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Salerno flood relief - the Riverside neighborhood

After the flood, families in the Riverside neighborhood need clean water, roofing materials and bedding.

🇮🇹 84151, Salerno, Campania, Italy2,564 views
Rita Veronica Gentile
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Salerno
The flood hit the Riverside neighborhood on 24 July. My home was one of 26 damaged, and 14 families are still in temporary shelter at a mosque and church hall. 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. We buy supplies locally and in bulk, so the money goes further. Receipts and photos will be posted in updates. Where the $2,750 goes: • Clean water and purification supplies: $590 • Bedding, blankets and mattresses: $890 • Food parcels for displaced families: $1,270 You're what makes this possible, and I'll never forget it. - Rita
#disaster-relief#rebuild#community#disaster

Updates from Rita

  1. Quick update: $1,804 raised so far (66%). I made the first payment toward bedding, blankets and mattresses. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.

  2. Thank you all. We're at 41% now ($1,130). I'm honestly stunned. we've booked the dates and paid the deposit.

  3. Quick update: $564 raised so far (21%). we've booked the dates and paid the deposit. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.

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  • Anonymous 🇲🇽 · $25
  • Omar Mazen Ghanem 🇪🇬 · $10

    “God bless. Thought of Rita all day after reading this. - Heliopolis”

  • Rafał Ryszard Michalak 🇵🇱 · $100
  • Anonymous 🇪🇸 · $30
  • Sangeetha B. Raju 🇮🇳 · $25

    “God bless. Only $25 but hope it helps. - Thrissur”

  • Ryan T. Thornton 🇺🇸 · $500
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  • Emilia W. Jenkins 🇬🇧 · $10
  • Mohammad Arif Das 🇮🇳 · $25
  • Raphaël Garcia 🇫🇷 · $25
  • Zara Bushra Lodhi 🇵🇰 · $10

    “Keep your head up. Thought of Rita all day after reading this.”

  • Wichai Anan Sirisuk 🇹🇭 · $50
  • Santiago D. Orozco 🇨🇴 · $20

    “Stay strong. I'm in Bucaramanga, thinking of you. - Bucaramanga”

  • Anonymous 🇵🇭 · $50
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  • Rony Habib Khatun 🇧🇩 · $25
  • Raffaella Martini 🇮🇹 · $25
  • Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $10

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  • Ruth FernandezPhoto verified

    Great idea, hope you get there. I have a 17 year old who wants to send good wishes too. Blessings.

    • Mwangi Wekesa KimaroQuestion

      can I help in a way that isn't money? I'm near Salerno

      • Mangesh Pawar

        Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. My neighbor in Malmö donated after I showed her your page.

        • Radu Octavian Toma

          hope things get better soon. Hope you get there. My mother had a similar thing happen so this one hit home. Love from Nagpur

          • Nomsa C. Mazibuko

            keep going, Rita. Shared it with a few friends. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Take care.

            • Lawrence H. Long

              Praying for you. Hope you get there. I went through something like this 14 years ago and strangers helped me out

              $3,042.50 raised of $2,750

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