You may have noticed that we have suffered with over 4 days of complete downtime. It was a really horrible experience for us to witness the site being non-operational during such a critical, busy time. But unfortunately these things happen, specifically when money is an issue and we can barely ever afford the best hosts/servers to keep our work up and running.

We are a non-profit, with no source of income. This makes it really difficult for us to maintain our growth and to remain ambitious about supporting others (we host many regional sites voluntarily for people who need them.)

These past few weeks we have spent a lot of time switching between several hosting companies in order to find the perfect fit, instead of creating much needed content. You will notice that we were doing our best writing updates, even while all our sites were down. All of these have been uploaded, thanks to the hard work of my colleague Kawthar. Coming back to our issue with hosting, we always had to settle for less because the best options were never affordable for us, even though we really need it. At this moment, the host we are using is hardly affordable as well, costing us almost $3,000 a year. 2 other hosting accounts which we use to host other people’s websites cost over $600 collectively, this includes domains and other such requirements. In any case, we have no other choice but to come up with this money somehow since our sites are growing with each day, and we need a powerful server to handle them all.

9 of our major sites were down much of this past week, and had suffered over 100 hours of downtime in just the past 3 months. This is unacceptable, many people rely on our projects for important news such as the status of Kareem in prison, Baha’i human rights, Kurdish rights, the rights of migrant workers, et al.

If you want us to keep up this work, to keep growing our team, our operations, our voluntary work, and this website, then please, consider donating to keep our sites up. Even $10 helps. We need to raise $3,600 very soon otherwise we’ll keep facing interruptions and we’d always be low on resources, which we can’t be because we really need to support people who need us to host their sites as many activists cannot afford them as well, in countries like Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Mauritania, etc.

PS. Major thanks goes out to Rima from Syria who is really helping us out with this process due to her excellent technical skills. Thank you so much, and of course to anyone who will donate. Please consider it, we really need financial assistance, or it will be very hard for us to tackle these major technical obstacles.

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