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Water for Multiple Displaced Families

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Hello Community, Please read this story of our friend Balsam in Gaza and her efforts to secure life saving water deliveries for displaced families!


Members of the Displacement Camp accessing water from a recent delivery that Balsam paid for and scheduled with a vendor. (August 26th, 2024)

Hello World!

My name is Katie McRaven. I am a 29 year old Metalsmith and Multimedia Artist from California, where I write you from, while my friend Balsam Ibrahim and her family are working to campaign for their safety and survival from Gaza, Palestine.  Balsam is a 26 year old Programmer and Software Engineer, having graduated from Al-Quds Open University with excellent marks, speaking to her strong dedication to her career path (she had better grades than I ever achieved here in the United States at my University). Unfortunately her career, her livelihood, and her home were lost during the early months of the ongoing violence and occupation that has ruptured and destroyed the fabric of Palestinian life…though all is not lost.  Over the last five months we have been working to help her story be seen and heard, building a stronger foundation and connection along the way.  In our unity we have decided to launch a new project that supports and uplifts her local community within the displacement camp that they currently are sheltering!  Balsam's intelligence and ability to problem solve has brought us to the campaign of funding and securing Water for Multiple Displaced Families

 

Water for Multiple Displaced Families is a campaign that will provide quality drinking water for nearly thirty-five to seventy individuals in Az-Zawaida, Deir Al-Balah (and if successful, hopefully more people can be assisted through this aid project!); the water will benefit families, some consisting of children and elderly who are sick and in dire need of water for their health, nourishment and water's cleansing properties! 

  • Water will be supplied by a tank delivery, in which many people will secure access to usable and quality drinking water for Hydration, Cooking, Cleaning, Rinsing, Washing Clothes, and other necessary utilizations that people who have access to running water take for granted!
  • Deliveries are arranged ahead by scheduling - Balsam arranges the water delivery with a vendor who arrives in their displacement camp and distributes water to those who are coming to acquire an amount for their needs
  • 2000 Litres / 528 Gallons of Water at a cost of approximately $200 is distributed within a single scheduled delivery to the camp and is supplied to individuals for their daily needs**

               **(more information regarding distribution and how long it lasts to proceed..)
 

If you are seeing this I would ask you to understand this if even for a brief moment ::  being without water in a vicinity where people are ill, malnourished, wounded, immune compromised due to their age group (infants+young childen and elderly) or health conditions is surmount to a de*th sentence.  I can think of it as nothing less than revolting towards the beautiful humanity of people I have connected with on the ground in Gaza, such as Balsam and her family and many more folks who deserve so much greater than this.  I would pray, that you are in some way able to.. please help Balsam work against this distressing situation!  Balsam has told me that children in her midst are experiencing illness and conditions related to vast amounts of pollution, and due to medicines being slim clean water is the only imaginable way to work for their sustenance and return to health. 

 

With care and respect, 
Katie McRaven 

(Please see below the infographic for our individual professional profiles…)

 

Katie:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherine-m-1840a695/

Balsam:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/balsam-al-aghwani-404389222/

 

 

 


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≈ Water-Bearer I ≈

This contribution level funds 10% of the water tank as it is scheduled and delivered to the area of displacement where Balsam and many families in need are located in Az-Zawaida! At this time I am including a personal note, a small and colorful crochet item, as a Thank You Gift with any contribution of this amount! Your support means so much to me (Katie) and Balsam, her family, and the people who are receiving aid from your compassionate care.

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≈ Water-Bearer II ≈

This contribution level ensures that 50% of the associated cost for the Water Tank is able to be paid towards Balsam and the many families in need, located in Az-Zawaida! At this time I am including a personal note, 1x LARGE and colorful crochet item, and 1x small and colorful crochet heart as a Thank You Gift with any contribution of this amount or greater! Your support means so much to me (Katie) and Balsam, her family, and the people who are receiving aid from your compassionate care.

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≈ Water-Bearer III ≈

This contribution level ensures that 100% of associated cost for the Water Tank is accessible; able to be paid for, scheduled and delivered to the area of displacement where Balsam and many families in need are located in Az-Zawaida! At this time I am including a personal note, 1x LARGE and colorful crochet item, 1x small and colorful crochet item, and one lanyard as a Thank You Gift with any contribution of this amount or greater! Your support means so much to me (Katie) and Balsam, her family, and the people who are receiving aid from your compassionate care.

