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.

This organic cotton T-shirt is produced at a sweatshop-free Palestinian owned factory on Virgin Mary Street in Bethlehem, West Bank. The workers are represented by the Palestinian Federation of Trade Unions.

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Comment by myron joshua on March 10, 2009 at 10:28am: Wonderful news..may this be a sign for better times..changing times!!
This is the month that the Prophet Mohammed was born, it is the month of Happiness for Jews...may this be a month, the first of many..of BLESSING AND JOY for all..
For the children on both sides of the border
For their families..
For an end to missiles and reprisals
For the return of captives and abducted to their families
For an end to cynical manipulations
For continued creative action
and actions of love!

Comment by maryse on March 10, 2009 at 9:00am: I have sent all to the hospital in Jerusalem because it was the only adress I had. They will get one box next week full of origami and dream pillows and some color crayons ect... The other two big boxes will take a month to arrive. I have put Majed name on the box as well. It was good fun doing this project and the Japanese people were happy too. Here is a photo of the women making dream pillows
Congradulations to the Italien and English teams who made it in to Gaza......おめでとう

Comment by luisella valeri on March 10, 2009 at 2:20am: Denise, they entered in Gaza:
Italian: Energenza Sanitaria per Gaza, Comitato Medici Liguri per Gaza (Mind and war project) entered 7 march;
English: Viva Palestine! 200 car and 400 persons (! million pounds concretized in material for living), CodePink entered 9 march 15,30 local hour
We all are happy! Majed is happy-busy receiving all Italian and English peoples! Gaza happy! This is love in doing!

Comment by maryse on March 10, 2009 at 1:14am: We had a wonderful festival here in Japan and the children made cards and many people brought origami, pencils and color crayons. The women made dream pillows too. I will send first a box with the paper and herb pillows with a faster post and amother box with the crayons and toys ect...

Comment by clu on March 9, 2009 at 7:59pm: ' />
Produced by Peace Child Israel, 4-minute animated film crystallizes the dilemmas of peace-building in a conflict-zone and the absurd world as seen through the eyes of a young traveler
Ive already contact by messenger with Majed and Joana Zielcel from the group Pink Code !JOANA'S GROUP FINALLY ARRIVED TO GAZA!!!
SO HAPPY FOR THEM!!!I WISH I COULD BE THERE ALSO...!!!

Comment by SCarinhas on March 7, 2009 at 7:00pm: I hope that the Obama Administration do that they are promice: Create a Palestinian Country!!
I've hope that it'll be a reality with Obama!!
That's have HOPE, my dear friends!! :D

Comment by Lea Tomlinson on March 7, 2009 at 10:39am: LINK US

http://crisishelpinternational.ning.com

http://crisishelpinternational/group/sosgaza
http://crisishelpinternational/group/fenixhighschoolsweden

Comment by Majed Abusalama on March 6, 2009 at 7:47pm: ya, today it arrived some messeges to Gaza from denise , thanks you denise for this messeges , very beautiful for the children in Gaza , i will distribute it soon for the children , this the second times to recieve some messeges from france to Gaza , but they allow just for the papers things to come to Gaza and it take four weeks to arrive Gaza.

denise with all the love from the children in Gaza to you , thank you so much for this very beautiful supporting from you .

best wishes

in peace with hope

majed abusalama
photographer journalist, peace activist
socail worker
Palestine
Gaza

Comment by susan chandel on March 6, 2009 at 6:10am: Hey I came here for the code pink update YAY! thank you. I hope that my little package made it to the kids just a handful of art supplies but I hope that it was helpful.

Comment by Beatrice LATEUR LACROIX on February 26, 2009 at 2:15pm: Dear Majed, Angel of Peace,
Thank you for what you are doing in Gazza. Your the best !
Thank you or taking time to send this messae to us
Deeply yours,
Love and peace.