SOMOS Mexico: Earthquake Fund
Donation protected
October 2nd.
13 days after the earthquake.
We have hand delivered:
Over a ton of freshly made hot food
25,000 pieces of new clothing
5,000 pairs of shoes
750 hygiene packets
5,000 blankets
500 pairs of socks
And countless of other items.
Your HELP contributes instantly.
We are looking to help 20 families who lost a loved one by providing emotional support therapy, funeral costs and a small fund for living (most family members who perished were the bread winners for each family)
Please Help reach a goal of $25,000 USD for the 20 families.
Thank you!!
Hello and thank you for taking the time to read this. Thirteen days Into the search and rescue here are nine bodies yet to be recovered.
We have provided around the clock help directly at the scene of the collapse. Your donations will continue to provide food, clothing, profesional counseling and much more to the people affected by this terrible tragedy.
PLEASE HELP
thank you!
Dozens of people are still trapped in the collapsed Obregon 286 office building in Mexico City. Crews, volunteers by the thousands working around the clock in a titanic and gruesome labor all under the incessant watch of hundreds of family members whow are camped out awaiting news of their loved one. PLEASE HELP IN THE RELIEF EFFORTS
Sept 24
Ground zero crew taking turns to catch a nap.
Volunteers getting a personal ID mark and name before taking their shift atop the damaged structure
This is a fund relief "triage" created so that we can assist all those affected by the September 19th Mexico Earthquake. Donations received here will be channeled, in real-time to the"Stories" or fund beneficiaries like emergency workers, rescurers, survivors, children, families, victims, animals/pets and all other who have been directly or indirectly affected by the tremors. We are getting endless requests to help as emergencies are popping up all over the Country, from entire towns tumbled, familes who lost loved ones plus their entire belongings, hundreds of pets hurt, lost or homeless...there are enldess little ways we can touch a heart and help it begin to heal! we greatly need your support to continue helping those stories that are voiceless, that are hurt and in cases, alone.
This fund is created in U.S. dollars so with the currency exchange, a little will go a long way. It will continue raising goals so long there are Stories to fund (and those never cease).
This tragedy is just begining. Long after the crisis subdues, volounteers will steer back to their daily lives, people will got back to their lives yet the displaced, the homeless, the less fortunate, the survivors and the survived by's will still be in shock as they slowly realize that their lives have been altered forever, that they are not only emotionally broken but that they lost everything they ever owned as well...at those moments we plan to be there; today and as the days turn into weeks and months and HELP is needed the most we want to reach, touch and help as many lives possible.
Wear the MEXICO bracelet and show you care!
Thanks to one of our donors, we are pledging a MEXICO hand-made Huichol beaded bracelette for donations starting at $55 and a Huichol beaded jaguar head for donations of $550 and up. Please allow crafts to ship January 2018, we will reach out for shipping details.
STORY: Bibiana Ruíz, 37
(Bibiana center wearing black)
Lost everything when her building collapsed, gladly neither her nor her daughter where there. Bibiana had 3 adult turtles, Rosa Maria, Fabiola and Juana of about 15 years old. We where able to rescue Juana who suffered a hole in her shell and a punctured a lung. She was operated on twice by Dr Carlos Garcia and thankfully is now recuperating. There is a wide active search to find her other 2 turtles which we have reason to believe also survived.
Your donations will:
Buy Bibiana and her daughter clothes, personal items, situate them in a pet friendly shelter, a turtle habitat, food, cover vet costs and help her get up on her feet again!
Bibiana's apartment building collapsed Sept 19th 2017
Juana was found in the rubble 4 days later
Vet Carlos Garcia has been working without charging!
FUND: Rubble rescued Pet Shelter
We will bring you updated stories of how we are helping.
**URGENT MEXICO EARTHQUAKE RELIEF FUND**
Monday, September 25th, 2017
45 people still trapped in the rubbles left by a combination of 3 earthquakes that hit Mexico in the last 3 weeks, the one leaving more damage being the temblor of September 19th, 2017.