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Katherine McRavena month ago

Water for Multiple Displaced Families - October Campaign Update

WATER CAMPAIGN UPDATE II -  OCTOBER 28th, 2024


HELLO ALL! Katie here!  Our water campaign, Water for Multiple Displaced Families continues to receive donations at a fair level, and yet we must plead again with our supporters and beyond to ENSURE the success of this movement into the near future.  With each donation, we are utilizing the funds and distributing water as aid within the displacement camp of Az-Zawaida.  With your help we are achieving the funding goals in order to give water,  a cornerstone to human and organismal life, to those who are desperately in need of access to water in order to nourish themselves by way of maintaining water for utilizations not limited to DRINKING, CLEANING, COOKING, RINSING, BATHING, AND LAUNDERING CLOTHES.   
FUNDING STATUS:

This important campaign, Water for Multiple Displaced Families maintains a current goal funding status of $3,313 out of our $7,500 goal!  As of October 28th, 2024 our fund has not achieved even HALF of the necessary goal. May I ask you URGENTLY to please share this campaign further, so that many hands are able to join in and support dozens of families in need?  Balsam, and the people of Az-Zawaida, Gaza are counting on YOU to help fulfill the funding goal of our campaign.  Many displaced people do not have money to constantly supply their needs. Helping many people access water for free is a way of working to offset the harsh realities that Palestinians face every day. 

 

Please tune in to the video below and assist our campaign in reaching many more people by sharing our links! With the achievement of more visibility and support, we will be able to assist more families and community members achieve drinking water access. Everyone has been denied access to running water, but with your generous support towards this campaign we can help a great deal of people offset this situation and gain some semblance of normalcy in their lives. With the delivery of water via a reliable water tank truck, you are helping people stay hydrated, nourished, and able to support themselves and their families in some small but very important way. Thank you for visiting this video, and we hope you will contribute what you are able to our campaign fundraiser "Water for Multiple Displaced Families" TODAY.

 


 

Katherine McRaven2 months ago

October Water Fund Update!

Hello Everyone! 

 

 This is Katie, once again writing to you with a few notable updates about our water campaign’s progress!  Please continue to read :-) 

 

➭➭➭ During the month of September we received $2,305 from under 25 donors, with the mean average donation being around $90!  This is great news for our campaign and proves that a handful of people can effect change in the world with collective action! Let’s pray for more beautiful individuals like those who have contributed thus far to learn of the great work we are tending in this aid project to bring water to folks experiencing almost a year of displacement.  With the money from this fundraiser being withdrawn as needed, we are supplying a number of community members with water for their hydration, health, and cleansing needs.  

 

I must ask YOU to please help us in these few crucial ways TODAY!

 

  1. DONATE - This important step ensures 35-70 people access to clean drinking water within the locality of Az-Zawaida, Gaza.  Any amount is helpful to the movement of our goals, with $200 being the cost for the individual 528 gallon delivery. 
         If 20 people donate $10 today we will have secured the costs for another water tank delivery.. or conversely if 40 people donate $5 today, we will have secured the costs for another water tank delivery!!  
     
  2. ➜ SHARE - When thinking about how many people we reached and the amount of folks who had an impact on our campaign, <25 people should not be made to fundraise $7500 - can we all work together, hand in hand, on creating a snowball or domino effect, so that the bearing of financial responsibilities falls to less people? Please consider doing your part as a friend and ally to this cause, by sharing it online, verbally, physically with the world you exist in. If I were there, I would speak to your friends too ;-)

     

to remind everyone: Water comes through scheduling by my friend Balsam’s coordination with the vendor who supplies a water delivery truck equipped with a multi-gallon tank. After payment and scheduling, the vendor drives into the displacement area in which Balsam and many individuals are located, and distributes water to those who come to the truck to supply their needs.  NONE of these folks are asked to pay for water because of the kindness of your heart. 

 

 May we continue to supply their needs as we have already done so, and may Allah protect these innocent lives who deserve care and happiness over that which they have endured for far too long. 

 

Thank you from bottom of our hearts,
Katie and Balsam 

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