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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, Italy2,565 views
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
Updates from Rita
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.
Thank you all. We're at 41% now ($1,130). I'm honestly stunned. we've booked the dates and paid the deposit.
Quick update: $564 raised so far (21%). we've booked the dates and paid the deposit. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.
- Ryan T. Thornton 🇺🇸 · $500
- Rafał Ryszard Michalak 🇵🇱 · $100
- Zoe Stavroula Papadopoulos 🇬🇷 · $100
- Elena A. Macaraeg 🇵🇭 · $100
“Sending love. Thought of Rita all day after reading this. - Manila”
- Brandon Bennett 🇺🇸 · $100
- Nilesh D. Pandya 🇮🇳 · $79
“Best of luck. Only $79 but hope it helps. - Salem”
- Hadi Ghassan Kamel 🇪🇬 · $76
- Amanuel Fasil Hailemariam 🇪🇹 · $75
- Avery W. Cook 🇺🇸 · $69
- Shirley G. Leonard 🇦🇺 · $65
- Wichai Anan Sirisuk 🇹🇭 · $50
- Anonymous 🇵🇭 · $50
- Isla W. Stevens 🇬🇧 · $50
- Ife Folake Ogunleye 🇳🇬 · $50
- Brooks B. Perry 🇺🇸 · $50
- Kathleen T. Bautista 🇵🇭 · $50
- Thomas Holloway 🇺🇸 · $50
- Víctor G. Velasco 🇲🇽 · $50
- Anonymous 🇬🇧 · $50
- Akua Eunice Osei 🇬🇭 · $50
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Great idea, hope you get there. I have a 17 year old who wants to send good wishes too. Blessings.
can I help in a way that isn't money? I'm near Salerno
Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. My neighbor in Malmö donated after I showed her your page.
hope things get better soon. Hope you get there. My mother had a similar thing happen so this one hit home. Love from Nagpur
keep going, Rita. Shared it with a few friends. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Take care.
Praying for you. Hope you get there. I went through something like this 14 years ago and strangers helped me out