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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Comment by ♥ Sara ♥ Raleiah ♥ on May 19, 2009 at 4:08pm: CHère Denise,
je suis si heuruse que l'opération se soit si bien passée...
Merci pour tout ce que tu as fais (je sais que c'a n'a pas été facile)!!!

Love, Light
<3 <3 <3

Sara

Comment by Mohammed on May 19, 2009 at 4:00pm: Hi my Dear friends,
I want to tell you good news, little Sara operated yesterday, and the operation was successful.
I want now to send big thanks to my very dear friend Denise Jacobs from France who made big efforts to help Sara.
I am sure she was very busy since more than 5 weeks in Sara status, and that proof to me and to Sara's family that she is a wonderful woman.
Denise is a special woman because she is the only one who helped Sara, and others have only words.
Most of people I talked to them before didn't try to gave any help, but they speek all the time and just speek without doing any thing.
So I want to thank my friend Denise for her help, and I promise her that I will not forget what she did for little Sara in all my life.
and also Sara's family will not forget that, So we will remember Denise because she live now in deep of our hearts.

and I want to send big thanks to Charlotte, Jaqueline, Selvia, Damien and other people from France who helped us, and I believe they dont write on internet, but I believe they have a lot of activity to help people.

and I want to say to Luisela about her comment on facebook, if she look to the tome of my comment she will know that I tried to help Sara to cover the plane tickets before someone covered them later, and when they covered, I wrote comment and told my friend that.

If Some one want to help he can do something not write and speek all the time.

Good luck Denise and have a great lfe full of love and peace.

My logo in this life now ( if you want to help you must work not to speek ) because I know someone called Denise :)

Comment by F.J Lopez De La Serna on May 19, 2009 at 1:01am

Comment by Majed Abusalama on May 19, 2009 at 12:52am: I hope for sara , the best wishes and healthy . now as we spoke before, the future of sara have to be different. and now she can look at the future .
thanks my friend denise and all my friends in Ipeace who support our issues. if we have the right , you have to believe in it, we believe after 61 years of nakba, we believe in the right of return to our houses . like sara , sara ,she is refugees from the refugees camp which they suffer alot during the war and they still suffer untill now from the siege, the peace is our future, iam dreamer of peace .
with Hope
majed abusalama
Gaza

Comment by luisella valeri on May 18, 2009 at 4:55pm: We are awaiting good notice about Sara...and we are praying for the best!
Hope this voyage may be saveful for her little life! May she 'll grow well and understand the importance to became a very good children surgeon in Gaza, wothout the need to go foreign to have safe the life! Women in Gaza will become the best in their society for the common good! Little Sara, go, you may have in the future a beautiful and important mission...a mission of peace!

Comment by Basem on May 18, 2009 at 4:28pm: Thank you very much Denise jacobs Everything

Comment by Beatrice LATEUR LACROIX on May 16, 2009 at 10:19pm: Dear Bassam,
My sweestest prayers for Sara and all your family.
With my Love.

Comment by Basem on May 16, 2009 at 6:41pm: Thank you very much

Comment by Irit Hakim-Keller on May 16, 2009 at 6:17pm: Dear Basem,
Sara and her family are in my heart. I hope the operation goes ok and that recovery will be completed soon so Sara will be able to come back to you safely.
Much love and best regards
Irit

Comment by Basem on May 16, 2009 at 6:13pm: Yes, for a better life for children of Gaza and the children in the world
The children of Gaza need peace, love and safety
Before the money and food for a better life