FAQ Topic: About Us
Who holds you accountable?
We’re held accountable by various partners:
Our community – we hold ourselves accountable first and foremost to our communities, both those we support on the ground and our donors. Since we launched TSP, we have documented all our work and provided consistent updates through our...
Why aren’t you registered as a charity or company?
We operate as an unincorporated mutual aid group, so we are not registered as a legal entity. Initially, this was because we weren’t expecting to last very long – we assumed a genocide would be internationally condemned and quashed and our aid would only be needed temporarily. As we’ve...
Why are you called The Sameer Project?
In January 2024, the uncle of one of our cofounders was killed in the genocide, and upon his daughter’s request, the project was named after him to honor him. The Sameer Project is dedicated to all the martyrs of Gaza.