$1,500 - Mystery Money
$66 to buy a bicycle and bicycle lock for Haroon Haydari, a recent immigrant from Afghanistan who is living in West Oakland with his wife (pregnant) and their three very young daughters. (a 4-year-old and twins that are 2-years-old)
$50 for food for a meeting of the Kentucky Mutual Aid group that serves the Appalachian Community Meal
$100 to Al Rowwad, a secular cultural organization in Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem,West Bank, Palestine - for children’s computer education
$60 to Amanda Smith for teaching Mutual Aid to HGC Tanzania partner
$102 to Berea Earth Warriors (gardening collective) for providing free food to the HGC Appalachia Humanist Community Dinner for six months
$92 to the Queer Hollow Duck Collective in Appalachia. Their goal is to build a functioning duck farm.
Budget: $139.99 for 150 feet of chicken wire for the duck fencing, $20.00 for a meal worm tank, $27.00 for 2100 meal worms (breeding stock), $12.99 scratch grain bags every two weeks, $21.99 pellet bag every two weeks, $20.00 for fresh produce per month, $24.46 for 8 pounds of hemp bedding
Benefits to community: 1) There is a severe lack of safe spaces for Queer people to exist outside of overpriced cities and college towns. We are the throwaway kids the Pride Parade left behind but we feel we have every right to live as free and rural as our straight neighbors. 2) We need to build our own resources so we can stand tall and join the rural economy of trade and barter. We also need a place to breath fresh air and commune with nature without being harassed. The benefit is Freedom
$16 to Garima, LGBTQ+ college student in India, to pay her school fees
$190 to Appalachia Humanist Community Meal - to serve dinner to homeless and poor in January and February
$38 for lunch meeting between Hank Pellissier (program director) and Doug McLain (technology advisor) at Dharma’s restaurant in Santa Cruz
$87 to Bwambale James in Kasese, Uganda to buy a phone. He is the director of Moonlight Humanist Nursery School
$30 gas money for Hank Pellissier (program director) to meet with Rick Thomas (strategic advisor) and discuss HGC future
$174 to Appalachian Community Meal in Berea, Kentucky, for July & August food purchasing. The volunteers feed homeless and impoverished people once a month. Humanist information is provided. Photos below of the event and food served.
$129 to build and stock a Free Pantry with our partner Appalachia Mutual Aid in Berea, Kentucky. The rules of the pantry are below
$150 for HGC Administration Fees
$108 to Nigeria to Murjanatu Rabiu Lawal for her peanut business
$108 to Nura Umar in Nigeria for his sweet potato business