Honduras Student Movement Hurricane Relief
Hurricane Eta hit Honduras on November 4th, 2020 devastating and displacing many communities, communities who were already suffering immensely from the covid-19 pandemic. Communities all over Honduras are springing into action to help each other - to buy food, blankets, water for their neighbors who have lost everything.
They are saying "los vecinos son los únicos que están ayudando." The neighbors are the only ones who are helping.
My name is Miguel Angel Giron, I am 24 years old I am a student activist. I need to raise funds to be able to help my Honduran brothers who, today, are suffering and mourning the devastation that Hurricane Eta has left in my country. I hope you can help me with this fundraiser for the people in Honduras who, right now, are sleeping the street.
The impacts of Hurricane Eta have devastated much of Honduras, but particularly the northern and eastern areas of the country. Entire communities are flooded and, according to government figures, more than 30,000 people have been forced from their homes. Thousands of people seek refuge in shelters within schools, gyms, municipal parks, homes of family and friends, etc.
Heavy rains have stopped in most of the critical areas affected by the climate disaster, but the government has ordered massive evacuations in low-lying regions as rivers originating in western Honduras where the storm continues to rise continue to rise and flooding. More people are forced to leave their homes and seek refuge or seek higher ground, with the minimum of their possessions. It caused severe flooding and landslides by heavy rains in Honduras after entering from Nicaragua on Wednesday and leaving a balance of at least 24 dead and thousands of victims in the region.
I currently I live in the United States, I am an asylum seeker, and I am working with student activists who are there helping the people in Puerto Cortés, Olancho, and Tegucigalpa. With this fundraising, we will buy groceries, blankets, tents, beds, and water since there are many people who are sleeping in the streets with children- whole families that, today, have nothing because of this storm. We will be splitting the money between the three areas where my friends are organizing mutual aid, and they will make sure that we help as many of these families have food and a dry place to sleep as they live through this crisis.
Transparency:
The funds will be withdrawn by my co-organizer, Shannon Flynn, who helped me set up this page. I met Shannon two years ago when she helped me with my asylum application, along with other organizers from the immigrant rights movement. The funds will then be immediately be transferred to my classmate, Gladis Hernandez, who will facilitate the purchase of groceries, tents, blankets, and water in Cortés, Olancho, and Tegucigalpa where members of the student movement live, work, and have deep community ties. The reason for this transfer is that Gofundme does not support Honduran bank accounts. Photos of supplies purchased will be uploaded throughout the campaign.
