#enchentes no rio grande do sul

[lidia-vasconcelos]

Em oração!

[ntgospel]

Após igreja no RS ser inundada, cristãos celebram Santa Ceia

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Após igreja no RS ser inundada, cristãos celebram Santa Ceia

Recentemente, a igreja Assembleia de Deus em Lajeado, Rio Grande do Sul, voltou a se reunir e celebrou a Santa Ceia após ter sido inundada por mais de 5 metros de água. A enchente, que ocorreu no dia 3 de maio, submergiu completamente o templo matriz de dois andares, causando destruição significativa.

A água do Rio Taquari invadiu o edifício, danificando cadeiras, equipamentos de ar condicionado e a iluminação. Mesmo diante de tamanha devastação, a congregação manteve a fé e a esperança, trabalhando arduamente para limpar e recuperar o espaço.

Após duas semanas de esforços intensos, a igreja estava pronta para retomar seus cultos. O pastor presidente, Daniel Fish, expressou sua gratidão e fé nas redes sociais, afirmando que o reencontro da comunidade de fé era um momento de celebração e renovação espiritual.

Desafios Enfrentados

A destruição dentro da igreja foi profunda, com a água alcançando o teto do edifício. As cadeiras ficaram encharcadas de água e barro, enquanto os sistemas de ar condicionado e iluminação foram queimados. No entanto, a congregação se manteve resiliente e unida.

O pastor Daniel Fish, apesar da frustração, destacou a importância de manter a esperança: “A água deu no teto, pegou até na iluminação e todos os ar-condicionados. Estamos muito tristes, não dá para dizer que não estamos frustrados. Mas não estamos desanimados, desesperados. Nós cremos em um Deus que levanta coisas novas em meio ao caos”.

A dedicação dos membros da igreja foi essencial para a rápida recuperação do espaço. Em apenas duas semanas, a congregação conseguiu limpar, reparar e preparar o templo para receber novamente os fiéis, demonstrando um forte espírito de comunidade e fé.

Ação Comunitária

Esta não foi a primeira vez que a igreja enfrentou enchentes. Em 2023, um ciclone causou alagamentos que atingiram 1,70 metros de altura, também danificando o templo matriz. Apesar dos desafios contínuos, a Assembleia de Deus em Lajeado tem se destacado pelo apoio à comunidade.

Além de reconstruir seu espaço de culto, a igreja está ativamente envolvida em ajudar os moradores afetados pela enchente. A congregação distribui cestas básicas, visita abrigos e compartilha a mensagem de esperança do Evangelho com os necessitados.

Segundo o guiame, a tragédia no Rio Grande do Sul deixou um rastro de destruição, com 157 mortos, 806 feridos e 88 desaparecidos, segundo o último boletim da Defesa Civil. Mais de 600 mil gaúchos estão desabrigados, enfrentando a falta de água, energia elétrica e sinal de internet. Em meio a esse cenário, a atuação da Assembleia de Deus em Lajeado representa um farol de esperança e solidariedade.

[zinemusical]

Músicos arrecadam R$ 2 milhões em prol das vítimas das enchentes no Rio Grande do Sul

[narryffdreaming]

HI! HELLO!

RIO GRANDE DO SUL / BRAZIL NEEDS YOUR HELP, PLEASE 🇧🇷

Guys, I know my blog isn't big at all for me to be doing this, but after living some of the most devastating and scary days of my life I feel the need to at least try.

I hope I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure most of you don't know that the state of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) is going through the worst climate catastrophe in its history.

To give you some context, it started raining on Saturday (April 27th), and by Monday (April 29th) cities were already underwater. As days went by, and as rain didn't give us a single moment to catch a break, not only floods were a problem, but also multiple, huge landslides. By Wednesday (May 1st), it was like everything was falling apart around us. Everywhere.

Blackouts. No communication. No water supply. Brigdes collapsing. Roads washed out. Houses floating away. Animals drowning. People dying. Missing. Begging for help...

