monoukotori:

For any person who want to know why we ask you to help by donating to Topos, let me tell you a story

32 years ago, Mexico city was completely destroyed by a earthquake, and I mean COMPLETELY.

My mom was voluntary while she was in college, and told me that people were living on the streets, without food or water because they lost everything. She told me that the city smelt awful because of all the bodies buried underneath

People were living like this for months

The president showed up THREE days later and didnt take inmediate action. They didnt look for the victims that were still alive under the buildings, didnt give the population food water or shelter.To this day, Miguel de la Madrid is know as “the

absent president of the earthquake“

Other countries donated food, water and camping tents. These things were never given to the people. There was a scandal in where there were found warehouses full of french and english camping tents after the goverment told the people they didnt have any. These things were presumably sold later

The people was in despair, they where abandoned by the goverment and started to take action by themselves.

the people took
their donations to the site of the earthquake by themselves as they
knew that the government would steal the donations if given to them

Ordinary people without training were entering the destroyed buildings, risquing their own lives while looking for people. Some of these people never got out. But the ones who got out saved lives, lives that the goverment didnt care about

These people then would form the
non-profit Mexican rescue team

Topos Tlatelolco (Moles of Tlatelolco)

Since 1985, the Topos have assisted rescue and recovery efforts in over twenty-two countries, and are the first ones to show up when a natural disaster strikes

You can read more of what they have done here

We trust in them because we know their story, story that I wanted to share with you