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UpDate: NOV 26 2020 (espanol abajó)
Thank you for your continued support in the community of Puerto Escondido. We are grateful for your generosity and with it have been able to provide continuous support for the community with food and health items to local families in need for the last 8 months! We are working on a holiday campaign, with the aim of raising $1,760 more USD to reach our goal of $20,000 to provide “holiday despensas” (food packages and deliveries) for community members in need. A donation of $50 will feed a family for the holidays. These include our basic food and hygiene supplies, as well as extra holiday food items and toys/ game for kids. We are also taking in-person donations of toys, Boys, clothing, and games for kids if you are located in Puerto (contact us for drop off Tu/Th 5:30-7 pm in La Punta). We will offer these extra despensas to the families we have been serving for the last 8 months who continue to have the most need and are still struggling. If you are able please consider donating to the families of Puerto to help bring a bit more joy and comfort this holiday season.
Gracias por tu continuo apoyo en la comunidad de Puerto Escondido.
Estamos agradecid@s por tu generosidad y con ella hemos podido brindar
apoyo continuo a la comunidad con alimentos y artículos de salud a las
familias locales necesitadas durante los últimos 8 meses!
Estamos trabajando en una campaña navideña, con el objetivo de
recaudar $ 1,760 USD más para alcanzar nuestra meta de $ 20,000 (total
recaudado y diseminado desde avril) para ofrecer “despensas navideñas”
para los miembros de la comunidad que lo necesiten. Una donación de
$50 usd alimentará a una familia durante las fiestas. Las entregas
incluyaran nuestras despensas básicas de alimentación e higiene, así
como artículos adicionales de comida festiva y juguetes / juegos para
niños. También estamos aceptando donaciones en persona de juguetes,
niños, ropa y juegos para niños si te encuentras en Puerto
(comuníquete con nosotros para dejarlos los martes / jueves 5: 30-7 pm
en La Punta). Ofreceremos estas despensas adicionales a las familias
que hemos estado sirviendo durante los últimos 8 meses que continúan
teniendo la mayor necesidad y aún están luchando. Si puedes,
consideres hacer una donación a las familias de Puerto para ayudar a
traer un poco más de alegría y comodidad en esta temporada navideña.
September 23 2020 UPDATE
We are now 6 months into our Community Food Bank Project! We continue to support local community member with weekly despensas. The economy has began to open, slowly, but with many businesses still closed, at limited capacity and with workers at reduced wages, so the need for support continues. Luckily, cases have been low but more travel into the area mean continued support and vigilance is necessary. We have been able to sustain in your generosity for 6 month, but have now spent 95% of funds. We are working on pivoting our focus to more families with elder and sick. We are also working on a outside silent auction/donation street fair to continue to generate funds and local involvement.
To date:
- We have delivered a total of 2,426 despensas, feeding
somewhere around 12,000 people in Puerto Escondido, in 60different
colonias/neighborhoods.
- We have provided despensas for the
staff of 23 restaurants & hotels, who have been unable to keep
their staff on at full pay because of the quarantine measures and
decrease in tourism.
- We have provided food items to a local
hotel who is providing cooked meals to hundreds of locals.
- We
have delivered 47 "special despensas" for individuals &
families who have Covid-19 or have been exposed to it and need to
quarantine - these despensas include 2-3 weeks of fresh produce,
meats, immune-boosting herbs, ginger and garlic, and vitamins &
supplements.
- We have provided despensas to some mountain
communities who were impacted by the recent earthquake.
- We are
supporting 14 elderly & sick individuals in the community weekly
with despenasa.
-We have collected donated clothes to bring into communities along with despensas.
-We have helped organize weekly tamale, food and plant sales with local families with sick family members to help them raise money for medical fees.
-We are working with a local mountain community to help them organize small hike and waterfall tours to help support their local economy.
We have an INCREDIBLE rota of volunteers who we couldn't do this without - and the same goes to YOU, our generous donators and supporters who are enabling us to continue helping the people of Puerto Escondido.
If you have not yet donated (or if you already have and are feeling exceptionally generous) please do consider making a contribution to our fund, a donation of as little as $20 can purchase a "regular despensa" and feed a family for a week or 2.
Once again a huge THANK YOU to everyone who has supported us so far, and PLEASE continue to do so!
