On September 19th a devastating earthquake killed at least 250 people in Mexico. At least 69 were killed in the state of Morelos. Many people were living in remote communities on around the volcanoes close to Mexico City. So far they are not getting any assistance from the government. Many people are sleeping next to the ruins of their houses.

An emergency shelter is being built in Hueyapan and we need volunteers, tools and supplies to build the shelter along with food and medicines. This project is run by the Sahridaya community who have provided a refuge for volunteers to stay in in Tepoztlan.

Every donation counts here. This is a community run project so no money will be going to big charities. The aid is going straight to the local community which was badly affected by the earthquake but not receiving the international media coverage that Mexico City is.

This is a high altitude area of Mexico with extreme weather at times. It can get very cold and wet at times and people have been left without shelter, food and medical supplies.

Even if you sacrifice a £5 bottle of wine, it will be much appreciated as every little helps

HERE IS AN UPDATE FROM THE LADY HEADINNG UP THE RESCUE EFFORTS

Hi John, THANK YOU SO MUCH from the depths of our hearts. Incredibly quick summary is that we are just back from hueyapan, morelos where we spent the day assesing the situation and tomorrow we will issue a report at noon tepoztlán time

there is already overflowing of food supplies but there is lack of specialized medicines like those for diabetes; also, super super urgent is people to come and put their hands on the ground to help in removing fallen houses (around 500 in hue)

we are using currently all cash donations for gasoline and food for the convoys of volunteers, as well as hosting them, but more importantly, to buy the tools and the equipment for temporary shelters, this is an immediate need, because the people are sleeping next to the ruins fo their houses, most towns don´t have shelters yet and the ones that do , people don´t wanna go for fear of losing what little left they have... it´s rainy season... this is the most immediate need

my thought is to implment further deeper help in the coming weeks, asembling a brigade of love to bring, psichotherapists, yoga and meditation teachers, for post traumatic relief...

i was breastfeeding my 1 year old when it started. bricks started falling on us, i had to get up quickly run to the garden outside the house... it was so powerful... running to get my kids from school (they were fine), 3 hurs of total blackout of communications in the town, no wifi, no light, no 3g, no landlines, no mobile service at all, not knwing how it was in mx city where we have family or anywhere else, if itwas that strong here... so we are all recovering from the shock and now doing the best we can to reach those in need directly and asap

i didn´t see ONE ambulance today, one military convoy, one civil protection service, no one... it was all civilians driving their particular cars, some of them directly from costco bringing food to the towns...

not so quick summary

we´ll keep in touch thank you for being!!!!

ONE LOVE

Is