Solidaridad con EL Salvador: Solidarity with People from El Salvador

Your support is requested...

by Francisco Segovia

EL Salvador, a country where its people must poses an iron will to endure bad governments, a 12 year long civil war and constant natural disasters (that in most cases are provoked and exacerbated by poor government and business environmental practices), is asking again for your Solidarity.

On the evening of Saturday November 7th heavy rains began falling on El Salvador as the storm moved through the region, causing rivers to burst their banks and mud slides in the hilly interior to bury homes and roads.

On Sunday morning, Salvadorians who weren't directly affected, including thousands residing in areas of high risk (who by mere luck were able to escape mother nature's revenge), woke up to the news that more than 120 people had been killed by floods and mud slides in El Salvador after a weekend of heavy rains driven by hurricane Ida. Authorities said 124 people had died and at least 60 were missing. About 7,000 more are in shelters.

Salvadorians and friends residing in Minnesota have joined efforts with church members of Our Lady of Guadalupe Anglican Catholic (Chicago, Illinois) and its Priest Father Jose Landaverde to send two semi-trucks full with clothes, food and medicine for the victims. In addition, two mobile clinics and staff to attend to the victims will be traveling down to El Salvador. See picture albums below.

The material aid and two clinics are valued at approximately 2 million dollars. The total cost of sending this aid to El Salvador is approximately $11,000. This money will pay for diesel, food and return airfare tickets for members of the humanitarian mission.

Brothers and Sister in Solidarity, I want to ask you for your tax deductible donation of $20 or more. With your financial help and the thousand s of people who have donated clothes, food, time etc. we will be able to bring this material aid to those facing hardship.

Your contribution is not going to change the historic systems of injustice, oppression and poverty in El Salvador. However, I assure you, it will send a strong message of hope and solidarity to our now fallen brothers and sisters in El Salvador, supporting their recovery from this tragedy and giving them the strength to get back to building a better society that respects all human beings.

This caravan and the distribution of goods is under the leadership and supervision of Reverend Jose Landaverde.

Financial donations (checks) can be made out to Comite Salvadoreno. I can pick up your donation or you can send it to:

Pillsbury United Communities-Waite House

Attn. Francisco Segovia

2529 13th Ave. South

Minneapolis, MN 550404

Thank you and In Solidarity,

Francisco Segovia, Director of Waite House Community Center-Pillsbury United Communities.

* This plea is not associated with Pillsbury United Communities.

Pictures.. Humanitarian aid