: (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "North aid") (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "North aid")
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The journey to getting water can be extremely long and exhausting. In temperatures as high as 30 degrees Celsius/ 86 Fahrenheit, people walk for kilometers to get water. Support: This is why the Sameer Project tries to spread the water distributions as much as possible. On August 24th, we distributed 24,000 liters in Central Gaza. 8,000 liters to Abu Shaban Camp and 8,000 liters to Asqalan camp that are both located in Deir El Balah. And 8,000 liters to Rasheed Camp based in Zawayde. Donate to the South campaign for more water distributions: Other ways to donate include: (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "South aid") (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying “South aid")
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