🇵🇸📚 We're Just $9,249 Away From Being Able to Start Construction on Our School for Young Orphans in Gaza! Please Help Us Get There!

THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH! 1,662 of you have chipped in and we literally cannot do this without ALL HANDS ON DECK!

As-Salaam-Alaikum and good evening from Minneapolis. I am here speaking later tonight.

My friends, this is the update I have been waiting to send. 1 month ago it seemed impossible that we’d be able to raise these funds to build this new school.

But as of right now, 1,662 supporters have raised $190,751 to help us build a school for young orphans in Gaza.

That is extraordinary.

And now we are close to a threshold that changes everything.

When we reach $200,000, construction can begin.

That means we are just $9,249 away from moving this project from fundraising momentum into the actual beginning of the build.

🏗️ Donate now and help us reach $200,000 so construction can begin

I want us to really understand what that means.

For weeks now, we have been asking, pushing, emailing, sharing, praying, and giving. We fought through the LaunchGood competitions. We unlocked the $10,000 award for the school. We crossed $50,000, then $100,000, then $150,000, then $185,000, and now we are standing right at the edge of the point where the team can begin construction.

We are not dreaming in the distance anymore.

We are almost there.

And for the children, that matters. A school is not an abstract thing to them. It is a daily place to sit, learn, breathe, heal, play, and be known. It is a teacher calling their name. It is a classroom where they can learn how to read and write. It is a courtyard where they can move safely. It is counselling support for grief no child should ever have to carry.

This school is being designed for orphaned children in Gaza ages 5–9, serving Grades 1, 2, and 3. These are young children who have already lost far too much, and the least we can do is help give them a structured, safe, dignified place to begin again.

🤲🏽 Give your Zakat, sadaqah, or tax-deductible donation today

The proposed school includes 6 fully equipped classrooms with space for approximately 270 children, around 45 students per classroom. It includes 6 washrooms, each with its own separate exterior entrance, an administrative office, a teachers’ room, a dedicated counsellor’s space, solar power support, electrical infrastructure, secure perimeter fencing, and an outdoor artificial grass play area.

Every part of that matters.

The classrooms matter because these children have lost years of learning.

The counsellor’s space matters because grief does not disappear just because a child is quiet.

The washrooms, fencing, solar support, and electrical infrastructure matter because dignity is not an extra. Safety is not an extra. Planning for the real conditions in Gaza is not an extra.

And now we are less than $10,000 from the point where construction can begin.

That could be 2 donors giving $5,000.

It could be 10 donors giving $1,000.

It could be 19 donors giving $500.

It could be 93 donors giving $100.

It could be 185 donors giving $50.

Or it could be one person reading this who decides to carry the whole gap.

Most likely, it will be a combination of all of it, just like it has been from the beginning. Some people will give $5. Some will give $50. Some will give $500, $1,000, or more. Allah knows what each of us is capable of giving, and Allah knows what it costs us to give it.

📚 Help us cross the construction threshold for Gaza’s orphan school

The full goal is still $250,000, which means we have $59,249 left to fully fund the school. I do not want to minimize that. We still have to finish.

But today, the immediate goal is clear: $200,000.

Once we cross that line, construction can begin, and then we keep going until the entire school is funded.

This project is organized by Human Concern International. It is LaunchGood verified, tax-deductible, and for Muslims it is Zakat eligible.

And I want to be clear again: I am a full-time employee of Human Concern International and have been for more than 2 years. I do not receive fees or personal compensation from this fundraiser.

Not a penny.

I am pushing because this school is no longer some far-off hope. It is close enough to touch now. The team in Gaza can begin preparing to build. The children can begin moving closer to a real place of learning. And every donation right now helps turn the last few weeks of mercy and sacrifice into something concrete.

A real school.

For real children.

In Gaza.

🇵🇸 Please donate now and help us reach $200,000 today

After you give, please forward this email to 3 people who care about Gaza, children, education, mercy, and justice. Tell them we are just $9,249 away from the point where construction can begin, and $59,249 away from fully funding the school.

We have come too far to slow down now.

Let’s get to $200,000 and begin building.

Love and appreciate each of you.

Your friend and brother,
Shaun