Proof of Delivery: What Happens After You Donate to Gaza (Step by Step)

The Answer to the Question Every Thoughtful Donor Asks

The most important question a donor can ask is not "should I give?" It is "how do I know it arrived?" That question deserves a specific, honest answer. This page is that answer.

I am Mohammed Z. Al-Shanti, 35, a Palestinian agricultural engineer displaced in Northern Gaza. My identity is fully verified — professional registration, government ID, GoGetFunding platform verification, and over two years of continuous diary records. You can verify everything at donatetogaza.org/verification.

This page walks through exactly what happens after you donate — from the moment you click confirm to the moment I can prove to you that the money reached us and was spent on what I said it would be spent on.

Step by Step: What Happens After You Donate

How Cryptocurrency Reaches Us Specifically

Gaza's banking infrastructure has been severely damaged. Traditional wire transfers are largely impossible. PayPal functions because of its e-wallet structure. Cryptocurrency has become one of the most reliable ways to receive money in Gaza precisely because it does not depend on local banking infrastructure.

When Bitcoin, USDT TRC20, Solana, ETH, or USDC arrives in my wallet, I convert to local currency through peer-to-peer exchange services or informal but established exchange networks that have been operating in Gaza since banking systems collapsed. The converted amount — usually to USD cash or Israeli Shekels for local purchases — is what I spend at market.

USDT TRC20 is the most fee-efficient for smaller amounts — typically about $1 in fees per transfer. Solana has near-zero fees. Bitcoin and Ethereum have variable fees. For all five coins, full wallet addresses are at donatetogaza.org/donate-crypto.

What I Commit to Every Donor

• Personal response to any message with a transaction reference — I respond to every donor who contacts me.
• Photographed receipts within 48 hours for any donor who requests them via [email protected].
• Regular diary updates on this site showing what donations funded — real dates, real amounts, real items.
• Honest acknowledgment if anything goes wrong — if a price was misrecorded, if a purchase was different than expected, I say so.
• Single-account policy — one PayPal, one GoGetFunding, one set of crypto wallets, one website. No duplicates, no side accounts.
• Verification page kept current — donatetogaza.org/verification is updated whenever my situation changes.

Why I Keep Such Detailed Records

I keep detailed records because I am asking strangers across the world to trust me with real money. That trust is not earned by asking for it — it is earned by being accountable. A donor in Canada or the US or Germany who sends $50 to a person they have never met in a war zone they cannot visit deserves more than a thank-you message. They deserve proof.

I also keep records because they tell the story of our survival with more precision than words alone. The receipt for flour bought on April 18, 2026 at $38. The receipt for two formula tins on April 22, 2026 at $28 each. The water truck delivery on May 3, 2026 at $60. These are not charity statistics. They are my family's life, documented.

The Documentation Cycle: From PayPal Notification to Purchase Photograph

I want to walk through the complete documentation cycle for a PayPal donation, because this is the most common donation method and the one where donors can most easily verify delivery.

When a PayPal donation arrives, I receive an email notification and a push notification on my phone simultaneously. The PayPal transaction ID is visible immediately. I screenshot this notification and save it. Within 24–72 hours of receiving the donation (depending on whether I need to convert to local currency first), I make a purchase. I photograph the receipt — a handwritten Arabic document — alongside the goods purchased. I upload both the receipt photo and the purchase photo to my GoGetFunding campaign page under "Updates."

The chain from your PayPal account to a documented purchase in Northern Gaza typically takes 48–96 hours. It is not instant because currency conversion and local market access add steps, but it is not weeks either. Every significant donation has a corresponding purchase photograph within a week.

What Arabic Receipts Look Like and Why They Are Authentic

The receipts I photograph are handwritten documents in Arabic from local Northern Gaza vendors. They include: the vendor's name or shop identifier, the items purchased with quantities, the price per unit, the total, and the date. Some vendors also include a stamp.