29 de julio ACTUALIZACIÓN
¡Ya llevamos casi 4 meses en nuestro Proyecto del Banco Comunitario
de Alimentos! Hasta la fecha:
- Hemos entregado un total de 1915
despensas, alimentando a unas 8000 personas en Puerto Escondido, en 48
colonias / vecindarios diferentes.
- Hemos proporcionado
despensas para el personal de 23 restaurantes y hoteles, que no han
podido mantener a su personal con el sueldo completo debido a las
medidas de cuarentena y la disminución del turismo.
- Hemos
proporcionado alimentos a un hotel local que está proporcionando
comidas cocinadas a cientos de lugareños.
- Hemos entregado 39
"despensas especiales" para individuos y familias que tienen
Covid-19 o que han estado expuestos a él y necesitan estar en
cuarentena. Estas despensas cuentan de productos frescos, carnes,
hierbas inmunoestimulantes, jengibre, ajo, vitaminas y
suplementos.
- Hemos proporcionado despensas a algunas
comunidades de montaña afectadas por el reciente terremoto.
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Estamos apoyando a 10 personas mayores y enfermas en la comunidad.
Tenemos una rotación INCREÍBLE de voluntarios, sin los cuales no podríamos hacer esto, y lo mismo va para USTEDES, nuestros generosos donantes y simpatizantes que nos permiten continuar ayudando a la gente de Puerto Escondido.
Si aún no ha donado (o si ya lo ha hecho y se siente excepcionalmente generoso), considere hacer una contribución a nuestro fondo, una donación de tan solo $20 usd, puede comprar una "despensa regular", y alimentar a una familia durante 1 o 2 semanas
El número de casos aquí está aumentando, y con el distanciamiento social muy difícil de lograr (con a veces 2 o 3 familias numerosas viviendo en un hogar), nuestras "despensas especiales" tienen como objetivo contener la propagación tanto como sea posible. Estas despensas son mucho más caras debido a los artículos de alta calidad incluidos y al hecho de que pretenden durar más tiempo (el período de cuarentena / aislamiento).
Una vez más, ¡GRACIAS a todos los que nos han apoyado de una manera u otra hasta ahora, y POR FAVOR continúen haciéndolo!
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June 25 Update: Thank you All ! We have been going 3 months strong on this campaign and food bank project. Working 6 days a week with more than 20 volunteers we have been able give out 1,400 food and hygiene boxes (despensas) to date. (With a despensa size averaging for a family of 4-6 we estimate to have helped feed close to 6,000 people). We have also donated to personal health emergencies, and food to a local restaurant who is serving free hot meals to hundreds. We have collected clothes and goods to take to communities in the mountains, who depend on the local economic of Puerto as well. In the last 2 weeks COVID has finally hit our little town, with deaths and new cases. We have shifted our focus to providing high quality despensas including fresh produces, meats, dairy, eggs, vitamins, herbs, spices, supplement all to help combat symptomw and strengthen the immune system for families who have lost loved ones or been diagnosed with COVID-19. Since this is a small town our team personally knows these locals families and we have been working with deep compassion and care to bring these despensas then them. We are offering social distance support, listening and resources in this time, when they are isolated and grieving, quarantined from other families members and friends and unable to practice normal cultural death rituals. This is providing much needed emtional and finanical support. We also are helping keep our community safe by encouraging these families to stay in the home and not be forced to leave for supplies. ALL of this is possible because of your generous support. All of us at Sembrando Buenas Semillas Food Bank and the communuty of Puerto Escondido THANK YOU !
May 20 UPDATE: THANK YOU ALL! With your help we have fed more than 900 families so far! But this is not over yet, and now more than ever we need your support! Due to the Covid crisis, food prices have risen significantly, so each dollar gets us less than it did at the start. We are close to the end of our funds for this project, and we are asking YOU to help us continue!
This is an emergency fundraiser for Sembrando Buenas Semillas - Banco de Alimentos (Food Bank) La Punta to provide essential food and despensas to at risk families and individuals within the community of Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico during the COVID_19 health crisis and government shut down. Additional funds will go into a monetary relief fund. Our local economy is and will continue to be deeply impacted by business, our tourist town coming to a halt right before the busiest holiday of the year (semana santa).
