🇱🇧 I Didn’t Plan to Fundraise After Ramadan. But Lebanon Needs Us Right Now. Can You PLEASE Chip In?

I planned to focus on writing and special projects. But the violence is so brutal, and the suffering is so widespread, that I could not look away.

I want to tell you something honestly.

I did not plan on fundraising for Lebanon this month.

Truthfully, I did not plan on fundraising after Ramadan at all.

I planned on writing essential articles. I planned on focusing on special projects. I planned on catching my breath a little bit and turning my full attention to the work that has been piling up around me.

But the violence from the United States and Israel is so brutal, and it is harming so many people, that I just could not keep my head down and move on to my next task.

Across Gaza, the West Bank, Iran, and now Lebanon, more than 6 million people have lost their homes. Sit with that for a moment. Six million human beings. Six million lives destabilized. Six million people pushed into fear, uncertainty, and displacement because the most powerful governments in the world keep treating entire populations like they are disposable.

And in Lebanon, the suffering is escalating so fast that I do not have the luxury of pretending this can wait.

In just one month, the death toll there has now crossed 2,000 people. More than 1.5 million men, women, and childrenhave been pushed from their homes. One of the fastest ethnic cleansing campaigns in modern history is happening right now, and much of the world barely knows it.

Yes, Lebanon needs awareness.

But awareness is not enough.

Families cannot sleep on awareness.
Children cannot swallow awareness when they need medicine.
Parents cannot feed their families with awareness.
The displaced cannot drink awareness when they need water.

They need support. Right now.

That is why, even though I had other plans for this month, I launched this emergency appeal with Human Concern International. And that is why I am asking you, very directly, to please give to our Lebanon Emergency Appeal right now.

By the grace of God, 218 people have already helped us raise $16,669.

I am deeply grateful for that.

Truly.

But our current goal is $30,000, and Lebanon still needs us badly. Please click here and give now.

Our team is already in Lebanon doing the work. This is not abstract. This is not theoretical. This is direct emergency relief for families who have been driven from their homes and need help immediately.

The money from this campaign is going directly to mattresses, medicine, food, and water.

That means this is about the simplest and most urgent human needs imaginable.

A child needs a mattress tonight.
A wounded person needs medicine tonight.
A mother needs food for her family tonight.
A father needs clean water tonight.

That is what this campaign is for.

As always, I want to be crystal clear: 100% of your donation goes straight to the charity. I do not receive any percentage or fee. 100% of your donation is tax deductible. 100% of your donation is Zakat eligible.

I work full-time for HCI and coordinate directly with our team. So when I ask you to support this appeal, I am asking you based on direct knowledge of the work, the urgency, and the need.

And I want to say something else plainly.

I know the world feels unbearably heavy right now.

I know people are trying to process a genocide in Gaza, rising violence in the West Bank, a dangerous and expanding war in Iran, and now mass displacement in Lebanon. I know many people feel emotionally overwhelmed. I know many people feel financially stretched. I know some people are exhausted.

I understand all of that.

But the families suffering in Lebanon are exhausted too. They are displaced too. They are overwhelmed too. And they do not have the option of emotionally checking out from what is happening to them.

So I am asking us not to look away.

Not because Lebanon is the only place hurting.
Not because the suffering elsewhere matters less.
But because Lebanon matters too.
And because people there need more than our sympathy. They need our help.

If you can give $100, please give it.
If you can sponsor one family for $250, please do it.
If you can cover two families, five families, ten families, or more, please move generously right now.

Every gift matters.

And after you give, please send the link to people you trust. Send it to your family. Send it to your friends. Send it to your masjid. Send it to anybody you know who still has a heart for Lebanon and wants to do something real.

Here is the link again: Lebanon Emergency Appeal with Shaun King

I did not plan on spending this month fundraising.

But plans change when people are being crushed at this scale.

Plans change when children are displaced.

Plans change when families are sleeping in fear.

Plans change when entire populations are being uprooted and the world barely notices.

So here I am, asking you again: please give to Lebanon right now.

May God protect the people of Lebanon. May God heal the wounded, comfort the grieving, shelter the displaced, and move our hearts to act while there is still time.

Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun