Moving over to our work in the US - Disaster Response & Preparedness: July 2025 – June 2026

Next up, let’s take a look at our Levant Response: July 2025 - June 2026 Huge thanks to @aneraorg.bsky.social, Afya, Good Loud Media, and DMDM Mutual Aid for making this possible! 📸 @aneraorg

Remember, mutual aid runs on long-term collective solidarity rather than immediate, transactional payback. You shouldn't expect payback because your immediate intention is to help ppl. However, you aren't required to pay back immediately.

Are you an Austin based TTRPG Person? We're collabing with @distributeaid.org on some super secret Good Guy shit in the area and we need folks for a Secret Thing, hit me up or tag your homie in the replies!

Recapping our European Refugee Support response: July 2025 – June 2026 Through 5 shipments, we delivered 228,118 essential aid items worth $985,166 to people on the move in Greece, France, Ukraine and the Balkans.

It’s that time of year when we reflect on everything we’ve achieved over the past year! 🌍 Across 4 responses and 17 shipments, we delivered 1,723,466 essential items worth $1,552,627, reaching communities throughout Europe, the Levant and the US.

Last Friday, Distribute Aid team members delivered a 90 minute workshop to grassroots organisations about how to source more aid for free for their projects!

We were very happy to facilitate the donation of a pallet of toothpaste (that’s just about 10,000 travel-sized tubes!) earlier this month! The 10,000 tubes have gone from Ireland to @christianrefugeerelief in the Netherlands

What happens when aid supplies reach their destination? 📦 Thanks to World Centric, ALAN, Afya, and Lifting Hands International, who have previously pre-positioned supplies with us at strategic locations.

BREAKING: 90% of LGBTQ and intersex rights groups globally have lost funding since January 2025. outrightinternational.org/breaking-point

400 packs of period products are on their way to communities recovering from disaster 🫂 Some of the supplies are heading to Gary Indiana, to support people recovering from last month’s storm, and the rest will be pre-positioned in Athens, Georgia, ready for when they’re needed.

So, question for all y'all bluesky folks. Been doing some mutual aid things to help the homeless, but I was wondering something, especially when it comes to camping/living outdoors supplies. Anyone know a good bulk/wholesale source that's legit and not full of lead?

✈️15,000 critical medical items picked up for Lebanon 🩺 We rarely send shipments by air, but with Israel’s continued attacks and medical supplies critically low, the scale of urgent medical need across Lebanon remains huge ❤️‍🩹

3 weeks after a powerful storm caused widespread flooding and destruction in Indiana, recovery efforts are far from over. Residents in the Black-majority community of Gary were left without power for almost 2 weeks, forcing businesses to close and preventing reliable access to food and water.

Flooding devastated swathes of Indiana but response is hampered by politics

Record inundations wrecked homes and took seven lives but Trump has not approved emergency aid and state has cut funds for environmental agencies

theguardian.com

What do ‘strong borders’ actually do for ordinary people? Our latest newsletter explores how borders are weaponised to scapegoat migrants, and why systems built to ‘protect’ by excluding others ultimately leave everyone more vulnerable.

Chicago showing us how it’s done ✊🏳️‍⚧️ DA’s @borderless.bsky.social recently visited Brave Space Alliance in Chicago - our newest assembly hub partner for our HRT Toolkit Project!

Access to healthcare shouldn’t depend on who you are or where you live. 🏥🩺 We recently helped facilitate the delivery of an ultrasound machine to a clinic in Zarqa, Jordan, where it will help provide vital care to 90-120 women each month.

Chicago’s Brave Space Alliance recently joined our HRT Toolkit Project as an assembly hub - here’s a few snaps from their recent kit build 🏳️‍⚧️✊ Thank you to all the incredible folk there for demonstrating what true community looks like!

Yo does anyone know of mutual aid groups in the PNW that @distributeaid.org could maybe work with on PNW fire relief? @pervocracy.bsky.social and @myrrlyn.net come to mind but not sure

What’s it really like working in the humanitarian aid sector? In this month’s newsletter, we speak to Madi Williamson, executive director at Insight Collaborative - an organisation that trains humanitarian leaders around the world.

Notable NorCal fire: 50+ acre #WoodsideFire is burning in heavy timber between Hwy 1 & Pacific Ocean & has forced some evacuations in western Sonoma County. It is wind driven (25 gust 35mph) in moderately dry heavy fuels despite mild temps/moderate humidity. Smoke widely visible.

Can we now abolish the home office ? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Home Office used ‘AI hallucinated’ information to refuse asylum claim, judge suggests

Upper tribunal unable to find document cited in case and claims it is ‘analogous to relying on bogus evidence’

theguardian.com

Something something the government isn't coming to help you. Help @distributeaid.org expand our presence along the West Coast and Northeast, where liberal states won't be getting disaster aid. - we need funding to grow, donate at the link - we want to talk to mutual aid groups in those regions

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

We’re still looking for people to fill a range of roles on our tech team! Full role descriptions in the thread below ⬇️

Distribute Aid@distributeaid.org · 3mo ago

We're looking for people to join our tech team across a range of roles and projects! If you're interested, drop an email to join@distributeaid.org with a short expression of interest and description of any past experience. More roles in the thread ⬇️

A recent warehouse fire in West Virginia left nearby communities dealing with toxic smoke and hazardous residue even after the fire was put out. Thanks to supplies we had pre-positioned in Atlanta, a volunteer was able to drive masks and gloves up to support the clean-up response.

Come help us develop a tooling platform that’ll get more aid delivered to more people!

borderless@borderless.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Come help tons of people by joining @distributeaid.org's tech team! You'll get to hang out with me, @chinders.bsky.social, @ky.fyi, @asiahoe.com, @randomdeadbird.satan.social, and so many more cool people.

Hello my lovely technical people, you can use your skills to save lives!

Distribute Aid@distributeaid.org · 3mo ago

We're looking for people to join our tech team across a range of roles and projects! If you're interested, drop an email to join@distributeaid.org with a short expression of interest and description of any past experience. More roles in the thread ⬇️

Come help tons of people by joining @distributeaid.org's tech team! You'll get to hang out with me, @chinders.bsky.social, @ky.fyi, @asiahoe.com, @randomdeadbird.satan.social, and so many more cool people.

Distribute Aid@distributeaid.org · 3mo ago

We're looking for people to join our tech team across a range of roles and projects! If you're interested, drop an email to join@distributeaid.org with a short expression of interest and description of any past experience. More roles in the thread ⬇️

We're looking for people to join our tech team across a range of roles and projects! If you're interested, drop an email to join@distributeaid.org with a short expression of interest and description of any past experience. More roles in the thread ⬇️