Giving Compass' Take:
- Chase Williams lays out 10 statistics demonstrating how communities in Mexico banded together to recover from the destruction of two massive earthquakes in 2017.
- What can we glean from these numbers that could help future disaster relief efforts?
- Read about supporting disaster relief and recovery.
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9-7-17 + 9-19-17
The dates that hundreds were killed and countless homes, schools, and community buildings were destroyed after two devastating earthquakes struck central and southern Mexico. Within one day of the first earthquake, GlobalGiving launched its Mexico Earthquake Relief Fund.
4,386,241
The total amount of US dollars raised by more than 18,200 individuals in the GlobalGiving community to support Mexico earthquake relief since 2017. People from across the world—including award-winning actor Jaime Camil—joined together in solidarity to fuel this long-term response.
80
The number of GlobalGiving grants made through the Mexico Earthquake Relief Fund to more than 30 different vetted nonprofit partners based in and working in communities in central and southern Mexico impacted by the earthquakes.
24
The number of grassroots, women-led organizations across Mexico our partners at Fondo Semillas supported through the Women Rebuilding Their Communities program.
Read the full article about Mexico’s earthquake recovery by Chase Williams at GlobalGiving.