Update 25/september/2017
Thankyou so much for the people who donated this week!!! Here is the last donation sent to the red cross.
The rescue missions are still on, and several replica earthquakes have caused more damage to houses and buildings leaving more families homeless and adding to the rescue missions. Thanks for helping us support all the heroes saving lives and giving hope to those who loosed everything.
Update, 20/September/2017
Donation to topos, rescue brigade group done! We are very excited the donations are keep going. Thankyou so much for your support!
We also want to make a big call to the heroes of the Mexican hema community who have been rescuing people from buildings, bringing food, sharing information, and providing all their time and heart to help people in need
Update: 20/09/2017
Showing how critical the situation is in Mexico, we will be sending the donations periodically as they accumulate.
We will also extend the donation to the organization TOPOS (moles) who started spontaneously 32 years ago as a rescue brigade in the earthquake of 1985. They have gone all over the world since then to help rescue people on disaster areas and are again, helping where they started. However, it seems like their site is saturated and it’s hard to access their donation link at www.topos.mx so the donation will depend on the access to the site.
in less than 13 hours we have received the amount of 429 USD!!! Making a total of 740 USD, this is around 12,863 Mexican Pesos!!!
Remember that with your donation you are also participating on the raffle to win a Cold Steel Bluckler.
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As many of you might know, Esfinges started in Mexico, by Mariana López from León, Guanajuato. And Ruth Garcia from Guadalajara, Guadalajara.
In the past weeks, Mexico has been hit by several natural disasters in both, one of the poorest areas in the country (Chiapas), and one of the most populated cities in the world (Mexico City) and all the states nearby. Causing the death of now probably hundreds of people. Fires caused by gas explosions, loosing of energy, lack of food, damaged houses, and fully collapsed buildings. Just as I write this post. There are people searching online for volunteers to search for people trapped in the collapsed buildings, and doctors to treat them. The earthquakes of 8.2 and 7.1 on the Richter scale are likely to create replicas. Added to this, Baja California, in the north of Mexico, got heavily damaged by the Lidia storm also during this month causing floods, and it’s expecting another one in about 1 to 2 weeks.
This is why Esfinges has decided to donate money to the people suffering in Mexico. However, Esfinges founds are very limited and can currently afford to only donate 300 USD. We would like to, at least, be able to double that amount. Esfinges donation will be made immediately and a second donation made with the HEMA community support will be made a week from now.
The donations will be made through the Mexican Red Cross, one of the few institutions in Mexico who has proven to be honest and always on the help.
If you wish to donate through us, you can send us your donation through PayPal to esfinges1@gmail.com
If you do not wish to donate through us you can do it directly on their Website: https://www.cruzrojamexicana.org.mx/
So far no HEMA member in the country has been reported as damaged, in case this occurs, part of the donation will be directly given to a HEMA family member in need.
Whether you donate through us or through the red cross, you will be automatically participating in the raffle of a Cold Steel Buckler. However, if you donate directly through the red cross website, you will have to submit a screenshot with the confirmation of your payment to the e-mail: esfinges1@gmail.com
If we can save money to buy swords and gear, we can surely afford to donate 5 USD to people in need.
Thank you so much.
Mariana López R.
Esfinges co-founder.
The link for PayPal goes to the Spanish language version. Any chance you can also add a link to the English PayPal, for those of us who want to contribute from our phones?
Unfortunately the Mexican red cross site only runs in spanish, how ever you can donate through Esfinges.
If you do not wish to do so, we will still consider donations to the American red cross for the people in Miami as valid for the raffle.
https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation
Helping is helping at the end of the day 🙂
If you’re accessing the PayPal link from a computer, there’s a dropdown box in the upper right corner that allows you to select language. That dropdown doesn’t seem to appear on phones.