Humanitarian Bazaar | HB Spring Fund Drive
Humanitarian Bazaar produces creative projects focused on how people survive war and disaster.
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(Image: Crossing the Waddi Lol on the Sudan-South Sudan border. DJG)WELCOME BACK! As we relaunch Humanitarian Bazaar Magazine  this Women’s Day season, we bring you:

  • Medical teams sharing stories how to run hospitals in the toughest situations,
  • Women’s rights advocates sharing how they transform society,
  • Crisis journalists taking you behind the scenes of humanitarian response,
  • Musicians wielding their magic for peace, and
  • Workshops, recipes, humor, and art.

We need YOUR help to award honorariums for the local medical teams and women’s rights advocates who risked their lives to help others who have been sharing their stories, as well as to cover our core costs coming back to the public realm.

Our work has been covered by the BBC, CNN, VICE, WNYC, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, and regional press across Africa and West Asia.

We are best known for peacebuilding and music festivals in tough places. Meet our authory, filmmakers, photographers, and stoytellers; find our menu of stories, workshops, and more at Humanitarian Bazaar .

Join us! And share your stories, as well.

Peace, love, and amplifiers,

– Daniel and the crew

HB | Fund Drive
Help Civilians Survive War

KEEPING POSITIVE through these tough times, we bring you hope, stories, and recommendations. We have been through war and disaster and want you to get through it, as well.

We need pro bono advisors, consultants, and volunteers (based in Berlin or remote, online, safe, anonymous okay) for the following. Right now, we have vast potential, but just doing what we can with a handful of people and pocket change budget until new funding comes in but this cause is so important we must keep going. We need:

VOLUNTEER

  • writers / storytellers / musicians to reach global audiences
  • humanitarian protection researchers to document and archive
  • how civilians are protecting themselves and recommending techniques to others, incuding mental health. You don’t have to be an expert; we find links to great stories following guidelines and you write bullet point quotes, summaries, and the bibliographical sources.
  • wordpress, video, audio, and/or photo editors. Simply receive the stories, add the art, and we post them.
  • transcribers of interviews. While our editor and advisors do interviews with and in Sudan, Ethiopia, the Gulf Region, etc, sometimes it takes time to put audio to text, so we could use an app to speed it up, just it helps to have human hearts to check the flow.
  • translators. Arabic (Sudan or Levantine), Persian (Farsi or Dari), Somali, Ukrainian, Russian.

Dear lovely people, friends, and our community!
With the world turning upside down, would you like a way to help save lives or help those who save lives and help bring back peace?
As many of you know, Humanitarian Bazaar has been producing creative projects focused on how civilians survive war and disaster for sixteen years now. That has included our toughest project, the evolving War Survivors Advisory in which we researched how to improve civilians self protection and advocacy to prevent civilian casualties near frontlines in Afghanistan, Ukraine, Syria, and Sudan leading to our coming release, the multimedia learning, advocacy, and training package: How Civilians Survive War.
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We are returning to the world stage! With the As our online magazine relaunches, emergency medical teams, humanitarian aid workers, and crisis journalists are bringing you new stories about how we bring back peace, save lives, and help communities endure these tough times. We are also advocating for peace, womens health, and safety for health workers around the world. And we need YOUR help to award honorariums to incredible storytellers who have survived, as well as to cover core costs to bring those stories to changemakers and you. Stories on how we survive, advocacy for peace, and events will be rolling out starting International Women’s Day week. Find a menu of stories, workshops, and more at Humanitarianbazaar.org.
Humanitarian Bazaar’s work has been covered by the BBC, CNN, VICE, WNYC, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, and regional press across Africa and West Asia. We are best known for the Somali Sunrise Concert Tour for Peace (featuring K’naan and Waayaha Cusub), the Mogadishu Music Festival (Somali artists, Alsarah, Ariana Delawari, and more), and helping out on Sound Central, Afghanistan’s first rock fest.

