There are several ways to participate depending on your situation:
1. Purchase and top up discounted 'business' Nomad Middle East eSims using your own funds to send to gazaesims@gmail.com.
- anywhere
- pending how many emails we can include in our account
Please sign up for this option if you do not use Paypal or aren't located in so-called Canada, and/or are able to float your own funds/are part of your own fundraising efforts!
2. Purchase and top up using our funds.
This is essentially joining the Crips for eSIMS for Gaza team!
- 'Canada' preferred
- etransfer, Paypal, Vancity intermember transfer
- can wait a few days to a week or more for reimbursement
- pending funding availability
3. Send eSims and top up eSims using our funds.
Crips for eSIMS for Gaza organizers will assign you eSims to send to gazaesims@gmail.com. You can help monitor these eSims for usage, and these eSims need to be topped up, you can top them up and ask for reimbursement. (Organizers can also top up from the administrative account).
- 'Canada' preferred
- etransfer, Paypal, Vancity intermember transfer
- can wait a week or more for reimbursement
- pending funding availability
4. Take on the labour of sending eSims, without spending any funds.
Crips for eSIMS for Gaza organizers will assign you eSims to send to gazaesims@gmail.com. No further actions beyond the weekly task of sending eSims that you are assigned.
- preferred: people we have onboarded already, people we have social connections with
- pending funding availability
- will be revoked if eSims aren't sent within a week
Note: we will moderate the amount of eSims we send when we are running low on funds. You can encourage people to donate to our fundraiser below.
For options 2-4, please take a look at the instructions at the end of this
blog post.
The gist is all Crips for eSIMS for Gaza eSims will be BCCed/CCed to cripsforesimsforgaza@gmail.com. Reimbursements are through Vancity credit union, etransfer, and Paypal.
Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong. Alongside 150+ people helping behind the scenes, we've sent over 12K eSims to #ConnectingGaza since the end of December, 2023.