PLEASE HELP US HELP THE LEAST FORTUNATE, TO HELP THOSE WHO LOST IT ALL. WE MAKE SURE YOUR DONATIONS ARE FELT IMMEDIATLEY AND THINGS GET TO THOSE WHO NEED IT. IN THE STREET OF ALVARO OBREGÓN NO 286 COLLAPSED LEAVING 45 PEOPLE TRAPPED. RESCURERS, VOLOUNTEERS REQUIRE TOOLS AND HARDWARE, TECHNOLOGY AND EQUIPMENT TO RESCUE THE TRAPPED.
WE ARE A BAND OF MEXICAN CITIZENS WHO HAVE WITNESSED THE TRAGEDY FIRST HAND. WE ARE AT THE SOURCE AT GROUND ZERO PROVIDING AID IN REAL TIME. YOUR HELP WILL CONTRIBUTE INSTANTLY AND WILL PROVIDE LATER NECESSITIES MANY OF THEM BASIC, FOR THE DISPLACED AND HOMELESS.
A magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck central Mexico at 1:17pm on Tuesday September 19th. The terremoto has left more than 300 people dead, with residents, Army, Red Cross, Navy, Federal Police, rescuerers from near and far working through the night searching for survivors in piles of rubble from collapsed buildings around Mexico City's Condesa, Roma, Hipódromo, Lindavista and other surrounding neighborhoods. Tragedy and damage also hit the next door states of Puebla, Guerrero, Morelos and Oaxaca where people there hit the low poverty line, in the town of Jujutla, Morelos alone, 95% of homes have been lost and 98% of commerce has disappeared!
In an eerie anniversary thirty-two years ago to the day, on Sept. 19, 1985, a magnitude-8.0 earthquake killed more than 10,000 people in Mexico City, like then this past September 19th 2017 volunteers poured into the streets by the thousands, many of us rapidly our heads around rushed memories from the '85 terremoto, took the streets and set up command orchestrating everything from traffic, to buckets of rubble; aid arrived by the tons, nobody working arm in arm knew the person handing them buckets of rubble, nor even knew who they where diggin for, yet a sense of brotherhood immersed and took over color, religion and social status, rich or poor, at that point we where one, we where brothers and sisters, young and old, working at arms length, creating human chains, obeying directions coming from handheld megaphones operated by civilians and in a whif a mass social movement was in full throttle and since that day has yet to show any signs of slowing down.
1:17pm Moment the earthquake happened
view towards Roma-Condesa-Hipódromo where dust is raised by the collapse and damage to structures including office building Alvaro Obregón #268 and docens of homes and apartment complexes.
There is much too much to do for people who lost the little they had left as natural disaster after natural disaster hit empovrished towns and vulnerable communities. As this alone wasn't enough, two weeks earlier, a powerful 8.1-magnitude temblor shook the ground. Both earthquakes occurred amidst a major hurricane swirling in the Atlantic.
All in all Mexico was hit by 3 earthquakes above 6-magnitud in September alone and has witnessed more than 1000 replicas that are all but shaking both people and structures.
The human loss is heartbreaking as the stories behind each victim and survivors that are raising as testaments that shake us to the core. In all true Mexican resilience, the on-going rescue efforts are still going on after more than 130 hours afree, all sites that still bare signs of life or trapped victims will not stop until all missing people are rescued and found.
The psychological toll will be tremendous and must be ready to support our fellow brothers and sisters and make sure they are provided with the proper help.
The dispalecement will be overwhelming. More than 3,000 buildings in Mexico City only. Sustainable, safe new buildings will need to be erected while supplying temporary shelter, provisions, healthcare to those who lost everything and those who's homes have been condemned by Public Safety Comission and cant return to rescue their belongings.
Pet lives matter. Resources are scarce to shelter and aid pets that have been found, dogs, parrots, even a turtle have been found, their owners mostly alive, scrambling to find their best friends across a chaotic city and makeshift kiosks ill prepared to handle this magnitud crisis. Veterianarians have donated time and hospitals but the help has been such that there has been a large number of cases being attended too. We will help build immediate triage to aid the most harmed and shelter them all making sure they return to their owners.
This has been my experience thus far...all material photos/videos taken by me @mfastlicht
Sept. 19th, 2017 4:00pm
Calle Amsterdam & Laredo
Sept 20th,2017
Sept 21-22
13 days after the earthquake.