I mean, it's been a really long and painful week. There are so many videos and pictures that I could show you, and I still wouldn't be able to show and explain what we're going through.

Now, a week later (May 6th), we're still living this nightmare. Water follows the course of the river and it's like floods just move from one place to the other. On top of that, more rain is expected during the week.

So far*, out of 496 cities in the state, 341 cities have been somehow affected by all this. At least 78 people died, over 100 were reported missing, and at least 175 were injured. Also, over 134,000 people were forced to leave their homes behind, and most of them won't be able to return because houses aren't even there anymore.

So whilst we're doing our best here to help our people, volunteering ourselves and just doing whatever we can to try and start all over (cleaning up the streets and houses, making food, donating clothes and furniture, etc) we know there's only so much we can do without financial help. Which is why I'm writing this.

If you can, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE 🙏🏻 consider donating and helping us. Especially if you live outside the country — basically bc your money will be worth even more here, as you can see:

€1 = R$ 5,49 || €5 = R$27,46

US$1 = R$5,10 || US$5 = R$25,51

£1 = R$6,40 || £5 = R$32,00

And if you can't donate, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE 🙏🏻 at least just share and spread the word. You'll be already doing a lot for us!

We already went through something like this seven months ago (September/23) and we really, really need more international help/awareness now.

Official links for donations are listed here:

IF YOU'RE FROM BRAZIL: Link

IF YOU'RE FROM A DIFFERENT COUNTRY: Link

Also, if you want to know more about what's happening, you can start here: governo_rs || abcnews || G1 noticias

JUST PLEASE DON'T IGNORE THIS

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*I wrote this post on May 6th, at 2am. Now it's May 6th, 11:30am (not even 10 hours later), and numbers have already changed: 345 cities have been somehow affected (+4), 83 people died (+5), 111 were reported missing (+11), 276 were injured (+101), over 141,000 were forced to leave their homes behind (+7k).

[born-in-hell]

Hi!

As some of you might know, southern Brazil, specifically the state of Rio Grande do Sul, has been struck by heavy rains and a consequential flood. The rains started on monday (29/abr) and only stopped today (5/mai), in Porto Alegre ─ the state capital, and the city i live in ─ and in the other cities nearby.

The lake that borders PoA (named Guaíba) has reached more than 5m up its normal level. This is higher than on the historic 1941 flood. The city's center ─ a big residential and commercial hub, beyond being the host of most of our public services (such as the city hall and the state government) ─ is completely taken by the water. Many other neighbourhoods were also affected.

Smaller cities that also border Guaíba were even more heavily affected, such as Eldorado do Sul, whose territory was almost 100% flooded.

The state is, for a lack of a better word, abandoned by the people that were supposed to aid.

Our governor, Eduardo Leite, is more worried about his plitical campaign ─ making dramatic videos, changing his facebook pfp to one of him with a public defense vest, making streams with no useful information ─ than with the people's lives. This year, he destinated only R$50.000 (~ USD250.000) for the Civil Defense. For the entire year. He is now, delegating the responsibility of recuperating our state to the Federal Government, stating that "the rbuilding of the RS will demand a Marshall Project".

Porto Alegre's mayor, Sebastião Mello, has vanished. He sold our city out to big enterprises ─ Melnick, Zaffari and Panvel, mainly ─, and hasn't destined any public resources to maintaining the Mauá wall (a wall built after the 1941 flood with a system made to protect the city from other floods), which caused many points to fail and the water to invade the city.

This is the danger we all face with a neoliberal system.

Neoliberalism is an individualist ideology. All these people and companies I named did close to nothing to help us. Or even made it worse. The Civil Defense, for example, published a map of all the areas that would be affected, but had to take it back, since it didn't consider the topography.

Its the people for the people.

This situation is being aided by people using their own resources. Donations of various natures and volunteer work. It is very beautiful, in a way. It shows that colaboration and union can do great things. It shows, at least to me, that the world can reach, one day, a self sustaining way of living, contrary to the ultra-individualistic capitalism some preach. Humans can, and are, good.

