Please help Aya continue her education. She selflessly volunteers to hold verification calls every week with Gaza Verified while facing genocide herself.
She’s also an excellent student (not that that should matter).
Thanks to your incredible support, I have raised €150 out of the €500 I need to enroll in a certified course.
This certificate will strengthen my chances of applying to universities outside Gaza and continuing my education.
Over the past year, your kindness has helped me keep my dream alive. I couldn't have come this far without you. Please help me reach the remaining amount so I don't lose this opportunity.
my name is kat & i live in scotland. i've started this campaign for my friend, aya rizq, who lives with her mum & siblings in the rubble of a destroyed gaza.
But don’t blindly look at a Gaza Verified link and assume it’s correct. Check the verified account against the actual account name of the account you’re trying to support. Make sure they match.
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan
Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their accounts, and donate to their fundraisers if you can (and please share this so others can do the same).
Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):
There were two other Germans in his replies who agreed with him that they also muted GazaVerified Palestinians and started thinking about reporting them additionally, for scamming.
I explained in German to the Germans what GazaVerified is and does, that they even verify the IP addresses to be in Gaza, and that I personally talk with Palestinians every day. Something they could do too. They could ask for their Signal number and have video calls with Palestinians. If they are convinced that #GazaVerified is a scam operation, then they must call me a scammer too because I vouch for the Palestinians.
The Germans literally replied that they don't care if the GazaVerified volunteers let themselves get tricked by AI. The Germans don't care, they remain convinced that GazaVerified is a scam.
It was wasted effort trying to convince these Germans. I then blocked all of them.
