Please help us support Gheed and other Palestinian linguists to find food, find hope, and keep doing their essential work of translation for refugees amidst the war.

“If I were to die tomorrow, I would die in peace, knowing I spent my life helping others. That I stood with refugees and migrants from Yemen, Syria, Palestine, Sudan, and beyond. That I was someone of worth to the innocent, humble Palestinians around me, people who not only deserve life, but love it fiercely.

Your support is more than aid. It is a message. It tells Palestinian linguists like me that we matter. That we’re seen. That even in the darkest moments of our lives, someone believes in our right to live with dignity, to work with purpose, and to hope for a better tomorrow.” - Gheed

There is much we can’t do in the face of chaos and terror. But helping Gheed and other Palestinian translators is one thing we can do.

Gheed, based in Northern Gaza, is the Co-Director of RCT’s Arabic Team. In this role she leads and supports RCT’s Arabic translators, including many also based in Gaza, who work tirelessly translating and interpreting for thousands of Arabic-speaking asylum seekers around the world even while themselves surviving genocide, displacement, famine.

We have set up a fund to provide Gheed with food in the short term, and a path to safety when border crossings open in the long term, so she can pursue a masters program abroad to increase her qualifications for doing translation and cross-cultural work. Our goal is to fundraise $30,000 for Gheed. Anything raised beyond this will go to support 11 other Palestinian translators based in Gaza who work closely with Gheed.

We launched this fund on August 24 with a Poetry Reading event with poems written by Gheed herself — and poems written and read for Gheed by Naomi Shihab Nye of Texas, and Kim Stafford of Oregon.

Contribute to support Palestinian linguists who, even while surviving genocide, displacement, and famine, continue translating and interpreting for thousands of Arabic-speaking asylum seekers worldwide.

Emergency Fundraiser & Poetry Reading: Support Gaza Translators