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 maryse on February 20, 2009 at 11:45am: I have a little class of 21 Japanese students in grade 1. They would like to draw pictures and send crayons and pencils ect.... We will try and keep it simple, but the enthusiasm of the children will surely be reflected. Do you think the children will enjoy receiveing drawings and origami from Japan? I will talk about feelings and show some photos of the children of Gaza expressing happiness, sadness, fear, surprise ect....
They dont have much idea about war and the outside world but they can relate to children. children to children art for peace

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Comment by luisella valeri on February 18, 2009 at 4:58pm: Smiles to all, but be vigilant and active! aid children of Gaza to have schools, sanity, houses, plays...to returne to life!

Comment by Beatrice LATEUR LACROIX on February 18, 2009 at 4:46pm: Thanks for the smiles, Irit ! We have to keep energy all together !
Love and Peace

Comment by Irit Hakim-Keller on February 18, 2009 at 4:21pm: we must be positive - in these days more than ever. why not putting some nice pic as a comment? as much as we think ans speak positively - so positive things will be happened.

Comment by SCarinhas on February 18, 2009 at 3:52pm: You are right, but sometimes a picture have more impact that all the words we can put in a comment!:)

Comment by David Califa on February 18, 2009 at 3:09pm: 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

Comment by Lea Tomlinson on February 18, 2009 at 8:30am: just popped into let you know that I have posted a link to my own website in our project group, that can be found at >> http://crisishelpinternational.ning.com/group/fenixhighschoolsweden

Comment by Beatrice LATEUR LACROIX on February 18, 2009 at 3:27am: Merci de ton commentaire Sara. J'appartins djà à un groupe en france dans lequel nous méditons ensemble et dont certains sont venus sur ipeace. Je fais aussi parite dui groupe de traducteurs du groupe francophone. Je préfère - au moins pour l moment- appartenir à des groupes dur ipeca lsutôt qu'à en créer un nouveau car ma disponiblié est très variable à ceause de mon travail (je suis psychothérapeute et les "urgences" arrivent toujrous de façon imprévisibles. Et puis j'aime bien la notion d'être ensemble. Dans ma vison du monde, tout ce qui Est est un.
Merci d'être ausi présente, active et motrice. J'apprécie beaucoup le gourpe de 10mn par jour que tu as créé ;-)
Love and Peace.

Comment by Beatrice LATEUR LACROIX on February 18, 2009 at 3:22am: Dear Denise,
I doon my best to help children and people in Gaza. I an't leave france for the moment because I work with pleenty of peope every week.
I translated somme mesages in franch frot hte French group.
Thank you very mcuh for motiving so many people includied me.
Love and Peace.