We have hand delivered:
Over a ton of freshly made hot food
25,000 pieces of new clothing
5,000 pairs of shoes
750 hygiene packets
5,000 blankets
500 pairs of socks
And countless of other items.
Your HELP contributes instantly.
We are looking to help 20 families who lost a loved one by providing emotional support therapy, funeral costs and a small fund for living (most family members who perished were the bread winners for each family)
Please Help reach a goal of $25,000 USD for the 20 families.
Thank you!!
Hello and thank you for taking the time to read this. Thirteen days Into the search and rescue here are nine bodies yet to be recovered.
We have provided around the clock help directly at the scene of the collapse. Your donations will continue to provide food, clothing, profesional counseling and much more to the people affected by this terrible tragedy.
PLEASE HELP
thank you!
Dozens of people are still trapped in the collapsed Obregon 286 office building in Mexico City. Crews, volunteers by the thousands working around the clock in a titanic and gruesome labor all under the incessant watch of hundreds of family members whow are camped out awaiting news of their loved one. PLEASE HELP IN THE RELIEF EFFORTS
Sept 24 Ground zero crew taking turns to catch a nap. Volunteers getting a personal ID mark and name before taking their shift atop the damaged structure This is a fund relief "triage" created so that we can assist all those affected by the September 19th Mexico Earthquake. Donations received here will be channeled, in real-time to the"Stories" or fund beneficiaries like emergency workers, rescurers, survivors, children, families, victims, animals/pets and all other who have been directly or indirectly affected by the tremors. We are getting endless requests to help as emergencies are popping up all over the Country, from entire towns tumbled, familes who lost loved ones plus their entire belongings, hundreds of pets hurt, lost or homeless...there are enldess little ways we can touch a heart and help it begin to heal! we greatly need your support to continue helping those stories that are voiceless, that are hurt and in cases, alone.
This fund is created in U.S. dollars so with the currency exchange, a little will go a long way. It will continue raising goals so long there are Stories to fund (and those never cease).
This tragedy is just begining. Long after the crisis subdues, volounteers will steer back to their daily lives, people will got back to their lives yet the displaced, the homeless, the less fortunate, the survivors and the survived by's will still be in shock as they slowly realize that their lives have been altered forever, that they are not only emotionally broken but that they lost everything they ever owned as well...at those moments we plan to be there; today and as the days turn into weeks and months and HELP is needed the most we want to reach, touch and help as many lives possible.
Wear the MEXICO bracelet and show you care!
Thanks to one of our donors, we are pledging a MEXICO hand-made Huichol beaded bracelette for donations starting at $55 and a Huichol beaded jaguar head for donations of $550 and up. Please allow crafts to ship January 2018, we will reach out for shipping details.
STORY: Bibiana Ruíz, 37
(Bibiana center wearing black)Lost everything when her building collapsed, gladly neither her nor her daughter where there. Bibiana had 3 adult turtles, Rosa Maria, Fabiola and Juana of about 15 years old. We where able to rescue Juana who suffered a hole in her shell and a punctured a lung. She was operated on twice by Dr Carlos Garcia and thankfully is now recuperating. There is a wide active search to find her other 2 turtles which we have reason to believe also survived.
Your donations will:
Buy Bibiana and her daughter clothes, personal items, situate them in a pet friendly shelter, a turtle habitat, food, cover vet costs and help her get up on her feet again!
Bibiana's apartment building collapsed Sept 19th 2017Juana was found in the rubble 4 days laterVet Carlos Garcia has been working without charging!FUND: Rubble rescued Pet Shelter
We will bring you updated stories of how we are helping.
**URGENT MEXICO EARTHQUAKE RELIEF FUND**Monday, September 25th, 2017
45 people still trapped in the rubbles left by a combination of 3 earthquakes that hit Mexico in the last 3 weeks, the one leaving more damage being the temblor of September 19th, 2017.
