The campaign to fly food aid to Somalia in a Turkish Airlines plane reached its $1 million target in under 24 hours.
This week former Vine star Jerome Jarre started a campaign to fill a Turkish Airlines plane with supplies and fly to Somalia to help the victims of the famine there.
?MAINSTREAM MEDIA WON’T TALK ABOUT IT !!!
REVOLTING !!!
LET’S MAKE NOISE !!!#TurkishAirlinesHelpSomalia ? pic.twitter.com/iiyQrzyLC9
— JÉRÔME JARRE (@jeromejarre) March 15, 2017
After Jarre realised that Turkish Airlines is the only international airline that flies to Mogadishu, he urged people to tweet #TurkishAirlinesHelpSomalia to get the company’s attention in order to send supplies to Somalia.
Turkish Airlines became the first international airline to fly to Mogadishu airport in March 2012.
Last week the UN said that 6.2 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance in Somalia – almost half of the country’s total population.
Photograph: Feisal Omar / Reuters
Shortly afterwards, he was joined by more celebrities such as YouTuber Juanpa Zurita.
Necesitamos su ayuda. Hagamos una revolución juntos. Hagamos ruido y que todo el mundo se entere. #TurkishAirlinesHelpSomalia ? pic.twitter.com/yLoox6hdST
— JUANPA ZURITA (@ElJuanpaZurita) March 15, 2017
NFL star Colin Kaepernick.
And Hollywood actor Ben Stiller.
If you have 2 minutes and 20 seconds check this out. #TurkishAirlinesHelpSomalia pic.twitter.com/r0u3xh5spG
— Ben Stiller (@RedHourBen) March 15, 2017
#TurkishAirlinesHelpSomalia is trending now ?? pic.twitter.com/ljZxEY5rwx
— Fit-BoY (@Mustafa_RJ__) March 16, 2017
The campaign got the attention of Turkish Airlines.
We ❤Somalia. We got the call for this meaningful flight. @jeromejarre @redhourben @ELJuanpazurita #TurkishAirlinesHelpSomalia
— Turkish Airlines (@TurkishAirlines) March 16, 2017
And the company said it was in contact with the celebrities.
We care, talking with @jeromejarre @redhourben @chakabars @eljuanpazurita #turkishairlineshelpsomalia
— Turkish Airlines (@TurkishAirlines) March 16, 2017
In a video, one of the airline’s pilots said he was proud to be part of the campaign.
Ready for take off to help Somalia ❤ ✈ @jeromejarre @redhourben @chakabars @eljuanpazurita #LoveArmyForSomalia #TurkishAirlines4Somalia pic.twitter.com/srVkpDYi09
— Turkish Airlines (@TurkishAirlines) March 17, 2017
Jarre said a Turkish Airlines plane would be filled with 60 tonnes of food aid and flown to Somalia on 27 March.
INTERNET!! WE HAVE A PLANE!!
THIS IS HISTORY!!
NOW LET’S GET THE FOOD !!! ?
➡️ https://t.co/kxHgDzvNxY#LoveArmyForSomalia ? pic.twitter.com/6XBy5IWb9e
— JÉRÔME JARRE (@jeromejarre) March 17, 2017
Within 24 hours, the campaign’s GoFundMe page had reached its target of $1 million to pay for the food aid.
Gofundme.com
People are really happy about it.
On behalf of all somalis Thank you, Team #lovearmyForsomalia. We love you too. You’ve spoken for us while the mainstream media was silent
— Hashi M.D. (@SomPundit) March 18, 2017
So happy about Turkish airlines supporting Somalia!!! 60 tons of food and water!!! Man is good.
— Aviva Mongillo (@avivacm) March 17, 2017
No one tell me Twitter isn’t deep not after how Turkish airlines with Somalia happened.
— fgs (@taufleeqy) March 18, 2017
We only catching Turkish Airlines from now on yas TAKE MY MONEYYY pic.twitter.com/8Sh5vkCC8k
— Preeyoncé (@basedukhti) March 16, 2017
And praised the positive power of social media.
WOW social media is so powerful, a whole hashtag did that. I love it!!! God bless all those trying to help Somalia. ❤️❤️❤️
— زمزم ❥ (@zami_xx) March 17, 2017
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