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Buy what's missing, close to where it's needed, with a receipt for every peso.
Where to take it
The tremor was over in a minute, but for thousands of families in the Eje Cafetero the emergency came back every morning. The relief work of those first days is done: aid was received, sorted and delivered, and every peso was accounted for. Now the hard part begins: rebuilding.
That is why we closed the collection point and stopped taking money while we account for what was raised. If you want to be part of this stage, write to us: help is no longer a bag of groceries, it is a roof, a classroom, whatever a family still needs to move back home.
More than 1,400 families lost their homes. What came in became food, water and medicine, and each item was recorded with its receipt. See where it went →
This is how far we have come, and it is all published. Now comes rebuilding.
How we're doing · what we've achieved together
The aid coming in drops each day; the need does not.
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What happened
On 10 August 2026, at 7:34 in the morning, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake centred on San José del Palmar, Chocó, shook the west of the country. It was felt in 16 departments. It was Colombia's strongest in a decade and the government declared a national disaster.
Risaralda, Quindío and Caldas are among the hardest hit. In Pereira alone, 42 buildings have collapsed completely and 8 partly, with search and rescue still under way.
Chocó, Valle del Cauca, Risaralda, Quindío and Caldas report power cuts and damage to telecommunications. National electricity demand fell about 18% because of the areas left without service.
Landslides and fallen trees have closed or restricted roads in Caldas, Quindío, Tolima and Valle del Cauca. Reaching the smaller towns is today the hardest part of the relief effort.
Drinking water, food that keeps, toiletries and bedding. Families who lost their homes will need the basics every day, not just this week. Which is why help that lasts matters more than help on day one.
How to help
It doesn't matter how much: a donation, a grocery kit or a morning of your time. It all adds up, it all gets there, and we account for all of it.
Buy what's missing, close to where it's needed, with a receipt for every peso.
Where to take itFood, water, toiletries and health supplies. We tell you what helps and where to take it.
What to donate & whereVolunteer at the Cerritos del Mar center. Book your shift and see how many spots are left.
Book a shiftHave a vehicle or warehouse? Moving the aid is half the work.
Offer transportWhat to give
Only what can be stored, moved and handed out safely gets in. Anything else clogs the warehouse and takes space from what is actually needed.
Today, the most urgent
Everything must be sealed, unopened and within its use-by date.
Medicines from individuals cannot be handed out: their handling is regulated, and without a batch number or pharmaceutical backing there is no way to vouch for them.
Write to us first and we will tell you whether we can take it right now and where to bring it.
How it was done
How to help now
The Cerritos collection point is no longer taking donations. We are moving from the emergency stage to reconstruction, and that changes what is needed: it is no longer about filling a warehouse, it is about solving specific needs of specific families.
If you want to help, write to us and we will tell you what is needed today. That way nobody travels for nothing or brings something we already have too much of.
On Instagram we post what is needed each week and what has been delivered. It is the quickest way to find out where you can help.
Who we are
cuiDAMOS is a network of citizens and business owners from Colombia's Coffee Region. It was not put together after the earthquake: it was already connected, which is why we could start the next day. We now work with Corporación Pereira Cívica as a single operation.
One collection point, routes with a named person in charge, and a list of households that told us what they need. An emergency is not met with loose goodwill: it is met with lists, named people in charge and traceability.
Every delivery is recorded with its date, area and how many people live in the household. That is what gets published, and it updates on its own: no figures are typed in by hand here.
Plenty of people want to give and do not know what or where. Pass this link to your groups: it is all on one page.