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From Wednesday, October 12th to Tuesday, October 18th, Book Riot volition beryllium matching donations to Taller Sallud for hurricane alleviation successful Puerto Rico, up to $2,500 USD. Read connected to spot wherefore why we’ve chosen to enactment this enactment and for instructions connected however to donate.
On September 18th, Hurricane Fiona made landfall successful Puerto Rico. The Category 1 tempest brought grounds rainfall, flash flooding, mudslides, and sustained winds of 85 miles per hour, tearing disconnected roofs, collapsing bridges, and ripping up sidewalks earlier an island-wide powerfulness outage near Puerto Rico’s 3.3 cardinal residents successful the dark. While powerfulness has been restored for some, up to 100,000 residents are inactive without powerfulness implicit 2 weeks later. According to the island’s wellness department, as galore arsenic 25 deaths person been linked to the storm.
Sadly, Puerto Rico is inactive recovering from the past clip a hurricane tore done the island. Fiona comes astir precisely 5 years aft Hurricane Maria near 3,000 Puerto Ricans dormant and PR’s energy strategy successful shambles (a strategy that was fraught since earlier either of the storms came to pass). Read that again: 3,000 dead, an full island’s powerfulness wiped. Maria was 1 of the astir devastating earthy disasters successful 100 years, yet the Trump administration’s effect to the lawsuit was to withhold $20 cardinal successful hurricane relief. In spite of this draconian abandonment of American citizens successful the aftermath of specified profound tragedy, FEMA officials importune accidental they’ve learned a large woody from Maria and are successful a overmuch amended spot to respond to Fiona. Others importune determination is inactive a agelong mode to spell some successful preparedness and post-hurricane response.
Progress oregon not, thousands of Puerto Ricans stay displaced and successful request of contiguous aid. That’s wherefore we astatine Book Riot person chosen to enactment Taller Salud, a assemblage based feminist enactment dedicated to improving women’s entree to wellness care, to reducing unit wrong the assemblage and to promote economical maturation done acquisition and activism successful Puerto Rico.
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Here’s a small connected their caller efforts:
- In 2017, Taller Salud was preparing to manus retired nutrient and supplies successful the aftermath of Hurricane Irma erstwhile connection came that Maria had intensified into a Category 4 hurricane. The enactment upped its effect and organized assemblage efforts and communal assistance initiatives, adjacent during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the improvement of a assemblage usher for exigency preparedness.
- Immediately pursuing Irma and Maria, Taller Salud conducted a lodging survey successful Loíza, a municipality connected the northeastern seashore of Puerto Rico deed peculiarly hard by the storms. When the hurricane play began successful 2022, they released the results of the survey showing that “100% of the homes successful the 7 censused communities were successful conditions of vulnerability to a earthy improvement and 30.6% were inactive roofed with bluish tarps.”
- Taller Salud has publically denounced the deficiency of enactment from the Department of Housing and authorities arsenic a full to guarantee Puerto Ricans’ close to decent housing, demanding “the contiguous cancellation of the abusive declaration of LUMA Energy, contiguous accommodation successful the energy measure for consumers, a governance exemplary that maintains the energy work arsenic a nationalist good, and an urgent absorption connected the restructuring of existent vigor procreation to renewable energy.”
- Now successful the aftermath of Fiona, Taller Salud has erstwhile again spearheaded a catastrophe response. They’ve opened 2 assemblage kitchens to service 500 meals a day, assessed captious request done a assemblage census tool, and are advocating for inclusion of each municipalities (read: not conscionable the affluent tourist-heavy areas) successful the catastrophe designation zone. They’ve besides launched a Hurricane Relief Fund to supply indispensable goods and drinking h2o to thousands of families. More connected that effect successful the video below.
Taller’s Salud’s scope and ngo goes acold beyond hurricane relief. They besides run programs focused connected reproductive justice; governmental acquisition and advocacy; harmless betterment and lodging campaigns; and younker justice. They are moving to trim gender-based unit affecting Afro-descendants and to dismantle toxic masculinity. They are a pillar successful their assemblage moving regular to code the inequities facing the citizens of Puerto Rico, contiguous and beyond the hurricane aftermath.
Today done Tueday, October 18th, Book Riot volition beryllium matching donations to Taller Sallud for hurricane alleviation successful Puerto Rico, up to a max donation of $2,500 USD. To participate, upload a representation of your receipt for your donation successful the signifier beneath (you tin redact idiosyncratic information). Check backmost adjacent week, and we volition upload our receipt to amusement however overmuch we’ve raised together! Thank you for joining america successful this cause, and click present to implicit your donation.
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