Aid Bruna after California wildfire tragedy

Our most recent past Au Pair, Bruna, left our family in July 2024 to experience all that California had to offer. During her year with us, she had created some beautiful memories with our kids and truly loved them with all her heart, as our kids did too. When applying to the program from Brazil, it was her dream to see both coasts of the US in her two year Au Pair cultural exchange program. From Sharon MA, she moved to Pacific Palisades to a new host family with three children.

On January 7, 2025, the wildfires in California devastated Pacific Palisades and the home where Bruna’s host family lived burned to the ground. The family had ten minutes to collect their belongings before evacuation. Bruna left the house with only the clothes she was wearing and her passport. Bruna and her host family are thankfully safe now, staying with family members in another part of California.

When Bruna left Brazil, she took with her everything that could fit in two suitcases and donated all that remained in Brazil to families in need after the Brazilian floods. In the US, she accumulated clothes and special keepsakes from her travels during her au pair year. She has been left with absolutely nothing. Every possession that she had went up in flames with the home. As we have all heard, most insurance companies have pulled out of California, and this is true for the house that Bruna lived in.

This situation, while horrific for all families, has been especially tragic for Bruna who is living in a country that is not her own, and has lost all that she has owned in this world.

Please help Bruna; any contribution, big or small, will help her rebuild her life again.