Aid to the Children of Gaza

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This group's purpose is to organize and mobilize aid (food, clothing, medicine) and raise money for the children of Gaza

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This group's purpose is to organize and mobilize aid (food, clothing, medicine) and raise money for the children of Gaza.

This is an action group. Your donation and contribution is welcome.

First step - INVITE ALL YOUR FRIENDS TO THIS GROUP

Please join our Facebook Cause Aid to Gaza children

In facebook, where we are raising money, the beneficiary is currently MERCY CORPS a 501(c)(3) nonprofit

In 25 years of experience on the ground, Mercy Corps has learned that communities recovering from war or social upheaval must be the agents of their own transformation for change to endure. It's only when communities set their own agendas, raise their own resources, and implement programs themselves, that their first successes result in the renewed hope, confidence and skills to continue development independently.

Description: Since 1979, Mercy Corps has provided $1 billion in assistance to people in 82 nations. Supported by headquarters offices in North America, Europe, and Asia, the agency's unified global programs employ 2,700 staff worldwide and reach nearly 10 million people in more than 40 countries.

Mercy Corps pursues its mission through emergency relief services that assist people afflicted by conflict or disaster; through sustainable community development that integrates agriculture, health, housing and infrastructure, economic development, education and environment, and local management; and through civil society initiatives that promote citizen participation, accountability, conflict management, and the rule of law.

Wish to help the Children of Gaza?

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Please. No pictures. No propaganda. We know how grave the situation is and don't need to be reminded. (Please adhere to our guidelines) This is a focused action group. There's plenty space for posting your feelings, opinions and views about the war in iPeace, but not here. Please limit your comments here to the challenge at hand. Any other comment will be deleted

Make money donations HERE

A letter from Mercy Corp:

Thank you so much for thinking of Mercy Corps for your donations.

First of all, if your cause does choose to give the donations to Mercy Corps, I can assure you that all of that money will go to our programs in Gaza. We keep track of the individual causes that donate to Mercy Corps via Facebook to ensure that all funds go to the appropriate programs.

That being said, the majority of Mercy Corps' Gaza recovery programs target children. Our staff on the ground has found that the psychological toll on civilians, particularly children, has been enormous. Mercy Corps is in the process of transforming our psychosocial programs to address the specific needs of Gazan youth.

Currently, we are also working to help families with damaged homes to gain access to clean water and better shelter. We continue our work to distribute emergency relief items to 100,000 Gazans in need, but have shifted our focus to helping civilians rebuild their lives in the long term. In total, Mercy Corps has raised more than $2 million and secured $500K worth of material goods to support our efforts.

All of our Gazan recovery programs help children directly through the rebuilding of schools, food, shelter, and psychosocial programs -- or indirectly by helping parents rebuild homes and livelihoods.

Many thanks for thinking of us for your donations. Please let me know if I can answer any additional questions for you. Also, you can check out the latest Mercy Corps Gaza updates here: http://www.mercycorps.org/gazacrisis/

Leah Hazard

Internet Marketing Associate
Mercy Corps

www.mercycorps.org

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Support the children of Gaza and peace in the Middle East. This beautiful design is from iPeace. $6 per T-shirt purchased will go to Mercy Corp's emergency humanitarian mission in Gaza.

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Comment by Beatrice LATEUR LACROIX on March 20, 2009 at 12:04pm: Marvelous ! We are happy for the children in Gaza and ... my children will be so happy when they will came back home this evening !
Thanks again and again, Denise.

Comment by Beatrice LATEUR LACROIX on March 20, 2009 at 12:02pm: I'm sure you do what you do, Denise. It's so obvious your heart is hudge.
have a great day and thanks again for your actions and for the loving person you are.
love and Peace.

Comment by Beatrice LATEUR LACROIX on March 20, 2009 at 11:36am: Thank you Denise. I don't want to take your time or Majed's one. I do know you are very busy.
I sent the parcel to AL MAKASSED HOSPITAL RAIED AMRO MOUNT OF OLIVES P.O. BOX 19482 JERUSALEM.
I hope the children in Gaza will received all the parcels people send them all around the world.
Thank you for beeing so active.
Love and peace.

Comment by Beatrice LATEUR LACROIX on March 20, 2009 at 11:07am: I wonder if the parcel I sent from France several weeks ago is arrived. If you have time, let me know, please. It will be a great pleasure for my children to know children in Gaza receiced things to draw and our cakes.
Love and Peace.

Comment by Joanna Zilsel on March 20, 2009 at 8:46am: Hello wonderful friends,
I returned from Gaza a few days ago. It was an incredible experience. I posted a fairly long (and I'm afraid rambling) note on the Palestine-Israel Peace group just now, so you can read it if you want.

I just want to say here that I know that everything you send to Gaza--the cards, clothing, toys--everything is desperately needed and very very very much appreciated. I brought some things which I gave to Majed to distribute, and the CODEPINK delegation also brought 2000 gift baskets which we gave out at women and children's centers on international women's day.

We saw utter devastation all up and down the Gaza strip--schools, hospitals, goverment buildings, whole neighbourhoods of houses completely flattened by bombs. People are living in the rubble, in tents, or the lucky ones have moved in with family members temporarily. We need to urge our politicians to demand that Israel lift the cruel seige that has kept Gaza isolated for almost 2 years now. They urgently need supplies so that they can begin to rebuild their lives.

Thanks for all your absolutely amazing work! I felt your wonderful support the whole time I was in Gaza.

peace, salaam, shalom,
Joanna

Comment by maryse on March 20, 2009 at 3:52am: Just wondering if Raied received the parcel from Japan, It was sent ems and was supposed to arrive this week. hope it gets there, it is full of origami and dream pillows. I sent it to Jerusalem Al Makaseed Hospital, so I think it should get there....If anybody heres about it let me know...

Comment by luisella valeri on March 20, 2009 at 12:00am: Thanks to Denise and to Myron!
Tomorrow I write to you for the Children Human Rights books translated in arab and in Hebrew. Thanks dear friends!
A good notice: from Italy is coming to Gaza an Italian woman for work about children Human Rights with an European Volunteer project and with an Italian ONG Educaid. She pass the border from Eretz in the first days of Avril.
She is going to Majed and she will stay in Gaza for five months!
Smiles Luisella

Comment by myron joshua on March 15, 2009 at 12:03pm: Luisella,

i am getting a few Hebrew UNICEF books sent out to me now. I can forward them for you to your Sderot contact.

Be in touch!
myron

Comment by Majed Abusalama on March 13, 2009 at 10:03pm: Dear all my friends here in this very fantastic network for peace,

you alot of people speak and do alot of things, i want to thanks all my friends , here , i love you all ,iam waiting alot from all of you, i distributed the messeges from denise to the children in Gaza and they send to you denise alot of kisses.
my mother luisella , just want to tell you yes you are mother for all the palestinian, i love you so much.

now iam working now with italian delegation, they are sychohycal doctors and they did alot of things for Gaza, the italian is so lovely.
after three day 4 continers from the Aid and medical will arrive Gaza and i will distribute it with italian people. and more else i will speak about it

myron , joawana fromm Canada , thanks for comeing with code pink and thanks for the aid for the children i distributed it yesterday,

the Hope is coming from all our friends in Ipeace.

yes we need you , and thanks

majed abusalama
Gaza

Comment by luisella valeri on March 13, 2009 at 5:30pm: Yes, just the photocopy of one with also the arab test! Is better have Majed. With the photocopy I try to see the differences with Italian books (they are selling). I write to you in private. Thanks!