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How To Help Aleppo

These people need help more than anything right now.

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Right now, the citizens of Aleppo, Syria are facing mass genocide. People all ages are being killed from bomb raids. Hospitals are being destroyed. Children are getting buried alive beneath rubble. Several individuals have posted videos of their goodbyes on social media.

These people are terrified day in and day out, but not all hope is lost. Below are several links to donation sites for medical supplies, winter items and so on. Your decision can help save countless lives. Please set aside money, even the smallest amount, to help during such a devastating time.

1. Sign this petition to ensure all civilians, medical personnel and rescue workers safe passage out of Aleppo.

If this gets 100,000 signatures, all civilians, medical personnel and rescue workers will be accompanied out of Aleppo by the United Nations or the International Committee of the Red Cross immediately. Once you sign it, please share it with your friends and on social media.

2. Support the White Helmets.

This group of volunteers rushes to scenes of bombings to pull people from rubble and help them to safety. They started in 2013 and have been saving lives since. As amazing as their work is, they can't do it alone. Your donations will provide medical supplies for injured citizens and rescue equipment for the White Helmets.

3. Books Not Bombs.

Here's a four-point list of what to do to help Aleppo, including getting involved in local events, contacting the government and more.

4. Aleppo Fund.

From the page itself, the purpose of this fund is "to help treat the civilian victims of the air strikes and shelling in besieged Aleppo, and to serve the medical needs of the people displaced from eastern Aleppo."

5. Winter Aid for Syria.

Your donations provides winter kits for Syrian children. The kits include one jacket, one pair of gloves, one scarf, one blanket and one hat.

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