Don Gilberto sells ice cream to make a living day by day.
When the 7.4-magnitude earthquake shook Colombia on August 10, he did not hesitate: he pushed his own work cart to a collection point and delivered several cans of sardines that he had bought with his own money. It was not a fortune. It was, literally, what he had.
His gesture joined others just as humble: a girl in Medellín emptied her piggy bank, Yolanda Cifuentes brought a mattress, and Eurley, another 73-year-old ice cream vendor from Comuna 13, donated 250.000 Colombian pesos from his savings to buy rice, oil, and panela.
No one asked anything of them; they simply looked at the little they had and decided to share it. 🍦❤️