Hello dear!
Here in Santiago, the situation is normalizing, almost all offices and shops are open, and yet most of the churches.
Here and there are still people living in tents, where they lived because the buildings are uninhabitable, but as always dictated by circumstances not under construction, made without complying with the laws here are very strict earthquake (also unless there are controls to verify compliance) or saving on iron and cement.
too Curicó the situation is much improved with regard to the emergency, which remains mainly in small towns in the country, not so much in the city. But the destruction is so great, especially in the old city. The images you see in Italy are just starting to Curico, and going to the south of Chile (a country's 5,000 km long), in an area ranging from 200 to 600 km south of the capital Santiago. To the north of Santiago, Copiapo included, so far there had been no damage, even if this night had a strong quake epicenter as a city 800 km north of Copiapo, with a little 'damage and some wounded.
the south the situation is quite dramatic, even more because of the tsunami that the earthquake, and has hit the small towns along the coast, which are also the hardest to reach and less supplied with provisions. A
Concepción instead, which is a very large city, has already been restored and security are coming aid.
started to respond to many of you asking me how we can help, I can say that the country is moving in a massive way to collect food and clothes to send to the quake-hit areas.
From early in the week the churches and some other places have become points di raccolta, e soprattutto da oggi a domenica ci saranno varie iniziative a reti televisive unificate (la cosiddetta Teletón). Con la pastorale giovanile e la pastorale solidale saremo impegnati in questa raccolta... appena potrò vi invierò qualche foto.
Ma la nostra preoccupazione, come della Caritas e della Chiesa cilena, è soprattutto rivolta al dopo, alla ricostruzione. Già sappiamo che tra un mese saranno meno gli aiuti e le iniziative, ma molte le famiglie ancora senza casa e bisognose di cibo. Inoltre finora c'è stato il sole ad aiutarci, ma tra un po' arriva la stagione delle piogge per la gente del sud.
In questo senso abbiamo pensato che, senza fretta e nei limiti delle possibility, we ask for your help raising funds that will be used in a few weeks, relying on the Caritas or associations in the meantime we will guarantee, and thus help the reconstruction in the devastated areas.
not hide the concern is more personal, if less urgent, to have to begin restoration work in our own church of Santiago, who have not had a structural collapse, it will need a good job to restore its reliable and friendly .
In this regard, I invite you to click here to see photos of damage to the church .
In conclusione, per quanti volessero fare qualsiasi tipo di offerta (deducibile), possono specificare la causale "PER TERREMOTATI CILE" nel conto corrente della Caritas Antoniana: C/C 12 74 23 26
intestato a: PPFMC Caritas S. Antonio - Onlus,
Via Donatello, 21 - 35123 Padova
oppure fare un bonifico bancario al Cod.IBAN: IT05 S050 1812 1010 0000 0505020
di Banca Popolare Etica con la stessa intestazione e identica causal specified above.
Thanking you in advance for how you can help with your prayers and / or your aid, I greet you on behalf of all the brothers in Chile
fr.Christian
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