🌙 9 Days Until Ramadan. Gaza Is Counting on Us.

What we do in the next 9 days will determine who eats in Gaza.

Family,

I want to speak to you plainly and from the heart.

As of this moment, we’ve raised $81,155 from 854 supporters to provide warm iftar meals to families in Gaza this Ramadan. I’m genuinely grateful. That number represents real people choosing compassion. Thank you.

But with just 9 days until Ramadan begins, I need to be honest about what it will take to do this right.

To make sure families in Gaza have food from the very first days of Ramadan, we need to raise closer to $250,000 in the next 9 days. That money has to be committed now so food can be purchased, prepared, and positioned before the month even begins. Once Ramadan starts, our work doesn’t slow down—it accelerates. What we do now determines how strong we are then.

This won’t be easy. And I’m not pretending otherwise. But I’ve seen what this community can do when we move with urgency and sincerity.

Here’s the truth about how we reach a number like this: it never comes from one kind of donor. It comes from all of us doing our very best.

Some of you are in a position to give $10,000, $5,000, $1,000, or $500 right now. If that’s you, I want you to know how meaningful that is—those gifts help carry entire communities through the first days of Ramadan.

Others can give $5, $25, $50, or $100—and I mean this with full sincerity: those gifts matter just as much. Movements don’t work when people compare themselves to one another. They work when everyone gives what they can, with a clean heart.

Every dollar you give through this Ramadan Gaza fundraiser is:

• 100% tax deductible

• Zakat eligible

• Used only for this cause

• And goes directly to feeding families in Gaza

I don’t take a percentage of what you donate. I never will. This is about meals on tables, not money in pockets.

Right now, families in Gaza are preparing for Ramadan under siege—scarcity where there should be abundance, hunger where there should be warmth, grief where there should be joy. Parents are already skipping meals so their children can eat. Elders are going without. And Ramadan is coming whether we are ready or not.

That’s why I’m asking you—person to person—to help us surge in these final 9 days by giving whatever you are able to give right now. And if you truly can’t give, please share this with three people who might be able to. That matters more than you think.

I know this is a hard ask. But I also know what mercy looks like when it’s multiplied. We’ve done hard things together before. We can do this too.

But we have to move now.

Thank you for trusting me. Thank you for standing with Gaza. And thank you for being part of a community that keeps choosing compassion—even when it’s not easy.

With love and resolve,
Shaun