Editorial

For Fondo Alquimia, confronting the emergency of the earthquake in Chile has meant immediate action in the face of disaster. On March 1st, we launched the campaign “Earthquake in Chile: Women Donating to Women”, without losing our vision of organizing based on feminist principles.

The way we have mobilized is by including the organizations that know the most urgent needs of their communities, maintaining respect for local leadership and promoting a close relationship that facilitates coordination between activists. Our main goal has been to make the organized response of women visible.

We have seen how this campaign has had a chemistry, an alchemy. Small gestures have a large impact: individual donations delivered by people conscious of the value of activism have allowed for positive action by activist organizations in their surrounding areas.

Our campaign continues. Our goal is to raise 15 million pesos (about $28,400). In order to accomplish this goal, we have been working on a wide range of projects. We have received individual donations, we have organized events in the US coordinated by a donor of our network, “Women Supporting Women,” and we have relied on the essential support through the mobilization of the Fundación Diáspora Solidaria (Diasporic Solidarity Fund) with their campaign “Women Reconstruct Life”. We invite our readers to participate and be part of the alchemy.