But it also lays out how much the people that govern us failed us.

Human lives were lost because of their negligency.

This flood isn't normal. It is a product of the huge levels of degradation multi-billionaire companies are causing the world, supported by higher class and their representatives. Eduardo Leite changed almost 500 points of our state's Environmental Code, for the worst, when he was first elected in 2019. His actions, and the actions of all other neoliberal politicians, such as our ex-president Bolsonaro, are what created this situation. They are responsible for everything that is going on here.

This flood isnt the only environmental crisis this state has faced in the last 6 months. This isn't the last one that will happen.

This text is, beyond a personal vent, a warning. We need to keep fighting against a system that is actively trying to kill us. Please, do not support ideals and people ─ especially if said people will rule you ─ that go against the environment, that preach that the capital, the money, the posesions, are more important than lives. Of the people, of the animals, of the environment. Fight for a better world, i know there can be one.

Always be aware of the climate in your areas. Things like this won't happen only here. Please be safe.

Sorry for the long post.

If you're interested in donating, @decaf-lesbian made this post with some links for international and national donations.

-> If you're from Brasil, check this link, that has a copilation of maps of risk areas, shelters, places to donate to, etc, made by a UFRGS student.

[beadickel]

Pessoal, os povos indígenas e quilombolas do RS também precisam de ajuda! Alguns links úteis com informações como chave pix e endereços de onde doar:

Centro de Referência Indígena do RS: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6hfmHJOQjV/

Retomada Xokleng Konglui: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6hAaDCOLd7/

Ocupação Vila resistência: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6e7YK1uEqR/

Retomada Guarani Nhe'engatu: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6eAJjCuPbN/

Movimento Negro Unificado Santa Maria: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6ch4D2sHLI/

[fireheartwraith]

Hello everyone. Climate change and lack of infrastructure has cause severe floods in the south of brazil and thousands of people are displaced or missing. If you can help, please do, especially those who use dollar or euro. You don't know far your money can take us

This tweet has a video showing how absurdly fast the water rose. Image if this was your home, completely taken by water in under three minutes. Imagine if you had children, elderly, disabled people living here. What would you do in this situation? What can you even do?

Most of the state is now underwater, and the parts that aren't don’t have power or water. Getting prescription meds and other necessities like hygiene kits and food is difficult because capitalism sucks. The military police are protecting supermarkets because the people are hungry and taking the food. Mind you, the food will spoil anyway. But god forbid people don't go hungry.

And in the midst of this chaos, public transport still isn't free. People are charging to rescue folks. So people can only be rescued by helicopter because of the currents. There are people debating whether or not they should leave pets to die.

And the government has done basically nothing. It is the government's fault, everyone knows this. The money that was supposed to go to preventing something like this simply doesn't exist. The people organizing rescues are distributing resources are the people themselves. Influencers have been doing more to the cause than the government at this point.

Some people were bringing up Madonna because the flood hit the night of her show, and they were saying the money she received should have gone to the affected people. And so she donated 10 MILLION reais. It is utter madness. There are bodies floating in the water people have to wade through.

If you can do something to help, please do

Here's a link to donate to an ngo that is feeding the displaced people

Paypal: Fathiele14@gmail.com

Edit: Floods are also displacing people in the northeast, literally on the other side of the country. The situation is dire. Remember, you are closer to being a climate refugee than being a billionaire. If I find where you make international donations to help Maranhão I'll share it here

[andanteostinato]

05/05/24: Inundação em Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul - Brasil (Fotos: Gustavo Garbino)

05/05/24: Flooding in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil (Photos: Gustavo Garbino)

[learningtosmelltheroses]

It's been 2 days away from home and the water keeps rising... my house is completely under water I'm trying not to think too much about it... trying to focus that the important thing is that we're safe

There's this organization raising money to help all the victims idk if foreigners can access but if you can help please do

[cyberwavebabe]

HUNDREDS OF BRAZILIAN CITIES ARE UNDER WATER

Hello, my non brazilian followers! I don't know if you already know the situation in Brazil right now, but heavy rains caused widespread flooding in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Now, hundreds of towns under water. People lost their houses, animals, everything, a lot of people died and a lot are still not found.