PLEASE HELP US HELP THE LEAST FORTUNATE, TO HELP THOSE WHO LOST IT ALL. WE MAKE SURE YOUR DONATIONS ARE FELT IMMEDIATLEY AND THINGS GET TO THOSE WHO NEED IT. IN THE STREET OF ALVARO OBREGÓN NO 286 COLLAPSED LEAVING 45 PEOPLE TRAPPED. RESCURERS, VOLOUNTEERS REQUIRE TOOLS AND HARDWARE, TECHNOLOGY AND EQUIPMENT TO RESCUE THE TRAPPED.
WE ARE A BAND OF MEXICAN CITIZENS WHO HAVE WITNESSED THE TRAGEDY FIRST HAND. WE ARE AT THE SOURCE AT GROUND ZERO PROVIDING AID IN REAL TIME. YOUR HELP WILL CONTRIBUTE INSTANTLY AND WILL PROVIDE LATER NECESSITIES MANY OF THEM BASIC, FOR THE DISPLACED AND HOMELESS.
A magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck central Mexico at 1:17pm on Tuesday September 19th. The terremoto has left more than 300 people dead, with residents, Army, Red Cross, Navy, Federal Police, rescuerers from near and far working through the night searching for survivors in piles of rubble from collapsed buildings around Mexico City's Condesa, Roma, Hipódromo, Lindavista and other surrounding neighborhoods. Tragedy and damage also hit the next door states of Puebla, Guerrero, Morelos and Oaxaca where people there hit the low poverty line, in the town of Jujutla, Morelos alone, 95% of homes have been lost and 98% of commerce has disappeared!
In an eerie anniversary thirty-two years ago to the day, on Sept. 19, 1985, a magnitude-8.0 earthquake killed more than 10,000 people in Mexico City, like then this past September 19th 2017 volunteers poured into the streets by the thousands, many of us rapidly our heads around rushed memories from the '85 terremoto, took the streets and set up command orchestrating everything from traffic, to buckets of rubble; aid arrived by the tons, nobody working arm in arm knew the person handing them buckets of rubble, nor even knew who they where diggin for, yet a sense of brotherhood immersed and took over color, religion and social status, rich or poor, at that point we where one, we where brothers and sisters, young and old, working at arms length, creating human chains, obeying directions coming from handheld megaphones operated by civilians and in a whif a mass social movement was in full throttle and since that day has yet to show any signs of slowing down.
1:17pm Moment the earthquake happened
view towards Roma-Condesa-Hipódromo where dust is raised by the collapse and damage to structures including office building Alvaro Obregón #268 and docens of homes and apartment complexes.
There is much too much to do for people who lost the little they had left as natural disaster after natural disaster hit empovrished towns and vulnerable communities. As this alone wasn't enough, two weeks earlier, a powerful 8.1-magnitude temblor shook the ground. Both earthquakes occurred amidst a major hurricane swirling in the Atlantic.
All in all Mexico was hit by 3 earthquakes above 6-magnitud in September alone and has witnessed more than 1000 replicas that are all but shaking both people and structures.
The human loss is heartbreaking as the stories behind each victim and survivors that are raising as testaments that shake us to the core. In all true Mexican resilience, the on-going rescue efforts are still going on after more than 130 hours afree, all sites that still bare signs of life or trapped victims will not stop until all missing people are rescued and found.
The psychological toll will be tremendous and must be ready to support our fellow brothers and sisters and make sure they are provided with the proper help.
The dispalecement will be overwhelming. More than 3,000 buildings in Mexico City only. Sustainable, safe new buildings will need to be erected while supplying temporary shelter, provisions, healthcare to those who lost everything and those who's homes have been condemned by Public Safety Comission and cant return to rescue their belongings.
Pet lives matter. Resources are scarce to shelter and aid pets that have been found, dogs, parrots, even a turtle have been found, their owners mostly alive, scrambling to find their best friends across a chaotic city and makeshift kiosks ill prepared to handle this magnitud crisis. Veterianarians have donated time and hospitals but the help has been such that there has been a large number of cases being attended too. We will help build immediate triage to aid the most harmed and shelter them all making sure they return to their owners.
This has been my experience thus far...all material photos/videos taken by me @mfastlicht
Sept. 19th, 2017 4:00pm
Calle Amsterdam & Laredo
Sept 20th,2017
Sept 21-22
Organizer
Michaelle Fastlicht
Organizer
Los Angeles, CA
