More than half a million Puerto Ricans were still without power last Friday morning after a series of earthquakes and tremors shook the island earlier this week. Since the first quake, my colleagues and I on the ground have been working with organizing groups on the frontlines of relief efforts.

 

To address immediate needs, we will move rapid response donations through the Maria Fund to our network of social justice initiatives and grassroots community organizing groups  to support the people most impacted by the recent earthquakes.

 

Please make a donation to urgently support Puerto Rican families now.

The series of strong earthquakes that shook the southwest area of ​​the archipelago of Puerto Rico caused an island-wide blackout, and caused structural damage to hundreds of buildings, schools, and main roads. An estimated 4,400 people have been housed in shelters, and thousands more have pitched tents in their backyards.

 

Your critical support will go directly to local organizations that have stepped up to organize needs assessments including delivery of emergency supplies, service brigades to refugee camps, legal education, emotional support, and demanding equitable and systemic changes to improve their immediate and long-term reality.

 

We’ve seen that in moments like these, it is the people and our networks of solidarity that TAKE ACTION and make a difference. Resources need to move immediately. We urge our families in the diaspora and members of our social justice movement community to support us and the organizations that we, and many of you, trusted after the 2017 hurricanes - the same ones that are stepping up again.