Hi there,

I'm collecting founds for my friends Olivier, Leon and Manu, who lost their house, car, campervans, and the last 5 years of hard work on their land.

Sunday around noon a fire started in the forest 20km away from Barão de São João - Portugal.

Not long later, the valley where they live just behind the village was evacuated.

Them being away they could not save anything - valuables, memories, ..

Thanks to a huge work from the firefighters the fire didn't pass the village.

Not everyone was lucky and a few people saw their place burnt out.

Olivier and Leon lost their house and everything they owned, Manu his car, both their campervans and their 10ha land is almost all burnt.

From now on, it will start a long process of cleaning, getting rid of everything that burnt then starting to rebuild.

It will take a lot of time and energy but also a lot of money.

This is why I'm calling for the help of the community. If you want to help you can donate through this page. Any money would help a lot.

The money will serve to clean the land and bring everything to the recycling centre, buy pipes and electric cables to plug back the water pump and solar panels, get Manu a car so he could go to work again and rebuild Olivier's house.

Something also we may not think of, is all the trees that's burnt will need to be cut and moved away, which is massive on a 10 Ha land.

Olivier Leon and Manu are all three actives members of Barão Polo Club and are always the first to help the people in need.

If you tried the Medronho at the European bikepolo championship this year it came from the fruits of their land !

Thank you everyone for your kindness and generosity

Love,

Mass.