Chocó earthquake · 10 August 2026
We stand with Colombia — and channel international help four ways.
A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Colombia's Chocó department on 10 August 2026: more than 224 dead, over 1,200 injured, more than 3,700 people still missing, with heavy damage in Quibdó, Cali, Pereira and Manizales. RA | AI | RO is a Swiss non-profit already operating in Colombia — we are turning international donations into four concrete responses.
Mw · 10 Aug 2026
as of 12 Aug 2026
Chocó epicentre
across 4 departments
How your donation lands
Four channels — every franc, euro or dollar goes to one of these.
No field kitchens, no branded T-shirts, no PR truck. Four concrete things we already know how to do — scaled up for the earthquake response.
Recruiting professional experts with your donations
Foreign engineers, structural surveyors, medics and rescue specialists cannot simply fly into Chocó and start working — licensing, work permits and credential recognition block them at the border. We solved this legally: we hire them into the Colombian SAS we co-founded, so they deploy as local employees the day they land. Your donation pays their salary, insurance, travel and per-diem while they are on assignment.
Providing the software needed to solve the issues
When the ground stops shaking, the coordination problem starts: who is missing, where the aid trucks should go, which families lost documents, which shelters have capacity. RA | AI | RO already runs applied-AI tools in the field — displaced-person registration, damage-mapping, legal-aid intake, language triage. What should we build next? You tell us: suggest an app, upvote what matters, watch the top of the list ship into the Chocó response.
Donating homes to homeless families
Three homes are already secured under Colombian promesa de compraventa — two in Armenia, one in Bogotá — waiting for the pool to close and the deed to be transferred to a vetted family. Every home is field-verified by our own staff, not a subcontractor: neighbours confirm, documents are reviewed, GPS-tracked audit log. No middlemen. No overhead siphon.
Creating jobs and helping you migrate to Europe
For Colombians whose home region cannot rebuild fast enough, we open a legal path to work in Switzerland and Germany. myjobmy.life places qualified candidates with employers who sponsor the permit; suiza.co and alemania.co walk families through the paperwork in Spanish. No coyote, no smugglers, no debt bondage — a job contract, a permit, a landing.
Who we are
Swiss-born, already on the ground.
supported
applied AI
worldwide
every franc reinvested
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