Please Help Disney Friend Lisbeth

I worked with Lisbeth for a year at Downtown Disney (now Disney Springs).

We were both cast members in the Disney College Program (DCP).

She returned to her lovely home in Puerto Rico after her program was over.

Over two months ago, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico as a Catagory 4 Hurricane with sustained 155mph winds and heavy floooding rain.

Lisbeth and her family lost EVERYTHING in Hurricane Maria.  Their house is gone, their jobs are gone, and the schools are closed.

She spends her days waiting on long lines looking for clean water and food.  But, there is no food or clean water!  FEMA "meals" in a bag are a joke.  You can get better food at your local gas station.

It is unbelievable that this is happening to American citizens.

Lisbeth and her family needs EVERYTHING.   Food, personal supplies, clothes, shoes.

We’re starting a Go Fund Me "emergency funds" page to help her family recover from both the hurricane and the US government’s lack of coordinated response.

No amount is too little to donate.

Please donate $5.00 if you can!

Thank you, friends.

You can read about Lisbeth’s day-to-day updates and struggles here: https://www.facebook.com/Lisy07


My friend Lisbeth (left) and her family.

Waiting on long lines yesterday for food and this is what she got:

Her dinner: The grocery store shelves are empty. She is living on cans of Chef Boyardee Beefaroni.



Empty shelves at every store!

(All photo credits:  Lisbeth Pacheco)
There is no food in any of the stores!

10/04: My little brother and me looking for gas. The sign says: "NO HAVE ICE, WATER, GAS"


Message from Lisbeth:
We need gas and food. I walk 40 minutes every day to my job where I can use a company vehicle to work. We need help with food. If you want to help me and my family directly with food, we need food that does not need to be cooked and not refrigerated, I'll thank you for that.

We also need candles to light up in the evenings especially while we bathe with a bucket of water. All this is very sad and depressing. We have received donations but Trump's government holds it at the docks while we are still hungry every day. We have not had light for a week and it is predicted that it will take 6 months to a year for all Puerto Rico to have electricity.

Right now the mail is closed. But it hurts me that they are sending donations and the donations sit in the port. We are hungry and the Trump government does not care. I have four brothers, my mom and my stepfather. I have an 11 year old brother and 13 year old brother who is autistic. My sister is 29 and my other brother is 26. We, along with my stepfather, are the ones that go out looking for everything for my mom and my little brothers.  We need food and water and gasoline.

This is a small island not a big country that has 48 states together. I do not have 48 options to go out and get food. I write this to you with tears in my eyes. It is shameful to ask for food and more to be mailed to us as if we could receive it here. Trump wants to let us starve.

People have died in hospitals because some hospitals have been left without diesel.  Diesel that is in the ports and that the damn president does not let dispatch. We know we are second-class citizens but we do not deserve to be treated like this.
(FEMA emergency food distribution locations.)

We have to line up for food and water every day.The grocery stores aren't open and the gas stations have no food left.

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Walmart has 56 stores on Puerto Rico and is working day and night to get them back open.  (Many have now reopened with limited hours and stock.)

We have been sending Lisbeth and her family weekly food care packages.

Remember, no donation is "too small" when you've lost everything!!!!

We are asking all our friends to donate $5.00 today.

THANK YOU ALL!