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00:29Pereira, I feel like crying. The day of the earthquake was a very difficult day for everyone, truly.
00:36I feel a collective pain because it's very sad to see how everything fell apart, isn't it?
00:46That was my brother's room. And this whole wall collapsed.
00:51And nothing was left.
00:53I started shouting when I heard, we're here, we're under a roof, we're under a roof.
00:57I went out, I slept in the room, I took two steps out and quietly went back to take out the rembuscados because it was
01:05capable of giving way.
01:07And to lower the scale even further, here we stop to return to being.
01:12Some of the places we used to frequent no longer exist; we're practically left without a supermarket, without a bakery because...
01:25He fell.
01:30Almost a month has passed since the earthquake of August 10th.
01:38The neighbors and the community are still in shock, right?
01:43It has been a shock not only physically because our homes collapsed, but also an emotional shock.
01:52People trapped, dead.
01:56It has been very difficult because, even though all this has happened, we have to continue with our lives.
02:04We have to keep working, we have to keep living and trying to be very resilient in the face of the situation.
02:14The first few days were filled with a lot of pain, a lot of emotion; we stayed outside, kind of guarding things.
02:23of the neighbors.
02:24We also set up a community kitchen and we were making food until it reached a foundation and then it started doing that.
02:34like food here in the neighborhood.
02:36This neighborhood especially suffered too much, and let's say only 20% of the houses are in good condition because the rest
02:43If it didn't fall, it's broken.
02:46These were houses built by our parents, so they are very important to us; they are our legacy.
02:52It's not just anything, is it? It's not just any building.
02:57It is a building of our life, our history, our experiences.
03:05We know that before the 1999 earthquake there was a Pereira that perhaps some of us didn't get to know.
03:11And now we're going to encounter a different Pereira that we'll have to tell the new ones about.
03:16generations, right?
03:18We got together about 15 of us, no, it could have been a month, maybe two months before this event.
03:27We were already thinking about things together.
03:32And this situation happens on August 10th.
03:37We, as cultural managers, I would call them that, look for ways to, well,
03:42How can we provide a moment of distraction for boys, girls, and parents?
03:49So what we did was take advantage of the fact that we were already together, that we had already been thinking about a traveling cinema.
03:56that it started kind of rolling around to all the places that had shelters, camps, on soccer fields outside
04:06of the neighborhoods.
04:07And we began to make that journey, reaching the difficult places where the institution or administration generally doesn't go.
04:18arrives.
04:26Well, my name is Sergio Castañeda.
04:29Some tourism and adventure here in Santa Rosa de Cabal.
04:33Canyoning, waterfall descent with rope.
04:34And so at this moment we are here supporting the people who live in high-rise buildings
04:43to lower the heavy items, since the advisor has not been working.
04:49All the equipment can withstand two and a half tons.
04:51The tape, carabiners, figure eight, ropes, and pulley are all included.
04:58It's sporty, but it's very durable.
05:01This is the issue we have to be tenacious about.
05:03They are like this and it touches us all with doubts.
05:06We see everyone, elderly people, alone in buildings with no one to help them.
05:14Or family very far away.
05:17And they're all confused, not knowing what to do, so why aren't they being given any help?
05:24Nobody here has told us if this is going to collapse, or if the engineers are coming.
05:30People have come, but none of them have issued any certification here.
05:34The truth is, it hurts because they kicked us all out.
05:38And that's what people are like.
05:40Some live attached to the family.
05:43We are all going through a difficult time.
05:46Others don't even have a place to live.
05:48I live in the tent, there in the social hall.
05:53Help with hygiene kits, markets, things like that, yes.
05:59But the financial assistance that people really need to rebuild their homes,
06:05That financial aid has not arrived.
06:08But one understands that too many homes are affected.
06:13This is unmanageable.
06:15For any ruler, this is out of their control, right?
06:17They have come, then, as if from the engineers of the mayor's office,
06:23also to count the inhabitants of the neighborhood,
06:28but they don't propose them as solutions.
06:32After the earthquake, well, nothing, the truth is that after the earthquake,
06:35My friends and I dedicate ourselves to helping people, almost always very elderly people.
06:39to be able to move from one house to another around here, in the neighborhood, because their roof collapsed,
06:44Then they had to take everything out.
06:46I believe that the aid cannot stop.
06:49Even now, a month after the earthquake, he still can't stop.
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