 

Until recently, people in safe Europe, the United States, and even the Gulf of Arabia thought this only mattered to the “usual” war zones. Today with the Third World War evolving, we realize any of us may need this one day. And helping mothers, children, disabled, and others hurt in wars they do not play a role in also helps us learn from each other how to remind those who support the war how truly wrong it is and how too many innocent people are hurt. To learn more about the project, go HERE. And to help and learn, here are some options then a chart to show you where we would apply the support and funding.
Our highest priority is to provide honorariums to local Sudanese medical staff who saved lives in the toughest conditions running war hospitals under fire who escaped and are now recovering and want to advocate, teach, and tell their story.
Alongside that, we are also close with a number of Afghan women’s rights advocates who would also like to advocate, teach, and tell their story. These are people we know personally. Trusted donors and community members can invite them to provide talks or trainings to organizations or meet them virtually.
Your learning at our workshops or donation brings funds to pay them as they risked so much and lost everything and need help in their transition. With that and support for our core costs (websites, software, registration, repairing our media and communications gear), we can reach a larger audience to help educate and advocate as part of the global movement to restore compassion and humanity and reduce harm to innocent people.

LEARN AT HB WORKSHOPS led by our heroic medical experts, peacebuilders, and storytellers! With a sliding-scale price (free for former team members < € 20 / $24 standard for everyone up to < €50 / $60+ premium same workshop but with bonus extras for those who want to help by donating more) (CONSIDER ANOTHER COUNTRY OR ANTIWAR MUSEUM OR DADA CAFE AS VENUE)
Peacebuilding and reducing violent extremism (with Felis, Shiine, Dikriyo, Hojat)
How to peacebuilding, humanitarian, human rights, and health (with Modther, Mustafa, Eilaf)
How to create peace and music festivals (with Felis, Shiine, Dikriyo, Hojat)
Storytelling for writers, filmmakers, artists (Daniel,…)
Literary nonfiction (Daniel)
Video production
Photography
Grant Writing
ART, POETRY, WRITING, MUSIC, ADVICE, TOP TEN RECOMMENDATIONS. You can send us your wonderful stories and colorful magic to help us reach more people. Of course, it should be on our themes, safe, and unifying humanity, not dividing. We can’t feature all on top, of course, but we have our deep content front page (our firsthand survivor storytellers, medical teams, humanitarians, rights advocates, war journalists); then friends’ stories second page, and community posts third page, something like this.
MUSIC. Join our music heroes we have worked with… We have a song we would love to have everyone learn and send out to promote peace and restoration of humanitarian law called “Never Forget (Welcome to Our Bomb Shelter)” RECORD IT; SEND TO HOJAT AND NATCH TO ASK FOR ADVICE AND/OR A FARSI VERSION… This will be more successful when all these other elements are in place on the web page
DEBATE? People like Jie may inspire interest if we agree overall but debate on the how
VOLUNTEER. As we are all volunteers except for special projects and survivors earning honorariums, we invite you to…
PR photo editor…
PR video editor…
Wordpress editor…
Substack editor / advisor…
Editorial coordinator…
Guidebook editor…
Research and survey coordinator…
Transcription / translation

They are burning books…
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Urgent Minium Mezzo Goal Ideal

HB Admin core costs (6,000)

  • Govt registration fees / Unternehmen 210
  • Web hosting / Bluehost (30×12) 30 30 360
  • Web urls / Bluehost (30x6sites) 60 60 180
  • Software Adobe (50×12) 50 600
  • Software MS Office (50×1) 50
  • Studio rental / Edelrost 110 100
  • Studio rental / Weserstr 250 250
  • Gear replacement (disks) (200×3) 200 600
  • Gear repair / replace (laptop) 200 1200
  • Gear rental (promo and doc) 200 200
  • Reimburse (lea, insur, tax, food) 550 800 1200
  • Reimbursement (isabelle, anna, cc, etc) 300 1000

Program costs I (8,000)

  • Consult / Contributors to HBM & WSA – JOB DESCRIPTIONS
  • Late payments Afghan, et al 3000
  • ADVISOR Sudan – Modther 300 2000
  • RESEARCHER Sudan – Mustafa 300 1000
  • RESEARCHER Sudan – Eilaf 1000
  • Sudan – Afrah 300 300
  • Sudan – Aisha 300 300
  • ADVISOR Somali – Felis 300
  • ADVISOR Somali – Shiine 300
  • ADVISOR Somali – Nur 500
  • Afghan – Naiem 300
  • OTHER CONTRIBUTOR FLEX FUND 5000

Program costs II (6,000)

Special Needs

  • Sudan doctors 3000
  • Afghan women 3000
  • Other
  • Totals 640 3350 20000
  • Total here keeps the admin at 30%, so bring down the admin if bringing down the rest

Tip our host and writer: Humanitarian Bazaar’s founder / director / editor spent everything on Sudan these past two years, so if you can, please buy him a coffee! https://buymeacoffee.com/danieljgerstle