The father of the family I'm helping has a hearing disability caused hearing loss after surviving a bombing. He desperately needs hearing aids to be able to work again. Is there any way of finding out how to obtain hearing aids in Gaza right now?
I know they exist, I'm just not so good at finding them. I live on the northern side of LP near the Fullerton red line stop. I frequent Proper Pizza on Halsted and the Mexican place next to Firefly Burgers. I'm not against shelling out sometimes but it feels like almost everything is $20 and up now, it would be nice to have some cheaper options as well.
Hello, I apologize if this question is ignorant. I've been helping a family in Gaza for the last couple of months. The husband has a hearing disability, thankfully the wife and three children are mostly okay, but today the wife asked me if I knew of any ways for them to go about trying to evacuate. I am down to research this as much as possible and make any of the phone calls I need to make or send any emails I need to send. She said they don't have any family outside of Gaza that they're aware of, and neither of them speaking English makes it difficult to take stock of their options. If someone could even point me in any direction, that would be of the utmost help. I need to know which organizations could potentially help or even guide them through trying to pursue the process. If evacuation is possible I'd even be willing to try to contribute to the cost.
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I'm a white cis lesbian but sometimes seeing the care with which Louis's character and presence in the story is handled just makes me cry. Louis I'm sorry for everything this man did to you and I hope the writers put him through hell for it.
I have no idea why it never occurred to me to just ask here lol. I'll bring wine.
Edit to add: also down to watch with someone who doesn't have a party planned but wants to hang. ✌️
New to Chicago by way of LA (originally from KC) and I'm trying to watch more movies. Historically I'm bad at sitting through them on my own. Interested in seeing "classics" from oldies to current, art films, documentaries, and anything interesting. Looking for a few people to catch the occasional movie with and then get food and a drink after. I'm 37yo, queer (lesbian) and ideally looking for a mixed crowd to do this with. Any recommendations?
For the last couple of months I've been helping to support a family in Gaza by sending them regular payments to their fundraiser. I was the only person doing this and I planned to continue doing it after I was able to verify they were really in Gaza via video call. Their fundraiser was taken down overnight the night before last and the mom is beside herself. She only speaks Arabic and had no idea what to do. We communicate via translator. Apparently she has a friend overseas who speaks Arabic and has been managing the fundraiser for her, but so far she hasn't heard back from this person about getting the account back up and running and is asking me if I know of any other options. I told her that all I could find was that PayPal might work if she has an Israeli phone number. Has anyone else successfully gotten a fundraiser reinstated or assisted someone in doing so? Are there any tips I could give her to try to get this sorted out?
Editing for clarity: the platform was indeed GoFundMe. The fundraiser appears to have been taken down by the website. Still waiting to see if she's heard back from her friend oversees about the campaign. I'm assuming it's impossible to get back up and running. I recently sent a bigger payment than normal for Eid and it's still showing the funds were taken from my bank but I'm not sure if she'll be able to access them or not. I might be able to get them back from GFM and try to send again if she can get her Bank of Palestine account up and running. I'm wary to try to manage a Chuffed campaign for anyone but am recommending she have her friend who helped with the GFM set up a Chuffed fundraiser for her. Fuck this genocide and everything/everyone making it so impossible to help decent people out. I plan to continue helping until long after the genocide stops but I'm just one person in the Midwestern USA who knew nothing about Gaza before 10/7/23 and has no other contacts there now.
Recently transferred out by my job, was living in LA for a year previously (Kansas City before that) and I fell in love with the hojicha einspanner at About Time in Koreatown LA as well as the hojicha ice cream at Matsu Maru in Ktown and Midori Matcha in Little Tokyo. I also miss the matcha warabimochi you could buy at Yama Sushi Marketplace. Does anyone know any specific places in Chicago where I can find these things, if they exist? I know about the existence of Chinatown and places like Mitsuwa, Gangnam Station and H-Mart - what I specifically want to know is if anybody has seen these things for sale or on a menu anywhere, not where they *might* be. Thank you!
Edit: thank you for all the recommendations!!!
I was able to video call someone claiming to be in Gaza and verified they and their family are definitely in Gaza. They initially sent me a message on Tumblr. After our video call they followed me from 3 different accounts. If this person is legitimate, why would they have three separate accounts to post the same fundraiser on? Is there something I'm missing?