Colombia & Venezuela Earthquakes: How To Help Our Fellow Frisbee Communities
Published: August 15, 2026
Hi, I'm Daniel Prada, and I help organize frisbee around here.
On August 10th, a 7.4 earthquake ravaged the entire western portion of Colombia. Here's a map to give you a sense of where it hit, and the radius in 50 and 100 mile increments. For 90-120 eternal seconds, the floors of buildings felt like being on a boat rocking at sea, pushing thousands of lives into homelessness and disarray.
While my family in Calí thankfully experienced minor damage, the stories of loss and destruction continue to pour in. My aunt lost a close friend that got crushed under a crumbling building with her family (she was one of a triplets) and she survived being the only member left alive.
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Friends of families have lost their cars, workplaces, and homes. No school, military curfew after 9pm, no electricity, no data, I had lost touch with family for roughly 36 hours.
The numbers are still counting but more than 12,000 homes have been destroyed and tens of thousands more damaged (reports cite ~65,000–75,000+ damaged). The dead and injured counts keep climbing (300 and 4,000 injured).
While I recommend volunteer/donate at Global Empowerment Mission as well as contribute to World Central Kitchen, as more formal bodies that are sending supplies/help, the goal of this article is to show you real efforts to help individuals from one Frisbee community to another, with small, localized connections.
A big thanks to Santiago Acevedo, who helped put us in touch with local Frisbee organizers and is helping move donations using peer-to-peer transactions for lowest transaction costs.
If you want to volunteer, donate to fellow frisbee organizations, reach out to Santi or myself and we can get you connected!
Colombia
Here we are listing all efforts that we are seeing by the ultimate community to support those impacted.
SFLUltimate Supplies/Drive
We're still working on finalizing, but we will be doing collections for blankets, medical supplies, and food at league which we will be mailing to the main frisbee organization in Cali.
Disco Volador del Valle's Fundraiser To Help 10 Impacted Players
La Liga del Disco Volador del Valle has organized a fundraiser where they will accept donations to the organization to help more than 10 members who have been impacted by this earthquake, from losing their material possessions to their homes to even their families (either dead or still have unknown whereabouts).
Any help counts, and here you can find the organizers explaining their need for support.
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Ours and others' donations have started arriving, and they are using the funds to buy goods, here's a photo that Hugo Alessandro, organizer of the league over there has shared with us how they are using the funds:
We're working on finalizing details.
This is one of the local organizations we'll be working with.
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Aloha Ultimate's Fundraiser To Help 3 Women Impacted
Aloha Ultimate the Colombian mixed team that was runner-up at Colombian Nationals is also collecting donations to support players affected in Cali.
They are already greatly appreciative of contributions made by people right here in the United States to help the cause. Two of their players' homes have become uninhabitable and one other player lost their home completely.
The donations we've sent so far have started arriving. One player said, "Dios. Mil gracias", meaning "Oh my god! A thousand thank yous to you all".
Macana Ultimate's Fundraiser
Macana Ultimate, the 3-time Colombian National Champion & 2026 Panamerican Championship women's team from Medellín, is organzing a Vaki (the equivalent of a Colombian GoFundMe) to raise funds for two affected frisbee community members that lost most of their material belongings in the earthquake.
To all our Frisbee community:
This past 10th of August of 2026, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4, with epicenter at San José del Palmar (Chocó) shook the entire west of Colombia and the coffee-growing regions. El Valle del Cauca was the region most impacted, especially Cali and municipalities like El Cairo, Roldanillo, Buenaventura, and Zarzal, with hundreds of buildings destroyed or gravely destroyed, and impacts also felt in Pereira, Manizales, and Chocó. It has been one of the greatest emergencies that the country has lived in the past years, and many families lost their homes, their businesses, and everything they had.
From Macana, we are collaborating with the Federation to get a census of those impacted, and then we realized that the Liga del Valle has been most impacted in our community. For this reason we decided to focus our impacts on the following: two people that lost most of their belongings in the earthquake.
We understand that material goods are not the most important, but we believe that the help is what we can most do in the moment, concentrating in two cases where we can really make a huge difference, and where the community's international support could mean so much.
For this reason we invite you to become part of this. From Macana we guarantee that all resources will go to the correct people, and that we will optimize each Colombian peso to give the greatest help. Every donation is equally vital, even if small.
If you can't donate, you can at least help us by sharing this cause and giving it visibility.
If for any reason you cannot donate here, during Worlds there will be physical locations where Macana players can accept donations.
I hope this cause does not only stay in Worlds: When you come back to your country, we hope that you continue to share this information so that help keeps on coming.
Thank you for being part of this.
Macana
Venezuela
Spanglish, a mix of Venezuelan & Latin Women, have set up this fundraiser: