Town of Tirúa, Chile
River in Tirúa, Chile
Tirúa is a little town on the coast of Provincia de Arauco in Chile and was hardly hit by the recent mega-earthquake (8.5 in Richter scale). Tirúa is not just another town, is the land and home of some mapuche (lafkenche) communities and was specially damaged not just because the earthquake itself, rather by an agressive increase of sea level that took extraforce because the water mass on the river, and destroyed great part of houses and public buildings such as police station, health services and firemen station.
Tirúa is hungry and the inhabitants have no home, or clothes, or telephone communication, or access to be helped soon. So we have to answer the devastation with a movement of hope.
I know that many of you in Netherlands, the States, Uruguay, España, Brazil and la France are thinking “HOW CAN WE HELP to our bros in Chile?”, “HOW CAN WE LET THEM KNOW THAT WE ARE ENGAGED WITH THEIR HOPE?”.
I know that many of you have leadership, are artistic talented or have a lot of contacts. So I wanna encourage you to organize everything that you feel that could help to collect money and hope for Tirúa (parties, concerts, phone contacts, campaigns). Let’s help to our mapuche people to re-build their roots with the land. Move your hope!.
If you collect money (no matter how much you can get, we need to re-build life in Tirúa step by step and you can give us a brick) please transfer the money to the international bank account of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits):
Bank Name: Citibank N.A.
Current Account Name: Compañía de Jesús
Bank Adress: 111 Wall Street, New York, New York 10043, USA
Number Account: 36897251
Code Bank ABA: 021000089
Code Bank Swift: CITIUS33
Please confirm the amount of donation and your name to Carlos Bresciani sj, who is coordinating help to Tirúa (he live in the Jesuit Mission right there) sending an e-mail to carlosbrescianisj@gmail.com.
Let’s go, people. Help Tirúa and move this everybody’s hope!