[Images: https://www.google.com/amp/s/g1.globo.com/google/amp/rs/rio-grande-do-sul/noticia/2024/05/05/chuvas-no-rio-grande-do-sul-veja-fotos.ghtml ]

A video explaining the situation (in Portuguese with subtitles):

A lot of people here are helping how they can. Donations here are almost all done by Pix (a Brazilian form of payment that is fast and direct). I know pix does not exist in other countries, so I was searching for ways to help if you're not in Brazil so I could share here, since the majority of my followers are not Brazilians.

LINKS TO HELP:

1. Cozinha Solidária MTST:

2. Central Única das Favelas (CUFA):

donations via paypal: doacoes@cufa.org.br

3. MST:

Any donation can help a lot! Please share this post so more people can help!

Thank you!

[duoatomica]

‼️‼️STOP SCROLLING AND READ THIS PLEASE‼️‼️

In brazil, there's been having a lot of floods in the southern region of the country, more specifically in the state of Rio Grande do Sul

Every day people are dying , cities are submerged, a single city was erased from the map for being totally underwater.

"Sadly the city of Eldorado RS, doesn't exist anymore - The city was totally covered by water"

Everyday, people have to witness everything they've built get lost admist the water, people have to live with floating bodies of adults, children, toddlers, newborns, animals, dogs, cats, elders, every possible life in these cities are being taken away by the floods.

People spend day and night on rooftops, waiting for boats to save them, but not everyone comes out alive.

Hear this audio:

The man says: "Hey Gabriela, deal with what I'll tell you now, there was three children at the boat with me, one of them asked me to pick up a doll that was floating, and I went to grab the doll. It wasn't a doll, it was a baby, a dead baby."

It's the reality of what's happening in Brazil right now when you're reading this.

Sadly, I can't share more than one video here on Tumblr, but theres an audio of a woman thanking her parents for everything, saying she loved them and asking them to take care of her dog Maicon, in the audio, she said she didn't feel her legs, that she felt like she was hallucinating, that the water was almost at her chin, that she was about to die, that her other dog died. After the woman spoke, the sound of the roof breaking and falling was heard in the background, sounds of water splashing, and after the audio was sent, she died, submerged in the ruins of her own underwater house.

We can't do much, but if whoever is seeing this post could donate for help, it would be a step closer to salvation of more and more people.

Here's the link if you want to donate for Rio Grande do Sul: Vakinhahttps://www.vakinha.com.br › a-ma...A Maior Campanha Solidária do RS

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.vakinha.com.br/vaquinha/a-maior-campanha-solidaria-do-rs%3F&sa=U&sqi=2&ved=2ahUKEwjAgrybp_yFAxUiHbkGHRWMDbIQFnoECDAQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2z2py3rN07FmWV4NePVuOS

Thanks for reading this post, even if only a few people.

[ogamipukobye]

[ntgospel]

Igreja evangeliza e distribui bíblias para vítimas de enchentes no RS

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Igreja evangeliza e distribui bíblias para vítimas de enchentes no RS

A devastação causada pelas enchentes no Rio Grande do Sul no início de maio revisitou a necessidade de apoio não só material, mas também espiritual para os desabrigados. Anderson Pereira, pastor da Igreja Palavra da Vida em Lajeado, percebeu isso enquanto ajudava as famílias a limparem suas casas após a enchente. Durante a limpeza de uma residência, encontraram uma Bíblia, o que revelou a perda significativa para muitos: “Ela comentou que tinha uma necessidade muito grande, ela tinha quatro bíblias de estudo e perdeu todas na enchente”, relatou Anderson.

