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House fire that spread across the block in Rotterdam: help the Lakeview settlement rebuild
Neighbors in the Lakeview settlement are rebuilding after the house fire that spread across the block; every contribution goes to materials and supplies.
🇳🇱 Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands1,857 views
The house fire that spread across the block hit the Lakeview settlement on 17 July. My home was one of 60 damaged, and 12 families are still in temporary shelter at a borrowed warehouse.
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 $7,900 goes:
• Roofing sheets and timber: $3,750
• Clean water and purification supplies: $310
• Bedding, blankets and mattresses: $560
• Food parcels for displaced families: $1,700
• Tools and labor for repairs: $1,580
Thank you for reading my story.
Updates from Yvonne
Quick update: $1,019 raised so far (13%). we've booked the dates and paid the deposit. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.
Small update. $920 so far, the first invoice got paid this week.
- Asher Hicks 🇺🇸 · $10
- Nihal Songül Yalçın 🇹🇷 · $25
- Burcu Nihal Yavuz 🇹🇷 · $20
- Sarah Auma Mugisha 🇰🇪 · $5
- Anonymous 🇧🇷 · $5
- Naveen B. Srivastava 🇮🇳 · $72.50
- Kai Brennan 🇺🇸 · $25
- Büşra Selin Kurt 🇹🇷 · $25
- Anonymous 🇰🇷 · $500
- Onyango Mugisha Nakamya 🇰🇪 · $4.50
- Rima Samira Cherif 🇸🇦 · $10
- Chathurika Kumarasinghe 🇱🇰 · $25
“Hang in there. From Dehiwala with love.”
- Joost De Wit 🇳🇱 · $4
“Happy to help. Saw your post and had to give. - Rotterdam”
- Isabelle E. Singh 🇺🇸 · $20
“All the best. Thought of Yvonne all day after reading this. - Fort Worth”
- Ignacio S. Bravo 🇺🇸 · $30
“Hope this helps. Only $30 but hope it helps. - Warren”
- René Maxime Pons 🇫🇷 · $20
- Obinna Bolaji Hassan 🇳🇬 · $10
- Blessing Kemi Alabi 🇳🇬 · $75
- Álvaro T. Moreno 🇪🇸 · $200
- Amit B. Khanna 🇮🇳 · $25
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how is Yvonne doing now?
Wishing you peace. More neighborhoods should do this. Blessings
hope things get better soon, Yvonne. Gave what I could, wish it was more. I'm in engineering myself and wanted you to know we're cheering for you.
sending strength, Yvonne. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. My daughter saw me on my phone and now she wants to give her pocket money
is there anything that isn't money that would help Yvonne?
hope you get there. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. Thinking of Rotterdam.
Thanks for sharing this, Yvonne. Shared this with my family. Don't lose heart. A few weeks ago I was in a hole too and it changed faster than I expected. All the best.
It takes guts to ask. Well done. I'm in retail myself and wanted you to know we're cheering for you. All the best
what's already covered and what's the $7,900 for?
Roofing sheets and timber is $3,750 of it. Everything else is listed in the story and nothing outside that list comes out of this page. Thanks for looking so closely.
Hope it all works out. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. It's not much but it's yours. Blessings
More neighborhoods should do this. Sent it to 30 people at work.
Rooting for you, Yvonne. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Put this on a community board in Kadıköy this morning. Thinking of Rotterdam
praying for you. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Sent it to 25 people at work. Love from Tampa.
Hope it all works out, Yvonne. I hope things turn around soon. Blessings.
Wishing you peace, Yvonne. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Don't give up.
praying for you. Gave what I could, wish it was more. Take care
Thanks for sharing this. Looking forward to the next update. Greetings from Shinjuku.
Stay strong, Yvonne. Your post was clear and honest. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it.
Thanks for sharing this, Yvonne. Great idea, hope you get there. My husband and I read this together. Thinking of Rotterdam.