Who we are: We are a grassroots group of volunteers and concerned community members who have partnered with a local volunteer run grassroots organization @Sembrandobuensemillas who have been serving the local community for the past 5 years here in Puerto Escondido, providing goods, foods, and human compassion to the most vulnerable members of our community. We are all 100% volunteer run with no overhead or administrative costs. Every dollar or peso donated goes directly to helping those in need.
In the last week, alone we have secured and set up a donated bodega dispensa (store front) space to support @sembrandoBuenasSemailas to organize, pack and distribute food and essential supplies for the community. A group of 5 of us have already raised more than $29000 pesos (1200 dollars) just from our personal network vias social media. We have mobilized to create a growing spreadsheet of community members in need, that have contacted us personally via word of mouth during these stressful times. Yesterday, we distributed 60 personal care packages and 70 food boxes!
Sembrando Buenas Semillas means “planting good seeds” in Spanish and started out as a heart based community outreach program, 5 years ago, with founder Jose Luis donating backpacks to school children in the neighborhood. Jose Luis and his team of 10 + local Mexican volunteers continued to grow distributing hundreds of backpacks and later, dispensas, food, company and goods. Part of their mission is to provide in-home support, human connection and dignity to each community member they support. They make home deliveries to our most vulnerable members of the community, the elderly and sick, talk to them and share what they can, often out of their own pockets. They also serve the families in the hills and out of town, who are even more economically dependent on the local tourist economy then towns folks themselves. We have chosen a partnership with this group because of their already established community efforts. We are networking to fundraise, organizing to connect them with more community members in need, providing a space to organize and listening with our hearts. We are very aware of well meaning but misguided foreign support that often occurs during campaigns and crises with outsiders imposing systems and idealism, and thus we are fundraising and organizing with a local organization created by locals to support locals.
We are asking YOU, in this stressful time, to consider helping us water these good seeds of support so we can nourish our community from the bottom up. We understand many of us feel financially tight, scared of the future and unsure in the moment. So do we. But we are also incredibly aware of our privilege, the ability to fall back on savings, work from home or online, potentially receive family or governmental support. Our community members do not have that. Like most of the world, there is a 30 day embargo on most work, hotels, stores, restaurants, bars, schools, beaches here in Mexico. And unlike most of the world, there are no unemployment options here in Mexico, very little government support, no formal healthcare system, people truly live day to day without savings. We are amazed at the resiliency of the locals and reminded of our own privilege and access to community and resources. So those of us with networks are leveraging our privilege and reaching out to YOU, our community members and extended network, specifically to ask for your support. This is humans helping humans, which is really the most effective and direct means of support. Dollars go far here in Mexico. Of course we would all like to hope all governments help their citizens, but in the meantime people are hungry. And we the people have the power to change that. Help us! Juntos somos poderosos.
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Estamos elaborando una recaudación de fondos de emergencia para la asociación Sembrando Buenas Semillas - Banco de Alimentos - La Punta, donde proporcionaremos alimentos esenciales y despensas a familias e individuos en riesgo dentro de la comunidad de Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, México que están haciendo frente a la crisis de salud COVID_19 y también para prevenir cualquier eventualidad como el cierre de negocios y establecimientos decretado por el gobierno estatal.
Los fondos adicionales que sean recaudados y no sean destinados a la compra de despensas y alimentos irán a un fondo adicional de emergencia para salvaguardar cualquier eventualidad.
Nuestra economía local se ve y seguirá siendo profundamente afectada, especialmente a los negocios locales, nuestra ciudad turística cesará actividades justo antes de las vacaciones más solicitadas del año (semana santa).
Quiénes somos: Somos un grupo de voluntarios y miembros de la comunidad preocupados que se han asociado con un voluntariado local dirigido por la organización @Sembrandobuensemillas que ha estado sirviendo a la comunidad durante los últimos 5 años en Puerto Escondido.
La misión de Sembrando Semillas es proporcionar bienes, alimentos y compasión humana hacia los miembros más vulnerables de nuestra comunidad. Todos somos voluntarios al 100% sin gastos generales ni gastos administrativos. Cada dólar o peso donado va directamente a ayudar a los mas necesitados.