Nos abrigos de Lajeado que acolhem cerca de 500 famílias, a vulnerabilidade espiritual era evidente. Com a ajuda de doações, Anderson encomendou Bíblias da Sociedade Bíblica do Brasil e distribuiu 500 Novos Testamentos, além de oferecer orações e esperança em Jesus. Ele vê a tragédia como uma oportunidade para a pregação do Evangelho, enfatizando a importância de oferecer não apenas ajuda material, mas também espiritual: “Talvez tenhamos a oportunidade de um grande avivamento. E de mostrar que, mesmo em toda essa situação, Deus não perdeu o controle”.

A Igreja Palavra da Vida tem estado na linha de frente desde o início das cheias, abrindo suas portas para os desabrigados lavarem roupas e tomarem banho, além de servir como ponto de coleta para alimentos, itens de higiene e roupas. Anderson descreveu a gravidade da situação em Lajeado, uma das regiões mais atingidas, com mais de 2 mil casas destruídas e bairros inteiros devastados.

Segundo o guiame, depois da água baixar, os membros da igreja também se dedicaram à limpeza das casas inundadas, retirando lodo e destroços trazidos pela correnteza do rio. A atuação da igreja tem sido fundamental para atender às necessidades imediatas das vítimas e oferecer conforto espiritual em meio à calamidade.

[deusa-astaroth666]

I would like to thank everyone for the messages of support and asks🥺❤️, I've already started the drawings and they will be ready by tomorrow, I'm doing them with great care and it really helped me calm down a lot and I even managed to eat a little. I also have three news, one good and two bad.

The good news is that one of my friends got in touch and is well and safe so far, the water has not reached her house.

Now for the bad, my friend and her family are without drinking water to bathe and the water in the fridge to drink is also running out, I hope they deliver supplies to her soon. The other bad news is that my other friend hasn't gotten in touch yet and to make matters worse, another water dam burst, in other words... the catastrophe has just gotten worse and the chances of the current reaching her house have increased, which only increases my concern. I really hope she is safe, the city of Porto Alegre is devastated by the waters, no one leaves or enters except the volunteers with helicopters and boats, an entire city is under water, there are 78 people dead so far and more than 105 are missing, every hour this number grows, 20 thousand have been rescued and 115 thousand are homeless.

The last time I saw something like this was in the tragedy of Brumadinho in Minas Gerais, please do something about it to make it known to the outside media, Brazil needs help, the State of Rio Grande Do Sul is sinking and the tendency is to get worse, Anything to help our country is welcome, donations, repercussions and prayers, here below there will be some videos of the current situation in the State, they are strong images so watch them if you are psychologically prepared😥

I will translate for you

Flood destroys city of Roca Sales in Rio Grande do Sul

Unfortunately I can only put a single video here, but on Tik Tok and YouTube there are several of them, if you are interested in donating, the government is creating pix keys and the victims themselves too, I will send some Tik Tok accounts that are fighting to help animals and people who were victims of this tragedy. Every 1 Real (Brazilian currency) is worth 0.20 of the North American dollar.

Government releases Pix key for donations

The number for donations is: 92.958.800/0001-38. When making the transfer, confirm that the destination bank is "Banrisul (Banco do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul)".

https://www.tiktok.com/@saramicaela14?_t=8m74sIjUsbO&_r=1

This child asks for help with beds and toys, the wreckage you can see behind is what's left of his house.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMMtDh8cf/

Here you can see animal rescue

If you want to make other donations for specific things like animal feed and food, just Google the banks that are receiving them, I think it will be safer that way.

I hope that everyone is well and that none of you have to go through something like this, I will continue to update you about it, as it is the only way I could help the media see us, since as I mentioned before the event has passed. unnoticed since it occurred on the same day as Queen Madonna's concert.

Thank you for reading this far, have a good night❤️❤️

[catcore13]

Toda vida importa ❤️

[beadickel]

Eu tô muito feliz vendo tantas pessoas de fora compartilhando vaquinhas e falando sobre a situação do sul, isso significa muito pra gente

Continuem falando sobre o Rio Grande do Sul!!!

💚❤💛