"Donations collected by volunteers and funnelled to needy families living in temporary shelters and struggling with illness, hunger and malnutrition have been harder to raise since then, according to organisers, many of whom have been running volunteer initiatives for Palestinians in Gaza on third-party crowdfunding platforms over the past two years. Megan Hall, based in Australia, runs 95 such mutual aid funds across social media accounts for individual families in Gaza, and has raised more than $200,000 (152,700) since February 2024."
"During the war, Hall said she was consistently able to send about $5,000 a week to people in Gaza. For the month of October, she said she raised just over $2,000 across all of her campaigns. The drop in donations is catastrophic. It feels like with the so-called ceasefire' the world thinks Palestinians don't need our help any more, Hall said."
Volunteer-run mutual aid funds collecting donations for Palestinian civilians in Gaza have experienced a catastrophic drop-off in donations since the October ceasefire. Donations gathered by volunteers and funnelled to families in temporary shelters, many suffering illness, hunger and malnutrition, have been harder to raise, particularly through third-party crowdfunding platforms used over the past two years. Megan Hall in Australia runs 95 mutual aid funds and raised over $200,000 since February 2024, but her weekly remittances fell from about $5,000 during the war to just over $2,000 total in October. Organisers say small, social-media-driven donations supported survival and now that support has diminished going into winter, leaving displaced families without adequate clothing, blankets and other essentials.
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