En esta última semana, hemos asegurado y establecido gracias a una donación, un espacio destinado como bodega para las despensas (frente de una tienda) para apoyar a @SembrandoBuenasSemailas para organizar, empacar y distribuir alimentos y suministros esenciales para la comunidad.
Dentro de nuestra agrupación, 5 de nuestros integrantes ya ha recaudado más de $ 29,000 MXN pesos ($1,200 dólares) solo de nuestra red personal a través de las redes sociales. Seguimos movilizándonos y hemos creado una hoja de cálculo donde hay un creciente número de miembros de la comunidad que siguen necesitados, los cuales nos han contactado personalmente. ¡Ayer distribuimos 60 paquetes de cuidado personal y 70 cajas de comida!
Sembrando Buenas Semillas comenzó como un programa humanitario buscando apoyar a la comunidad desde el corazón. José Luis es su fundador y lleva haciendo labor comunitario por 5 años, en sus inicios, donando mochilas a niños cursando sus estudios en el vecindario. José Luis y su equipo de más de 10 voluntarios mexicanos continuaron creciendo y distribuyendo cientos de mochilas y más tarde, despensas, comida, compañía y bienes.
Parte de su misión es proporcionar apoyo en el hogar, generar una conexión humana y fortalecer la dignidad de cada miembro de la comunidad que apoyan. Hacen entregas a domicilio a nuestros miembros más vulnerables, ancianos y enfermos, hablan con ellos y comparten su tiempo, muchas veces solventando los gastos directamente de sus propios bolsillos. También brindan atención a las familias en las zonas rurales, que dependen aún más económicamente de la economía turística.
Hemos estrechado alianzas con esta asociación debido a sus esfuerzos comunitarios y a su distinguida trayectoria para apoyar de forma humanitaria. Estamos trabajando con nuestros familiares y conocidos para recaudar fondos, y queremos establecer una red para conectarnos con más miembros de la comunidad que lo necesiten, brindando un espacio para organizar y escuchar con nuestros corazones.
Somos muy conscientes del desconcierto que puede producir el apoyo extranjero, aunque este sea bien intencionado, ya que a menudo, ocurre que se puedan generar sistemas e idealismos ajenos a los intereses comunitarios, por lo tanto estamos recaudando fondos y organizándonos a traves de una asociacion local ya prestablecida.
Le pedimos a USTED, en estos momentos de angustia, que considere ayudarnos a regar mas semillas de apoyo para que podamos nutrir a nuestra comunidad.
Entendemos que muchos de nosotros nos encontramos financieramente desestabilizados, temerosos del futuro e inseguros, nosotros estamos en la misma posición, pero también somos increíblemente conscientes de nuestro privilegio, la capacidad de recurrir a los ahorros, trabajar desde casa o en línea, potencialmente recibir apoyo familiar o gubernamental. Los miembros de nuestra comunidad lamentablebente no tienen acceso a ninguna de esas facilidades.
A la par de lo que esta ocurriendo en la mayoría del mundo, hay un cesion laboral de 30 días en la mayoría de las fuentes de trabajo de nuestra comunidad incluyendo: hoteles, tiendas, restaurantes, bares, escuelas, playas, etc. A diferencia de otras partes del mundo, no hay apoyos para el desempleo aquí en México, el apoyo gubernamental es mínimo, y no existe un sistema de salud formal, la gente realmente vive al dia y sin ahorros.
Estamos asombrados de la resilencia de los locales y esto nos hace recordar nuestro propia situacion privilegiada y acceso a recursos. Aquellos de nosotros que contamos con dichas fuentes estamos aprovechando nuestro privilegio y por consiguiente nos encontramos contactandolo a USTED, los miembros de nuestra comunidad y a la red extendida de apoyo que pueda emerger, específicamente para solicitar su apoyo. Se trata de humanos que ayudan a humanos, que es realmente el medio de apoyo más efectivo y directo. Los dólares rinden mucho más en México y un pequeño apoyo es muy significativo en nuestra comunidad. A todos nos gustaría esperar que los gobiernos ayuden a sus ciudadanos, pero mientras tanto hay gente que esta pasando hambre. Nosotros, la comunidad, tenemos el poder de cambiar eso. ¡Ayúdanos! Juntos somos poderosos.
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