Basic Info

Name:: L'Aquila Renaissance - Helping L'Aquila and Abruzzo
Category:: Organizations - Non-Profit Organizations
Description:: For all English speakers, both expats in Italy and people in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and elsewhere contribute to not only to helping people survive the aftermath of the Earthquake and how they can help rebuild later to restore this wonderful area of Italy
Privacy Type:: Open: All content is public.

Contact Info

Email:
Office:: currently unuseable
Location:: Viale Giovanni XXIII, L'Aquila
L'Aquila, Italy

Recent News

News:: We started this because we love L'Aquila and Abruzzo and so many of our relatives, friends and colleagues had asked us after the Earthquake how they can help form the UK, Ireland, USA, Canada and elsewhere.

The group has dual goals - helping and facilitaiting fundraising for the victims and all aspects of reconstruction, and finding a way to keep attention up internationally in the long term. Optimistic accounts give us 10 years before we can relive one of Italy's less known but largest and most beautiful city centres.

Please help us find and communicate who is collecting funds and doing other work on behalf of the earthquake victims and rebuilding L'Aquila, one of Italy's most beautiful cities, and the wonderful towns that surround it.
Sadly, since the L'Aquila earthquake struck in the early hours of Monday the death toll has now risen to 295. The number of homeless people in tent cities is around 17,000 while tens of thousands of others are guests in the hotels on the coast or are staying with family & friends to stay with stands at 17,000. If you are looking to help the people of L'Aquila and the little hill villages where a lot of the elderly live these are the quickest ways to help those most affected by L'Aquila's earthquake.

Online Donations

USA / North America
- NIAF - The National Italian American Foundation have created a Abruzzo Relief Fund & their online donation form is in English. Again here you can make a fast & easy online donation to assist in helping L'Aquila now and rebuild their lives, it's tax free for those in the US.
https://www.niaf.org/relief/Relief_info.asp
- Italian Academy Foundation (IAF) has established a L'Aquila relief fund. Additionally, the IAF headquarters in L'Aquila (Bisegna) is open to the victims of the April 6, 2009, earthquake who are seeking shelter. View the IAF website at italianacademyfoundation.org.
- The Sons of Italy Foundation (SIF) has created an Emergency Relief Fund. View the Order Sons of Italy in America website at www.osia.org.
UNICO Announces Initiation of Fund to Aid Abruzzo Italy Earthquake Relief. website at www.unico.org-
The American Red Cross https://american.redcross.org/site/Donation2?idb=514161456&df_id=1094&1094.donation=form1&s_subsrc=RCO_link
https://www.niaf.org/relief/Relief_info.asp

Just Canada:
You can make donations in Canada at any TD Bank, CIBC, or Scotiabank

The Slow Food Movement - The Slow Food Movement have set up a dedicated appeal to ensure that no one goes hungry in the surrounding mountain areas of L'Aquila. Many of those affected in the little hill villages are 'farmers', not of great arable plains but what would be termed outside Abruzzo as subsistence farmers. They are going to desperately need our help in order to not go hungry over the coming months. Their form is in Italian so for non Italian speakers we suggest you donate using Global Giving, the form is in English but it goes directly to the Slow Food Movement.

Global Giving for Abruzzo - http://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/2700/proj2695a.html
Offering Accommodation

There are approximately 17,000 homeless & although its Spring, we are talking high altitude & mountains - its COLD at night - if you have a second home nearby to L'Aquila, anywhere in which all these people can sleep, please contact the Civil Defence number above or the UDU (it's the university network) -organizzaizone@udu.it. or telephone +0039 06.43411763.

After living in Abruzzo for the last 8 years I would say that my Abruzzi neighbours and friends are some of the most compassionate & generous people I know, if you can and I know it's tough for everyone at the moment please give generously to assist them in rebuilding their lives.

Joshua

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