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Tornado in El Paso: help the Lakeview settlement rebuild

After the tornado, families in the Lakeview settlement need clean water, roofing materials and bedding.

🇺🇸 El Paso, Texas, United States5,520 views
Mateo Crawford
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El Paso
The tornado hit the Lakeview settlement on 11 April. My home was one of 78 damaged, and 7 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. We buy supplies locally and in bulk, so the money goes further. Receipts and photos will be posted in updates. Where the $5,150 goes: • Bedding, blankets and mattresses: $1,400 • Tools and labor for repairs: $2,150 • Roofing sheets and timber: $1,600 Thanks for reading all this.
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Updates from Mateo

  1. Update from El Paso: I met with the suppliers and confirmed the amounts. We're at 43% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.

  2. Small update. $853 so far, we've booked the dates and paid the deposit.

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    “Thought of Mateo all day after reading this. - Cardiff”

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    “Best of luck. Hope this covers a bit of it. - Manukau”

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    “Hope it all works out. Thought of Mateo all day after reading this. - Johannesburg”

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    “Happy to help. My mother told me about this one. - Leeds”

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    “Best of luck. Gave what I could this week. - Lviv”

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    “Wish I could do more. Thought of Mateo all day after reading this. - San Jose”

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    “From my family to yours. Hope you get the rest soon. - Durgapur”

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  • Jerome N. GarciaPhoto verified

    thinking of you. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in.

    • Kinsley B. Hawkins

      Rooting for you. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. We're a small family in Cairns but we're thinking of you.

      • Nipa Sumaiya Uddin

        Stay strong, Mateo. Looking forward to the next update. Thinking of El Paso

        • Héctor A. MorenoPhoto verified

          Sending love, Mateo. Looking forward to the next update.

          • Dolores P. Díaz

            Good luck, Mateo. It takes guts to ask. Well done. My husband and I read this together

            • Bilal Bilal Aziz

              Thinking of you, Mateo. Looking forward to the next update. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too. All the best.

              • Bello Garba PopoolaID verified

                Thinking of you and your family, Mateo. This could happen to any of us. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust.

                • Nathalie Maëlle Fernandez

                  More neighborhoods should do this. Greetings from Seville

                  $3,836.50 raised of $5,150

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