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Severe storm #Byron is heading for #Gaza

Floods have already made life even more difficult for hundreds of thousands of people in the territory without safe shelter, food, water and medical care.

If you can please support our Appeal.

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Thank you

Floods are making already desperate conditions worse for the most vulnerable families in #Gaza

Thanks to @FCDOGovUK for boosting #AidMatch on #GivingTuesday with an extra £3 million for our Middle East Humanitarian Appeal.

If you're persuded by our video, your donation will be doubled.

The ceasefire in Gaza is not the end, it is a beginning The ceasefire is bringing a long overdue increase in aid into Gaza, but there is still a massive shortfall

“The ceasefire is not the end, it is a beginning.”

If you can, please donate to our renewed Appeal to help @christianaid and our other member charities save and protect lives in #Gaza

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Fresh appeal for Gaza as Scots raise £4.5 million for humanitarian crisis charities SCOTS have helped raise nearly £4.5 million for charities that specialise in delivering emergency humanitarian aid in the Middle East ...

Aid trucks have just started rolling into #Gaza

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This is the beginning of a long, difficult road to recovery Now must be the time to bring long overdue relief

This is the beginning of a long, difficult road to recovery for the people of #Gaza

If you can, please donate now. Thank you.

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The #Gaza ceasefire agreement brings hope to so many people whose lives have been shattered by the conflict.

Our member charities and their local partners are ready to resume operations at scale - so, if you can, please support this vital effort now. 👇

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Scottish Government announces £250k in humanitarian aid for Sudan The Scottish Government has announced a further £250,000 in humanitarian aid for Sudan.

Great to help our member charities ⁦‪Tearfund and ⁦‪Christian Aid to secure vital funding from ⁦the Scottish Government for projects in #Sudan and #SouthSudan - the world’s worst but largely unreported #humanitarian crisis

150,00 killed, 30 million need aid!

www.thenational.scot/news/2549922...

You’d be excused for forgetting, but it’s now 6 months since the huge #Myanmar earthquake.

Great support in Scotland - £2.4 million, £27m UK wide - has funded our member charities to help hundreds of thousands of people to survive and recover.

Thanks

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Our Middle East Appeal has now raised more than £50 million, around £4.3m in Scotland.

Thanks to this continued support - despite huge challenges - DEC member charities and their tireless local partners can still save and protect lives.

How we do it 👇
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Despite the huge security and logistical challenges, DEC charities and their partners in #Gaza are still able to get life saving support to those who need it most.

If you can please donate to support their efforts www.dec.org.uk

Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee | Scottish Parliament TV

Important for our Chief Exec @salehsaeed and others to brief the CEEAC, (External Affairs) Committee at the Scottish Parliament earlier today on the acute and deepening #Humanitarian crisis in #Gaza

You can watch a recording via this link.

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Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee | Scottish Parliament TV

We’re briefing the CEEAC, (External Affairs) Committee @ScotParl at 0930 on the deepening #Humanitarian crisis in #Gaza

You can watch via this link

www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/cons...

The headlines move on quickly but the life saving work of
@decappeal charities in #Myanmar is scaling up fast with your support.

Strong aftershocks, extreme heat and floods are making their efforts to reach the most vulnerable even more challenging.

If you can please donate now dec.org.uk

People across 57 townships in Myanmar are now living in makeshift shelters after the quake destroyed their homes.

Our DEC member charities are working to get shelter, food, water and medical assistance to those affected. Please help.

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The #MyanmarEarthquake appeal has raised £1.5 million here in Scotland in just a week, now £16 million UK wide!

A huge thanks again to anyone who has donated, your solidarity is making a life saving difference right now to the people who need it most

£30 could help our member charities provide 30 families who have been affected by the earthquake with clean water for a day.

With temperatures in Myanmar reaching 40 degrees, access to water is crucial for survival.

Please help.

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Families have lost homes. People need food, water and medical care.

Please donate to help.

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Thanks to @anassarwar.bsky.social and your @scottishlabour.bsky.social colleagues for supporting our work once again.

Cross party solidarity @parliament.scot is hugely helpful in emphasising the urgency and impartiality of the work of @decappeal.bsky.social members right now in #Myanmar.

People are cut off from vital services in Myanmar, where roads and buildings have been destroyed, including hospitals and water supplies. Network and power lines are also down.

Your support helps DEC charities get aid to where it is most needed. Donate now.

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Donations are already making a difference but the needs in Myanmar are huge. Please donate today to help us reach more people with lifesaving aid. 2/2

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Wondering how DEC charities are able to ensure aid reaches the people who need it in Myanmar?

Here, DEC Director of Programmes and Accountability, Madara Hettiarachchi explains how working closely with trusted local partners makes this possible. 1/2

Myanmar earthquake: How the scale of loss is clearer one week on More than 3,000 people have been confirmed dead after last week's earthquake and the toll is expected to rise.

"Myanmar suffered its biggest earthquake in a century. Holy sites destroyed in seconds along with homes and businesses".

The earthquakes have compounded the significant pre-existing humanitarian need in Myanmar.

Please donate today: bit.ly/DECMyanmarEa...

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DEC charities in Wales came together outside the Senedd today to launch the #MyanmarEarthquakeAppeal following the powerful earthquakes that have caused catastrophic devastation.

Thank you to the #WelshGovernment for your generous support.

To donate: dec.org.uk

Thanks to your generous support we've raised £400,000 here in #Wales, and £7.5m at UK level, since launching the #MyanmarEarthquakeAppeal yesterday.

Member charities are working hard to reach people with desperately needed aid.

Thank you - Diolch yn fawr 🙏🙏🙏

People in Myanmar were already facing a severe humanitarian crisis, with over a third of the population in need of aid.

Now, the earthquake has made the situation even more critical.

Please help our member charities deliver vital food, water, shelter and medical care. Donate at: www.dec.org.uk

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Families have lost homes. People need food, water and medical care.

Please donate to help.

bit.ly/DECMyanmarEarthquakeAppealX

"I had no idea what was happening. My bed was beside the window, so I jumped out. I got hurt a little, but I ran toward the road and lay on the ground. Now, my chest hurts.

"I wish I had the power of time travel. Then I could go back and fix whatever caused the earthquake." (Zarni*, 13, Myanmar)

White text on black background saying, "£30 could provide urgently needed water to thirty families for a day."

Survivors need the very basics - shelter, clean water, food and medical care. Please, if you can, donate today:

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The £1 million raised by Scots for Myanmar in first 24 hours of earthquake disaster campaign The fundraising campaign has raised £1m in Scotland in 24 hours

A man from Myanmar now living in Glasgow has warned people in his home country, Myanmar, are “suffering a lot” as DEC emergency fundraising drive raised £1m in Scotland in just 24 hours. @scotsman.com

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Whit text on black backrgound saying, "£10 could provide essential hygiene supplies for one family for 3 months."

People in Myanmar were already facing a severe humanitarian crisis. One in four people did not have enough to eat.

Now the situation is even more critical.

The earthquakes destroyed 120,000 buildings and displaced 1.2m people.

Please donate.

bit.ly/DECMyanmarEa...