Solidarity fundraising
La Rumba Colombiana
Friday 25 September, 18:00 to 00:30
LATROUPE Jacobs Inn, Dublin
Colombians living in Ireland, raising funds for families who lost their homes, crops and water supply to earthquakes and wildfires in Nariño.
Combined total from the Raffall raffle and GoFundMe donations. Event admission income is separate and is not included.
The draw took place on Friday 25 September at 21:00 Dublin time. Thank you to everyone who took part.
Winners
Two further donated prizes, the Cultural Hospitality Package in Pasto and the Real Events Annual Pass, were not part of this draw and remain available for a future one.
A bilingual quiz, open from 20:30 until midnight Dublin time on Friday 25 September. Free for anyone who purchased a Raffall ticket.
Prize: two courtesy passes for two people to the Día de los Muertos event at The Button Factory, Dublin, on 1 November.
Sign up through the form with your full name, an email address and a Kahoot nickname. The access link is sent to you on sign-up.
Prefer to give without entering the raffle? Donations go to the same relief effort and are handled separately from ticket sales.
La Rumba Colombiana is a separate ticketed party at LATROUPE Jacobs Inn, Dublin, on Friday 25 September from 18:00 to 00:30.
Early bird €10 · General admission €13 · On the door €15
Buying a Raffall ticket does not provide event admission. Buying an event ticket does not create a Raffall entry. The event ticket price is not part of the fundraising and does not go to the relief effort.
Footage from the affected hamlets, and what the community in Ireland is doing about it.
Earthquakes and forest fires struck remote hamlets in the municipality of Los Andes, around the town of Sotomayor, in the department of Nariño. The fires spread from several causes, including an electrical short circuit and fallen high-voltage power lines. An official census records the damage family by family, across 90 affected families.
Two in three of those families lost the irrigation hose that carries water to their crops and homes. For more than a third, the hose is the only thing they lost, and the only thing standing between them and a working farm. One household lost the hose feeding the local aqueduct and has no drinking water.
What the census records
Aid is bought and delivered against the verified damage assessment. The priority list agreed with the community on the ground:
United for Colombia is an independent group of Colombian residents in Ireland. We are not a foundation or a company. We came together after the disaster to raise funds and get aid to families the emergency response has not reached.
Aid is delivered on the ground through the FUNDASSUE Foundation (NIT 900983706-3), a Colombian non-profit working in social development and support for vulnerable communities. FUNDASSUE is our logistics channel in Colombia, and invoices for purchased aid are issued in its name.
No organiser takes any payment from this campaign. Every euro raised goes to relief, and we publish transfer certificates, invoices, photographs and a final report.
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United for Colombia is an independent community initiative organised by Colombians living in Ireland. Aid is delivered on the ground through the FUNDASSUE Foundation (NIT 900983706-3).
United for Colombia · Solidarity for Nariño · Dublin, 2026