Over the past 8 years, Shambala’s ‘Flags For…’ campaigns have raised over £47,000 for incredible causes.
This year, we’re raising funds for MAP – Medical Aid For Palestinians.
For every donation received, Shambala will fly a string of prayer flags on The Shambala Stage. This will create a striking and beautiful symbol of our support and prayers for the innocent Palestinian civilians caught up in this brutal conflict.
WIN TICKETS TO SHAMBALA 2024… OR SHAMBALA 2025!
If you donate £5 or more before midnight on the 15th August 2024, you’ll be entered into a prize draw to win TWO GENERAL ENTRY TICKETS TO SHAMBALA 2024. We’ll contact the winner by email on 16th August 2024. Already got your tickets for this year? Donate anyway, because it's a wonderful cause, and if you win, you can be a total legend and give them to a friend or family member.
If you donate £5 or more between midnight on August 15th and midnight on September 15th, you’ll win the FIRST TWO TICKETS TO SHAMBALA 2025. We’ll contact the winner by email on September 16th 2024.
100% of your sponsorship money will go directly to Medical Aid for Palestinians.
Shambala Festival will cover all the costs of buying, transporting and flying the flags – as well as donating £1,000 to the campaign.
Disclaimer: We feel it important to state that this campaign does not condone in any way, shape or form, Hamas’ actions on October 7th. We utterly condemn all acts of violence. This campaign is a response to the desperate needs of the innocent people trapped in this awful conflict. Fundamentally, to us, this is a humanitarian appeal, not political.
DONATION AMOUNTS...
£5: 1 entry into the prize draw
- Donate £5 before midnight on August 15th and you'll get 1 entry to win 2 tickets to Shambala 2024.
- Donate £5 between midnight on August 15th and midnight on September 15th, and you'll get 1 entry to win 2 tickets to Shambala 2025.
- £5 could buy supplies of paracetamol which is currently at zero stock in Gaza.
£10: 2 entries into the prize draw
- Donate £10 before midnight on August 15th and you'll get 2 entries to win 2 tickets to Shambala 2024.
- Donate £10 between midnight on August 15th and midnight on September 15th, and you'll get 2 entries to win 2 tickets to Shambala 2025.
- £10 could buy could pay for 2,000mg of lifesaving antibiotics
£25: 5 entries into the prize draw
- Donate £25 before midnight on August 15th and you'll get 5 entries to win 2 tickets to Shambala 2024.
- Donate £25 between midnight on August 15th and midnight on September 15th, and you'll get 5 entries to win 2 tickets to Shambala 2025.
- £25 could help buy 15 bloodline inlets for lifesaving blood transfusions.
£50: 10 entries into the prize draw
- Donate £50 before midnight on August 15th and you'll get 10 entries to win 2 tickets to Shambala 2024.
- Donate £50 between midnight on August 15th and midnight on September 15th, and you'll get 10 entries to win 2 tickets to Shambala 2025.
- £50 could pay for 6 drip bags for patients in cardiac arrest.
Why MAP?
- UNICEF have called Gaza the “most dangerous place to be a child.”
- Hundreds of thousands of civilians in Gaza have spent months living under unbearable conditions.
- Nearly 1 million women and girls are displaced, more than 38,000 Palestinians have been killed, and more than 88,000 injured.
- With essential infrastructure damaged, almost the entire population displaced from their homes, and the delivery of humanitarian aid severely restricted, infectious diseases and acute malnutrition are rampant.
- The scale of health needs has far outstripped the capacity of Gaza’s hospitals to respond, and the health system has all but collapsed.
How MAP are responding to this emergency:
- MAP have been working with Palestinian communities for 40 years. Their local team reacted quickly to this current crisis to save lives, and remain committed to helping preserve what remains of Gaza’s health system, ensure that health workers have the equipment and support they need to keep saving lives, and even begin to rehabilitate those hospitals that have been damaged.
- MAP's local team are themselves Palestinians from Gaza. Working in incredibly difficult conditions, they were the first to respond to the current emergency by releasing their pre-positioned stocks of drugs, medical disposables, and other humanitarian supplies held in their warehouses inside Gaza.
- MAP’s team in Gaza were among the first to respond to the current emergency and remain one of the only international organisations working to provide humanitarian and medical services, including in the north.
- As needs inside hospitals continue to grow, MAP is now procuring additional supplies locally. Where local stocks are unavailable, they seek to procure from outside Gaza and are working with UN and NGO partners to advocate for immediate, unimpeded, and safe access for humanitarian supplies and personnel into Gaza.
Do MAP’s projects actually make a difference?
MAP makes a huge difference. The projects MAP supports can mean the difference between life and death. Here are just a few examples of what MAP are able to do:
- MAP is able to get essential medicines to hospitals in Gaza when they are at zero stock and have run out.
- In the last month, they have launched a nutrition programme to protect 150,000 women, children, and others at risk of malnutrition, through frontline health services, nutrition screening, and prevention over the next two years.
- In order to help the 1.9million people displaced by this conflict, MAP have provided some $3 million USD worth of hot meals, blankets, hygiene kits, winter clothes, nutritious food packages, and over £250,000 of shelter supplies comprising tents, mattresses, and bed sheets.
- They are able to give Palestinian women living in refugee camps in Lebanon the one-to-one attention of midwives, to help them through difficult pregnancies.
- They equip people living in remote communities in the Jordan Valley with the expertise to provide basic life-saving skills in the event of a serious injury, to stabilise the injured until they can get medical help.
How do MAP ensure that the funds don't get into the wrong hands?
- MAP has robust systems and processes in place to identify and mitigate the risks of operating in difficult social, political, and legal contexts such as Palestine and Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, having worked there for 40 years.
- They conduct thorough and robust due diligence checks into individuals and organisations that MAP has formal partnerships with.
- Where MAP transfers money, equipment or medical supplies to partners, they conduct regular internal and external audits to ensure these reach their destination and are used for specific activities that further MAP’s charitable purposes.
- MAP keeps its due diligence procedures under continual review to ensure compliance with relevant legislation, including counter-terrorism law, and UK Charity Commission guidelines