5 Puerto Rican Community-Led Relief Efforts to Support

Centro de Apoyo Mutual

The Mutual Aid Center is a new collaborative space that popped up post-Maria to provide basic health and food needs and more. Donate via PayPal to cdpecpr@gmail.com.

Centro para el Desarrollo Politico, Educativo y Cultural (CDPEC)

CDPEC was founded in 2011 and its flagship program of mobile food stations began in 2013. These comedores sociales (social cafeterias) work as solidarity efforts. Donate here .

National Boricua Human Rights Network

In their own words, their priorities include the decontamination, development, and return of the island of Vieques to its people; (2) the release of the remaining Puerto Rican political prisoners; and (3) an end to the continuing political repression and criminalization of progressive sectors of the Puerto Rican community. Donate here . They are also linking on their website to this Hurricane Relief Fund .

Casa Pueblo Puerto Rico

You can look at Casa Pueblos Twitter feed to see a summary of the work theyve been doing post-Maria including running Radio Casa Pueblo to help inform people and distributing hundreds of solar lamps. Donate here .

Taller Salud

Taller Salud does workshops on sexual health and violence. Theyve started their own hurriance fund: Donate here . They also link to these two hurricane relief funds.