Another Way To Help Puerto Rico

September 28, 2017• byMichael Strangeways

Here’s another way to help LGBTQ people in Puerto Rico that has been devastated by multiple hurricanes this month.

Puerto Rico needs your support today!

Many of our member centers and friends are asking how they can support the people of Puerto Rico who have suffered horrific devastation by hurricane Maria last week.

We have been in contact with our member center there, Centro Comunitario LGBTT de Puerto Rico, regarding what assistance is needed and how it can best be provided.

CenterLink has set up a fundraising page for those wishing to make donations. Funds collected from this campaign will assist our member center, Centro Comunitario LGBTT de Puerto Rico, to provide relief efforts to the community that they serve. Along with helping to purchase batteries, flashlights, a generator for the Center, non-perishable food, and other hard-to-come-by essentials for community members, funds will also go to assist those least likely to receive assistance from post-storm recovery efforts – the LGBTQ community.

If people wish to send needed items directly (specifically batteries, flashlights, non-perishable food items like powdered milk) they can send SMALL packages to:

Centro Comunitario LGBTT de Puerto Rico

Attn: Cecilia La Luz

P.O. Box 9501

San Juan, PR 00908

The latest updates this morning indicate that the main post office in San Juan is now open for PO box deliveries.

Questions can be directed to Denise Spivak, Senior Director or Programs & Outreach for CenterLink at denise@lgbtcenters.org.

Your generous support is greatly appreciated!

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https://www.lgbtcenters.org/LgbtCenters/Center/6769

Centro Comunitario LGBTT de Puerto Rico – CenterLink LGBT Member Center in San Juan Puerto Rico

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Centro Comunitario LGBTT de Puerto Rico

Centro Comunitario LGBTT de Puerto Rico – Home | Facebook

Cecilia La Luz (@cecilialaluz) | Twitter

Donate to the following frontline community based organizations and/or campaigns:

Taller Salud (supporting the community of Loiza)
Hurricane Maria Community Recovery Fund
Feminist Solidarity Post-Hurricane Relief Fund, Colectiva Feminista en Construcción (bringing emergency supplies and support to women and LGBTQI communities)
ESCAPE Centro de Fortalecimiento Familiar/Early Head Start Center (employees are visiting families with children in Gurabo to find out their current needs and bring them emergency supplies)
Centro Comunitario LGBT de Puerto Rico (all funds will support LGBTQI communities in San Juan)
Emergency Relief for Puerto Rico (providing support to shelters and rural communities in the south, west and central regions)
Carmelo Anthony Puerto Rico Relief Fund
Puerto Rico Hurricane Relief Fundraiser (supporting communities in Pinones and Loiza)
Salud y Acupuntura para el Pueblo

About the Author: Michael Strangeways

As the Editorial Director/Co-Owner, Michael Strangeways writes, edits and does about a million other jobs for Seattle Gay Scene, Puget Sound's most visited LGBTQ news, arts and entertainment website now celebrating its 14th year as a media outlet. A semi-proud Midwesterner by birth, he's lived in Seattle since 2000. He's also a film producer who would like you to check out the Jinkx Monsoon documentary, "Drag Becomes Him" now available on Amazon.com. In his spare time, he gets slightly obsessive about his love for old movies, challenging theater, "otters", vodka, chocolate, "I,Claudius", Lizzie Borden, real books made out of paper, disaster films, show tunes, Weimar era Germany, flea markets, pop surrealistic art, the sex lives of Hollywood actors both living and dead, kitties, chicken fried steak, haute couture and David Bowie. But, not necessarily in that order.