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Flood in Medellín: help the Orchard settlement rebuild
The flood damaged 54 homes in the Orchard settlement. We're raising funds for repairs, supplies and temporary shelter.
🇨🇴 050011, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia939 views
The flood hit the Orchard settlement on 2 July. My home was one of 54 damaged, and 12 families are still in temporary shelter at the local school gym.
The first few days we shared what little we had. Now the cleanup has started, but we've no money for materials and winter or the rainy season is coming.
Schools in the area have been closed, and the clinic lost its cold storage for vaccines. We're a small community of working families who have never asked for help before.
We have formed a volunteer committee, and I'm the treasurer, so I'll post receipts for everything we buy.
Funds go to building materials, water purification supplies, bedding, and food for families still in shelters.
Where the $650 goes:
• Food parcels for displaced families: $200
• Tools and labor for repairs: $175
• Bedding, blankets and mattresses: $275
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- Alejandra
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- Liam D. O'Doherty 🇮🇪 · $20
- Dua Hina Ali 🇵🇰 · $100
- Anonymous 🇧🇷 · $10
- Anonymous 🇬🇧 · $10
- Jin-woo Dae-hyun Kim 🇺🇸 · $5
- Cristian F. Duarte 🇪🇸 · $50
“Saw your post and had to give. - A Coruña”
- Peter Daniel Musyoka 🇺🇬 · $5
- Mazen Waleed Amin 🇪🇬 · $10
“Praying for you. I'm in Cairo, thinking of you.”
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $58.50
“Best of luck. Thought of Alejandra all day after reading this. - Los Angeles”
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $10
- Beatrice Muthoni Juma 🇰🇪 · $20
“Praying for you. From Kasarani with love.”
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Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Greetings from Adama.
your post was clear and honest. I hope October is when things finally get easier
keep going. I hope things turn around soon. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too. Greetings from Abuja.
it takes guts to ask. Well done. I went through something like this 12 years ago and strangers helped me out. All the best
how is Alejandra doing now?
hope it all works out. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Please keep us posted. Thinking of Medellín
great idea, hope you get there. Greetings from Kandy
Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Greetings from Los Angeles.
Take care, Alejandra. Great idea, hope you get there.