$500 donation from Alison Brody Alpert
$130 to Saudi Arabian lesbian humanist fugitives in Turkey.
Rawda is from a Sudanese background, Hiba is Ethiopian. Both were born and raised in Saudi Arabia by very strict Muslim families.
They began dating in 2017 and had to keep their relationship hidden because it is very dangerous to be a humanist or a lesbian in Saudi Arabia - and doubly-dangerous to be both. When their families found out they tried to force Rawda and Hiba to marry men. Hiba escaped to Turkey on 2/12/2019 and Rawda got there 1/3/2020.
They have been facing financial hardships in Turkey ever since. They needed $130 to pay their rent.
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$65 to Siksit Bharat School in a small village near Goradkpur city in Uttar Pradesh state, India, to pay for two electric stoves to cook lunch for the 145 students. Siksit Bharat school is secular humanist, the students are Dalits (untouchables).
$65 to ship via USPS 10 shirts and a banner with the Humanist Mutual Aid Network logo on them (above) to the humanist Tai Solarin School that we fund in Minna, Nigeria. Tai Solarin was a famous humanist educator in southern Nigeria in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Photo of the school teachers below. This project is conducted by the Minna Safe House.
$80 to N’Djamena, Chad - to deliver dental supplies to 50 abandoned street kids and 50 school children. We provided toothbrushes, toothpaste, mouthwash, and facemasks, through our partner Usman Abubakar of the group N’Djamena Humanist Mutual Aid.
NEPAL - $70 to provide warm clothes to Badi caste children in Dang province in southern Nepal. The Badi are the “untouchables of the untouchables” - the lowest caste in Nepal. The warm clothes - sweaters and pants - were delivered by Kriti Sharma, a member of Atheist Republic Nepal (ARP) and Nepali Association of Secular Humanists (NASH).
$90 to South Sound Street Medics in Tacoma, Washington state. They are an indigenous-led mutual aid group that provides health services, food and clothing, to homeless people, and Indian reservations. Part of the donation was cash and part was in t-shirts pictured below that they will distribute to Tribal Youth.
