Valle del Cauca · Risaralda · Chocó

Eleven tons of food and medicine for families around Pereira.

On September 11, 2026 we delivered 11 metric tons of food and emergency medication to communities in Risaralda living with the damage from the earthquake, including 750 family relief packages. One package costs $50 and weighs ten kilos.

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Dozens of clear family food packages bagged and stacked on a table, containing cooking oil, rice, pasta, beans and panela. — Family packages bagged and stacked before a distribution — cooking oil, rice, pasta, beans, panela.

What is in a package, and what it costs

750family packages delivered in Pereira
11 tonsof food and medication, September 11, 2026
10 kgin each package
$50the cost of one package

Each package holds cooking oil, rice, pasta, beans and panela — staples that keep, that a family can cook with whatever they still have, and that do not require refrigeration in places where the power is not reliable. The 11 tons counts the packages together with the emergency medication that travelled with them.

September 11, 2026 · Pereira, Risaralda

Distribution day in Pereira

Working with Misión Paz Pereira and the Pereira municipal government, our team handed out 750 family relief packages to earthquake-affected households, with emergency medication alongside them — 11 metric tons in all.

Families gathering in a Pereira street as the relief truck arrives.
Food and medication counted and stacked before distribution.

August 11, 2026 · Chiminangos, Cali

First responders in Cali

The day after the earthquake, we mobilised all of our teams in Cali as first responders. In Chiminangos, one of the barrios hit hardest, we built a feeding center so families who had lost their homes could eat, and our teams helped pull people out from under the rubble.

Where we have already been

In late August 2026 we worked in Quibdó, Chocó, alongside Iglesia Centro de Fe y Esperanza, and together reached 120 families. That number is 120 because that is how many households received a package, counted by the local church that handed them out.

Chocó is reached by road with difficulty and parts of the region are reached by river or not at all. Working through a congregation that is already there is not a shortcut — it is the only way the aid arrives at the right doors rather than the nearest ones.

A dugout canoe pulled up on a gravel bank beside a jungle river, with stilt-house posts and a wooden ladder. — **Guapi, Pacific coast.** Some of the places we go are reached by river and nothing else.

How a distribution works

A local church or community leader tells us what is needed. We do not decide from Medellín what a village in Risaralda is short of.
Packages are assembled and counted. Same contents, same weight, so nobody receives visibly less than their neighbour.
They travel by truck, and where the road ends, by boat. Freight is a real cost and we account for it separately from the food.
The local partner distributes and records who received. They know the households; we do not.
We report the count back. That is where numbers like “120 families” come from.

$50 sends one family ten kilos of food

$250 sends five. $1,000 sends twenty. Tell us your gift is for the Colombia response and it will be used only for that.

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