I understand that donors who do not read Arabic cannot independently verify these documents. What they can verify: the date on the receipt should match or closely follow the donation date; the prices on the receipt should match the prices I publish on this website; the items should correspond to the category of spending (food, water, medicine, rent) I described. If you receive a receipt photograph and want a translation, email [email protected] and I will provide a line-by-line translation.

Fraudulent campaigns typically cannot produce this documentation because they are not in Gaza making real purchases. If you ask a fraudulent operator for a receipt photo of a specific purchase from a specific date, they will either provide a stock photo, a recycled image from another context, or go silent. I will provide the actual receipt photograph from that date within 48 hours.

Crypto Documentation: On-Chain Verification + Purchase Trail

Cryptocurrency donations have an additional layer of verification that PayPal does not: the blockchain. Every crypto transaction is publicly recorded on its respective blockchain. When you donate USDT TRC20, for example, your transaction hash is visible on Tronscan. You can see the sending address (your wallet), the receiving address (my published wallet), the amount, and the timestamp. This is immutable public record.

I publish my wallet addresses at donatetogaza.org/donate-crypto. If you donated and want to verify your transaction reached my wallet, search the transaction hash on the appropriate blockchain explorer (Tronscan for TRC20, Etherscan for ETH/USDC, blockchain.com for BTC). You should see my address as the recipient within minutes of your donation.

For larger crypto donations, I additionally provide a signed message from my wallet confirming receipt, if requested. This is a cryptographic proof that I control the private key of the receiving wallet — the strongest possible confirmation that the address is mine and that I received the funds.

Donor Questions I Have Received and My Actual Answers

Over the course of running this campaign, donors have asked me specific questions by email. I want to publish these questions and my answers here because they represent the real concerns donors have, and the answers reveal the mechanics of how this campaign operates.

"Can you show me a receipt for my specific donation on March 15?" — Yes. I pulled the PayPal transaction from that date, found the corresponding flour purchase receipt from March 16, and sent the photograph with an Arabic-to-English translation within 24 hours.

"How do I know you are still alive and in Gaza?" — A fair and serious question. I post regular video updates on my GoGetFunding page showing my current environment. I respond to emails in real time. The combination of real-time email response, regular video updates, and documented purchase receipts with current dates makes it effectively impossible to fake an ongoing presence in Gaza over months of documentation.

"What happens to donations if something happens to you?" — My wife knows the account credentials. If I am unable to manage the campaign, she will update donors directly. We have discussed this explicitly. The PayPal account and crypto wallets have written recovery instructions that she holds.

"Do any fees come out of PayPal donations?" — PayPal charges no fees on donations sent to the Donate button from within most countries. The full amount I publish as the PayPal target reaches my account with no deduction. For international transfers PayPal may charge the sender a small fee depending on their country, but the receiver (me) gets the full amount.

The Verification Page: Where Every Claim Is Documented

Every identity claim I make — Palestinian engineer, member of the Palestinian Agricultural Engineers Association, displaced in Northern Gaza, father of Ibrahim and my daughter — is documented at donatetogaza.org/verification. That page includes scanned registration documents, professional credentials, displacement records, and family documentation. It is the primary source for any due diligence investigation of this campaign.

If you have run through the verification process and still have a specific question that the verification page does not answer, email [email protected] directly. I check this email regularly and treat every serious verification question as an opportunity to provide additional evidence. Donors who ask hard questions are donors who care about where their money goes. That is exactly the kind of scrutiny I want applied to this campaign.

The Verification Ecosystem: How Multiple Signals Combine

No single proof element is sufficient on its own to confirm that a Gaza fundraiser is legitimate. Receipts can be forged. Photos can be stolen. Documentation can be fabricated by a sophisticated bad actor. What creates genuine verification confidence is the combination of multiple independent signals that would be nearly impossible to fake simultaneously over an extended period.

