Thank you to everyone who’s reached out expressing support for our team and asking how they can help support with Hurricane Iota relief, especially for our communities in Nicaragua. The past two days, our team has been working with our communities most impacted by Iota on identifying needs and assembling a community relief plan – an action plan. We believe each community knows its own needs best, and through our relationships with local leaders, our team is in a unique position to create a hurricane relief plan for communities in Nicaragua that will work directly for the community it’s meant for.  We’d like to help address urgent needs by providing basic food and supplies to families as needed, mental wellness in the wake of trauma, and keep kids on track to achieve their education. But we need your help to accomplish this, so we’re opening our #GivingTuesday campaign early.

In tandem with local leaders, we developed these two main points of our Hurricane Iota relief plan:

1. Basic food, clothing, supplies, and temporary shelter at our schools as needed.
2. Mental wellness in the wake of trauma through healing circles, support from psychologists and counselors, and through radio programs, which will be implemented in partnership with our content development partner, Barrilete.

We’d like to put out a call to action to give what you can. Coffee communities, church communities, Alianza advocates, we need your support. We know this year has been hard for all of us, and the best way to make the world brighter is to help someone else. Now is the time to offer a helping hand to one another.

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November 21, 2021 Update:

Community leaders came up with a plan, and you all donated your time and money, and together we:

1. Provided aid for over 100 families across 6 communities.
2. Since many families lost their homes, and many others were displaced by torrential rains and landslides, we opened our schools to serve as shelters while families rebuilt.
3. We assembled and distributed 3,700+ basic kits with clothes, blankets, food, hygiene kits, and medicine.
4. We also handed out 2,000 school kits to help recover from the loss of school supplies and time in class.
5. To help with the long term impact, we developed and ran ‘Healing After Trauma’ programs and support groups for the communities who were impacted.