Request: With your support, we can continue the struggle for human rights in the Middle East

by Esra'a (Bahrain)

Since 2006, Mideast Youth has been working nonstop on human rights campaigns in the Middle East. We started out with one site and a series of ideas, but soon expanded into a solid network of a dozen websites with growing influence. Some of our best efforts can be seen here. We know that many people rely on our reports and material which we spend hours each day gathering, analyzing, protesting, etc. Anything from Baha’i rights to migrant rights, we do our best to stay on top of things while we tackle grave issues as creatively as possible with animated videos, social media campaigns, music, Google maps, timelines, comics, etc.

We have an awesome team of tireless, fearless activists and students who volunteer every single day in order to achieve stuff like this (a list of our 2009 accomplishments.) We don’t and won’t stop, because we know that our own future tomorrow depends on our efforts today.

Pulling off another successful year is a goal we must achieve, but we’re not sure we can do it without you. Aside from our tough work which requires a lot of our time, attention and energy, we also voluntarily support other initiatives and websites in the Middle East and North Africa by hosting (and occasionally designing/developing) their sites for free. That doesn’t only require time, which we’re happy to volunteer, but it also requires money. Servers, unfortunately, aren’t free. And the more we and the partners whom we host grow, the more expensive it gets – and we need your help to ensure that our services to them will remain free and that hosting our own sites will always be affordable.

In short: We need your help. If you like our work, appreciate our efforts, find our information useful or otherwise just think we generally rock, please take a minute to help out by donating. Every dollar counts.

We figured if Jimmy Wales could raise 7 million dollars on Wikipedia, we could at least meet our 5 thousand dollar limit considering the hard work and many sacrifices we make to make our work possible and accessible. We know a lot of people rely on our websites, and we need to keep running! You can help us.

Please forward this message to your family and friends and let them know that we need them.