In 48 hours, you raised $594,844 for the people of Syria

Forty-eight hours ago, I asked us to resist going numb. To refuse to be people of pity who console ourselves by saying: “I feel your pain in my heart.”I asked us to instead be people of Love. People who do not allow the fact that we cannot do everything keep us from doing SOMETHING.And we sure did. We did a miraculous something. In 48 hours, you raised $594,844. Every penny we received from you over the past 48 hours will go on the ground to serve the besieged people of Syria. In fact, your money will be on the ground tomorrow — we already sent it. Our partners on the ground in Syria have shared these immediate steps they are taking with your funds: “1) You’re providing hot meals every day from our emergency kitchen, feeding approximately 20,000 people who have fled Douma and Eastern Ghouta and are now displaced. Tomorrow, we plan to take food inside Douma, where last week’s attacks occurred, to reach 2,000 of the neediest people we met this week. 2) You’re providing soap and pads and hygiene products for approximately 10,000 people. 3) You’re keeping two of our mobile medical teams in the field for another month. If this next month is like the last, you’ll be making sure shrapnel is removed from children’s skin, burns are healed, and lifesaving medicine reaches those who need it most.”As always, we will be in constant contact, reevaluating with our partners, and you will be the first to hear about the life-saving work your dollars are doing. Love is everything. Love is: Your pain in my heart and BACK OUT THROUGH MY HANDS. Thank you, thank you, thank you, for renewing my faith in Love every damn day. Love,G & Together Rising