About this site

An independent, unfunded directory — started the day of the earthquake by someone who felt it.

Support Colombia started as a single emergency page. On 10 August 2026 at 7:34 in the morning, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck western Colombia with its epicentre near San José del Palmar, Chocó. Searching for how to help produced a mess: liveblogs with donation links buried twelve paragraphs down, aggregator pages stuffed with ads, and organizations that had never said anything about Colombia. The page existed to be the boring, fast, correct version of that search.

Two months later the emergency is over and the rebuilding has barely begun, and the same question — who is actually doing good work here, and how do I give to them safely? — applies far beyond the earthquake. So the site now has two parts: a directory of established organizations working across Colombia, and an earthquake page tracking recovery. The original emergency page is preserved on the home page.

How organizations get listed

1. A track record you can check: years of operation and published annual reports or audited financials, or a four-star Charity Navigator rating for the organization's US arm.
2. Real work in Colombia: a Colombian organization, or an international one with a named Colombia program.
3. Its own donation route: buttons point at the organization, or at the vetted platform it uses for US donors (GlobalGiving, Every.org). The card says which.
4. Nothing paid, nothing traded.

Organizations we are still checking are named openly on the home page, so you can see what is pending and why.

What ratings can't tell you

Charity Navigator stars and audits measure financial health and transparency, not impact per dollar. GiveWell, the strictest cost-effectiveness evaluator, has no top charity working in Colombia. We say so plainly rather than pretending a Colombia list can match that standard.

How this site makes money

It does not. There are no ads, no affiliate links, no referral codes, no sponsorships, and no donations collected here. Nobody paid to be listed and nobody can. If that ever changes, this paragraph changes first.

Corrections

Corrections are the whole job. The earthquake page keeps a public log of what we got wrong. If a link is dead, an appeal has closed, or a Colombian organization doing real work is missing, please say so.

Last full review: 21 October 2026.