Support Colors for Gaza's Healing Initiative

Rebecca Tucker is organizing this fundraiser.

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My name is Becca Tucker, I live in CA. My sister, friends and I have been beyond horrified at the news and struggling to find a way to act and make change happen. Over several months, we've gotten to know and be in direct contact with the individuals and team at Colors for Gaza, based in Gaza.

Our kids send drawings back and forth, messages wishing the other happy birthdays, messages of support, notes about their favorite toy or animals. We DM about grief, hope, and the news. These children in Gaza changed our lives. We ask you to please join in us helping this team at Colors for Gaza with basic supplies to keep their efforts going.

Check out some of their videos on instagram - they are extremely innovative in finding supplies for art projects and games despite the conditions they face, every bit helps! The team is facing the unfathomable, and yet doing everything they can to help children cope, heal, play and use the arts to begin to process their trauma and loss.

*All funds raised from this gofundme will go directly to the team to purchase supplies they need for projects, food and crafts for the children in Gaza.*

ABOUT COLORS FOR GAZA in the words of the team: "We are a team from Gaza, a group of dedicated parents, creative professionals, psychologists, caregivers and volunteers with the primary aim of healing the young people of Gaza who are experiencing the effects of trauma through war and displacement.

We want to create a safe and sustainable space for children of Gaza to heal their trauma through creativity, and potentially improve their mental health with hopes and wishes for a brighter future.

We work with local young people and provide a professional and safe space to develop their creative skills, aid them in talking about their experiences and express their feelings. *We meet on a regularly basis* and provide stimulating, motivational, recreational, social and interactive group workshops and activities.

Please share solidarity with the locally displaced families and young people of Gaza through creativity and play by donating to help us cover our basic overhead costs and to sustain our project."

Please follow us on Instagram & share with your contacts: https://www.instagram.com/colors.for.gaza?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==

Thank you, for being here and considering supporting this team.

JULY 25, 2024 UPDATE:

We wanted to provide a quick update from Colors For Gaza. As a recent example of our work, on July 23, we were able to host a small workshop for locally displaced girls in Gaza. With funds collected through this campaign, we were able to obtain enough beading supplies to make bracelets and beaded rings, as well as provide a small snack for the participants.

Check out our most recent video on instagram for some clips (above) of the girls getting a quiet moment to try to focus on their beadwork together and briefly put aside their worries. Thank you, so much, to all those who have contributed, shared our stories and art, made their own art, told a friend, or worked with their own children from afar to send messages of hope and connection. There's so many ways to support and fundraise and every bit matters! Also including photos of one of our supporters in Massachusetts, who is making watermelon beading kits, and will mail them (anywhere in the US), if they follow us on instagram, and share proof of their donation.

(Bracelet model included for our friends in Gaza who love their toy dinosaurs too : ) ).

AUGUST 11, 2024 UPDATE:

We are *so beyond thankful* for all the support in reaching our first goals. We are raising our goal to enable us to expand our projects and reach more children in need. More updates coming soon!

September Updates & Reflections after a recent event to support children and families during Polio Vaccination:

A condition we can all relate to through this past year, is that feeling of our minds and hearts experiencing conflicting and drastically different emotions and thoughts at the exact same moment. We can feel gratitude for small blessings and the joy in community, and resilience and hope, while simultaneously feeling profound loss, and fear and sadness and frustration that this situation was forced to exist at all.

That's one of the feelings our team is reflecting on after Colors for Gaza's last event. And its also what compelled us to consider how we can help during the vaccination events that have taken place to address polio. It is not news to anyone that medical centers and professionals, and safe zones have been targeted. To help children and their families better cope with the tension and fear behind coming forward to receive the vaccine, we worked to make the event more welcoming and fun - to ease the tension in the ways we know best with the resources of our team - with song and dance, and creative play. This embodies what Colors for Gaza does and who our team is.

As a group of dedicated parents, creative professionals, psychologists, and caregiver volunteers focused on providing healing to the children of Gaza experiencing this war's trauma and displacement - we respond to the weekly challenges and realities from a place of understanding and lived experience.

Please share our work, our posts and account, and continue to support us with whatever donations you can give so that we can continue this work. Thank you, for seeing our efforts, and the children of Gaza.