For this campaign, the verification ecosystem includes: PayPal transaction records (independently verifiable via PayPal), blockchain records for crypto donations (publicly verifiable on-chain), GoGetFunding campaign history (timestamp-verified public record), Arabic-language receipts from Northern Gaza vendors (authentic in content, date, and pricing), real-time email responsiveness (demonstrating active human presence), professional credentials from the Palestinian Agricultural Engineers Association (independently verifiable), and consistent cross-platform identity across all platforms for 12+ months.

A fraudulent operator could potentially fake one or two of these signals. Faking all of them consistently over 12 months would require extraordinary effort that is fundamentally incompatible with the goal of quick fraudulent gains. The cumulative verification signal of this campaign is substantially stronger than any single verification element.

What Happens If I Can No Longer Operate the Campaign

This is a question donors rarely ask but should. In a conflict zone, the operator of a fundraising campaign may become incapacitated, unreachable, or worse. I have planned for this contingency because my family's welfare depends on donors continuing to support us even in scenarios I cannot fully predict.

My wife has access to all campaign accounts — PayPal, GoGetFunding, email. She knows the passwords and understands the campaign operations. If I am unable to manage the campaign, she will post an update explaining the situation and continue operating the campaign. If both of us are unavailable, we have designated a family member outside Gaza who can access the accounts via written recovery instructions we have prepared.

The crypto wallets are secured with seed phrases that my wife has in written form in our possession. She can access and use these wallets independently. The PayPal account is registered under verifiable identity that any successor can use to continue operations.

I tell donors this because it is part of the complete picture of how this campaign is structured to protect donor intent. Your donation goes to my family's survival. That intent is protected even in contingency scenarios.

Transparency Report: What This Campaign Has Received and Spent

I do not publish full financial statements because the security context in Northern Gaza makes public disclosure of asset levels potentially dangerous. But I can share general parameters that give donors a sense of the campaign scale and how it operates.

The campaign has received donations from donors in multiple countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Malaysia, Indonesia, and several Gulf states. The donor base is genuinely international, reflecting the global reach of digital giving and the universality of the cause.

No single month has been fully covered by donations alone. The campaign consistently falls short of the $1,290 monthly target, with the gap covered by temporary reserve drawdown when reserves exist, or by rationing when they do not. The GoGetFunding campaign page shows cumulative totals. The current total, relative to the family's monthly needs, represents partial coverage — which is why ongoing donor support remains critical.

Every significant donation has a corresponding documented expenditure. This is my commitment to accountability. Not because accountability is legally required — there is no enforcement mechanism that could reach me in Northern Gaza — but because I believe it is the right way to treat people who trust me with their money.

Live Proof: How to Check the Current Campaign Status

The most current proof of campaign activity is the GoGetFunding page update history. This is a public record that I cannot retroactively alter — each update is timestamped by the platform at the time of posting. The sequence of updates, their content, and their consistency with the timeline of this campaign are the strongest single piece of documentation available.

Go to goget.fund/3VfYThz. Scroll through the updates. You will see: family photographs (original, not found elsewhere under other attribution), purchase documentation (flour bags, formula tins, water delivery context), and narrative updates describing specific events (the formula shortage in March, the baby's developmental milestones, Ibrahim's education progress). The updates form a coherent, specific, detailed record that is structurally incompatible with fraud — no fraud operation maintains this level of specific detail over this duration.

The second proof source is this website. Donatetogaza.org has been continuously maintained, with new content added regularly, for over a year. The website includes a verification page with professional credentials, a blog with first-person narrative articles consistent with each other and with the GoGetFunding history, and contact information that reaches a responsive human. This infrastructure cannot be faked over this timeframe.

The third proof source is direct communication. Email [email protected]. Ask a specific question about a specific event in the campaign history. Receive a personal, specific answer that demonstrates knowledge of the events described. This is the most direct proof available and it takes less than 48 hours to complete.

Three independent proof sources, all pointing in the same direction, over a period of more than 12 months. This is the documentation standard I have built for this campaign. Apply it to any fundraiser you encounter. The ones that meet this standard are the ones worth supporting.

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