Soqotra needs our help

Fundraising campaign by Lisa Banfield
  • US$13,000
    raised of $8,000.00 goal goal
162% Funded
45 Donors
Raised offline: $60.00
Total: $13,060.00
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Dear friends and admirers of Soqotra, our Soqotri friends are requesting our urgent help.

Thousands of Soqotris are currently living without shelter, clean water or basic essentials.

After months of hardship due to ongoing warfare on the mainland the Soqotra Archipelago, a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of its unique biodiversity, has been hit by two powerful, unprecedented cyclones within the space of a week.

Cyclone Chapala hit on 1st November, reaching gusts of 232km (144 miles) per hour. It dropped a decade of average annual rainfall in just two days.

Cyclone Megh, hitting on 8th November, was even stronger.

The cyclones have caused human casualities, countless injuries, displaced thousands of people and damaged and destroyed thousands of buildings including homes, hospitals and schools.

Shortages of food and safe drinking water are expected and the onset of disease is feared.

Electricity is down in many areas. There is widespread flooding and destruction and the situation for the Soqotri people is dire.

The Friends of Soqotra (FoS) is urgently raising funds for humanitarian aid and (at a later date) ecological restoration. All funds raised through this site will be transferred directly to Friends of Soqotra.

Funds will be allocated to the most needy, following the close advice of Socotri friends on the ground with logistical support of the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ).

The Friends of Soqotra, a charity registered in the UK, is a community of scientists, researchers, development workers and travellers interested in the Soqotra Archipelago http://www.friendsofsoqotra.org/.

FOS was established to promote the sustainable use and conservation of the natural environment of the Soqotra Archipelago, and to support sustainable improvement in the standard of living of its people.

Donations can also be made direct to the Friends of Soqotra via Paypal http://www.friendsofsoqotra.org/About/Membership.h...

Please give whatever you can. Everything helps. Thank you.

Organizer

  • Lisa Banfield
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  • Campaign Owner

Donors

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  • Nathalie Peutz
  • Donated on Dec 21, 2015
  • Thank you, Lisa, for setting this up and thank you, Ismael, for your tremendous work on behalf of the Soqotran people.

$1614.00
  • Fabio Pupin
  • Donated on Dec 15, 2015
  • Socotra people deserve a place to live. We all deserve a place like Socotra.

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Jan 27

Thank you!

Update posted by Lisa Banfield at 01:46 pm

Dear Friends of Soqotra donors. We are very happy to say that our fundraiser to help the Soqotri people has far exceeded our first goal. We raised more than $14,000 in total. We have now closed the fundraiser to concentrate on distributing the funds to the most needy causes. We

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Dec 09

14 vital fishing boats repaired on remote Samha Island

Update posted by Lisa Banfield at 03:33 pm

Dear Friends,To date FoS has raised over 6000 GBP in total for the campaign to provide relief to the Soqotra Archipelago following the two devastating cyclones that hit on 1st and 8th of November. Our man on the ground Ismael Mohamed has just returned from the remote island of Samha. . . . .

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Nov 25

First target reached and further news from the islands

Update posted by Lisa Banfield at 08:28 am

Dear Supporters, We are overwhelmed to have reached our initial target of $5000 and our first donation has already reached the island. Our target has been raised to $8000. News is beginning to arrive from the outer islands of Samha and Abd al Kuri. 129 families from Abd al Kuri,. . . . .

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Donors & Comments

45 donors
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  • Nathalie Peutz
  • Donated on Dec 21, 2015
  • Thank you, Lisa, for setting this up and thank you, Ismael, for your tremendous work on behalf of the Soqotran people.

$1614.00
  • Fabio Pupin
  • Donated on Dec 15, 2015
  • Socotra people deserve a place to live. We all deserve a place like Socotra.

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$50.00
  • Nasreen Al Tamimi
  • Donated on Dec 01, 2015
  • Mama 'Allah yerhamha' always spoke so fondly of her visit to Soqotra.. This is for you Mama! Well done to everyone who is helping and May God bless you all!

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  • Julien Dufour
  • Donated on Nov 25, 2015
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  • Angela Zin
  • Donated on Nov 22, 2015
  • Soqotra deserves everything we can do for it and its people. I'm sure Soqotra will be even more beautiful than before.

$200.00
$2000.00
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  • Jonathan Hanlon
  • Donated on Nov 19, 2015
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Followers

24 followers
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US$13,000
raised of $8,000.00 goal
162% Funded
45 Donors
Raised offline: $60.00
Total: $13,060.00