17 July 2025 Edit: I have just drawn the winners of the raffle, please check your emails if you have entered! I have received more than 200 entries for this raffle, thank you everyone for your enthusiastic response!

17 July 2025 Edit: Entry to the raffle is now closed. Thank you for everyone's enthusiastic response. I will draw and email the winners in the next few days.

Freshwater Pearl Necklace Raffle for Gaza 2.0 (worldwide shipping!)

Making another necklace raffle due to the huge response I received for my previous one!

I am organizing this raffle in order to raise funds for Gaza fundraising campaigns with LOW donations/ supports big families/ in need of medical surgery AND Gaza mutual aid initiatives. I am also shipping worldwide this time!! 

To enter, donate to any fundraisers that fulfill both of the below requirements:

1. A fundraiser that

• has raised less than €10K/ $10K USD/ £8K GBP/ $14K CAD/ kr110K SEK/ kr110K NOR at your time of donation 
• OR supports 15 or more people, 
• OR is raising funds to pay for medical surgeries. 

2. A fundraiser from one of the following sources:

• @/gazavetters vetted list
• Vetted list by @/el-shab-hussein, @/nabulsi and Mohammed Ayesh
• Fundraisers reblogged by me (@a-shade-of-blue)/ My list of vetted fundraisers that have reached out to me (basically all the fundraisers I have reblogged are on this list)

OR

You can also enter the raffle if you have donated to the below Palestinian-led mutual aid initiatives:

• The Sameer Project (IG): North and Central Gaza/ The Refaat Alareer Camp/ South Gaza [provides basic needs and aid]
• Mona's Mutual Aid Project (IG) [provides basic needs and aid]
• Isnad Foundation (tumblr) [help students pursue degree online]
• Ihyaa Foundation (tumblr) (IG) [ Palestinian youth led initiative to provide resources so that university students in Gaza can continue their education]
• Revive Gaza Farmland Initiative [Rehabilitate Gaza's agricultural sector and local food sector to combat famine]
• Crips for eSims for Gaza

Instructions:

Donate a minimum of €5/$5/£5/kr50 to enter the raffle! Each €5/$5/£5/kr50 counts as an entry, so if you donate €10, you will be entered twice.

Submit your entries through this Google Form!

The deadline for entering this raffle is 15 July, 2025. 

Submit your entries through this google form to enter the raffle!

Not sure which fundraiser to donate to? Check out these low donation fundraisers that support big families!

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Homeless mom of 2 needs help in Gaza

Maha and her family previously had a verified GFM to pay for basic necessities like food, medical care, and some form of shelter. Horrifically, the person running their former GFM has stolen from them and hijacked their campaign.

Below is Maha’s new GFM. Her previous GFM was vetted by el-shab-hussein and nabulsi on their vetted campaign master list, on line 163.

Homeless mom of 2 needs help in Gaza

Maha and her family previously had a verified GFM to pay for basic necessities like food, medical care, and some form of shelter. Horrifically, the person running their former GFM has stolen from them and hijacked their campaign.

Below is Maha’s new GFM. Her previous GFM was vetted by el-shab-hussein and nabulsi on their vetted campaign master list, on line 163.

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Even as an advertiser (especially as an advertiser), I am convinced that outlawing advertising is the best thing we can do for our world now. More than gun control. More than tackling climate change. More than lowering the price of eggs.

Removing these advanced manipulation tools would force everyone—politicians included—to snap back into reality. By outlawing advertising, the machinery of mass delusion would lose its most addictive and toxic fuel.

I started out reading this smugly saying to myself yeah, right.

But by the end I'm sold. Let's ban advertising.

We can start small, maybe with city ordinances. Then roll it out county wide, then at the state level. Once other states see how quiet and sane things can be, they'll adopt the ban too. The ones that don't will remain snarling islands of rage & delusion until the people move away.

Let's ban advertising.

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If u are able to help me I'll put my paylinks and home needs wishlist below:

zlle: sailorsylvie@gmail.com

cshapp: $sailorsylvie

vnmo: Serena-Manning

pypal: sailorsylvie@gmail.com

Kofi

Home Needs Wishlist

My website where I sell handmade Press-On Nails

Thanks y'all, hopefully it all turns around. For all of us.