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This campaign will collect all funds raised by August 1, 2016 at 4:45 AM EDT
There’s a way to send light to Gaza’s children despite the inhumane blockade that has lasted almost ten years. Rebuilding Alliance, the U.S. non-profit sponsoring this effort, has successfully sent two pallets of solar-powered Luci Lights so far. This Ramadan, we ask your help to send more.
It is dark in Gaza. Laila Al-Haddad, author and activist (pictured below), explains why the situation in Gaza is so much different then elsewhere, and why projects like ours are so important:
The people of Gaza, like you, wish to spend time with their families, complete their homework, eat dinner safely, and tend to day-to-day tasks when the sun sets. They wish for the basic rights every human should be afforded and wish to give their families and children a sense of normalcy in their everyday lives.
The solar powered lanterns we are purchasing for the people of Gaza are waterproof, inflatable, lightweight, and can be used for up to 10 hours a night when fully charged. With full usage on a daily basis, a lantern can last up to a full 2 years! With less usage per day, a lantern can last even longer, up to 7 years.
We are asking your help to send the next pallet of 1,920 solar-powered Luci Lights to Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations in Gaza for distribution to children and families in need. Rebuilding Alliance has pre-clearance from both Palestinian and Israeli Customs to send the lights through the blockade to our NGO partners: Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, Al Basma Club for the Disabled, and the Women's Project Center of Rafah. The State Department, a Senator, and a Congresswoman are standing by to ensure that the next pallets get in too.
Watch AIDA's video about the blockade here
Please send one light (or many), and then join us in signing this Avaaz petition to press the diplomatic community to end the blockade and #OpenGaza.
Just $10 will send a lamp to a child in Gaza to use for years and years to come!
$20 will send two lamps to two children.
$100 sends enough solar lamps for a whole family.
Rebuilding Alliance is a 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to rebuilding war-torn communities and bringing the world together to make them safe. We begin by helping Palestinian communities build affordable homes and school and playgrounds and women's centers, and we help with rebuilding community too. Rebuilding Alliance was founded in 2003 and we have been working in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza since that time. Our founding board included Cindy and Craig Corrie, the parents of Rachel Corrie, the young American who stood in front of the bulldozer to stop it from demolishing a Palestinian family's home - that was the family she had been staying with. We began our work in Gaza by bringing that family on speaking tour with the Corries in the U.S., then rebuilding their home in the hope we could rebuild their neighborhood too. The blockade blocked further construction -- and so our work in Gaza evolved to help in very positive ways, using compassion to press open the blockade.
To learn more about the solar-powered Luci Lights click here.
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Eid Mubarak! Our 2nd pallet of Luci Lights arrived in time
Eid Mubarak!
Dear Friend,
Good news - our second pallet of Luci solar-powered lanterns arrived in Gaza last week! 
Click here for our video. This pallet was received by Al Basma Club for the Disabled (ABCD), a Palestinian Non-Governmental Organization based in Gaza City. ABCD was established in early 2005 as a response to the physical and social needs of the disabled, especially youth and children.
Al Basma's team brough 300 Luci lights to 90 families whose homes
were entirely demolished - they are staying in temporary homes called caravans. I had asked ABCD to distribute in the caravans because when the social workers from Gaza Community Mental Health Programme brought me there in April, we could only deliver solar lights to the five families under the care of the social workers. Now Al Basma's team brought light to the other families too.
During the holy month of Ramadan, the gift of light is especially meaningful. 
Parents give their children a fanooz, or lantern, as a reminder to be a light in the darkness. With little as four hours of electricity a day, this little Luci light can be a big help especially in this special month, when families come together to celebrate.
Al Basma Club also delivered solar powered Luci Lights to their 300 members who include deaf, physically disabled and able bodied persons in Beit Layha in the north of Gaza. Their team then distributed to the most needy children in the Jabalya refugee camp and they gave 250 lights to the children at the Al Amal Orphans Center in Gaza.
There are more to distribute, and the Eid celebration is here. ABCD is working to get the lights to our other Palestinian NGO partners. We'll have more stories soon.
A big thank you to everyone who donated to send this second pallet of solar lights! We just placed the order this past week to send the 3rd pallet of solar Luci Lights. Thank you for your support and caring — thank you for being a light in the darkness, a light of the world!
Sincerely,
Donna Baranski-Walker
Executive Director, Rebuilding Alliance
P.S. These photos are by Mohammad Mansur, a young photographer in Rafah, Gaza. We'll be posting more photos on Rebuilding Alliance's Facebook page.
P.P.S. There are 700,000 children in Gaza. Let's bring light to all and end this blockade with compassion.
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— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ
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Giving is better together! Your share could raise over $77.
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