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| Wednesday, 03 March 2010 13:45 |
 Atacama para Tomé - A tsunami of solidarityWaking up on Saturday morning 27/2/2010 with the terrible news of the earthquake in Chile was a very bad surprise for all of us. As well for Bert, who was about to take off for his Atacama crossing in Chile as for his Chilean friends from his hometown Leuven this was very traumatic news…
So we decided to join our strength and creativity to do something special for Chile. Zeepreventorium did feel the same and so we decided to work together to get as fast as possible a project started to help the victims of the earthquake in Chile. We did choose for a project in the small coast city of Tomé in the south of Chile. The region where the earthquake and the tsunami hit very powerful and destroyed almost everything. Tomé is a commune and port city with 52.000 inhabitants, in the Biobío Region of Chile, not far from Concepcion. The local economy is based mainly on textile manufacturing and fishing industry. Follow this link for pictures of Tomé before and after the earthquake: http://ayudaparatome.zobyhost.com/photosf.html Our contact person over there in Tomé is Gloria Vasquez a Chilean Belgian doctor who was living about twenty years in Leuven before returning back to her country of origin to work there in the hospital of Tomé as a medical doctor. Wednesday 3 march 2010 Bert Poffé, together with the ZEEPREVENTORIUM and our Chilean friends (Jorge, Pato, Nelson & Mimi) of Leuven, decided to, from today on, walk-race and raise funds for the victims of the earthquake in Chile!
If you want to collaborate at our project “Atacama for Tomé “ or you have another aid project for Chile you can just join us. Together we can do more !!! We will soon organize benefits in Leuven and Brussels with Chilean artist and other activities… Your donation to “Atacama para Tomé” is Bert's motivation!
Let’s create a tsunami of solidarity : 735-0164669-48
Contacts in Leuven: Mimi Deploige -
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Jorge Lübbert -
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Pato Valenzuela -
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Contact in Bruxelles: Rocio jeldrez -
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