Beginnings are not always chosen
Writing about Ifach and “the DANA,” we could go on at length, but out of everything we felt and experienced a year ago, we only want to write about our gratitude.
Thank you to all of you who helped us so much—friends and strangers alike.
Thank you to Carlos, Begoña, María, Javi, and to the volunteers who arrived at our workshop as early as October 31, when we were already exhausted from clearing mud—bringing nothing more, and nothing less, than your hands and the determination to do whatever was necessary to pull us out of that mire.
Thank you to Amparo, Montse, Tomás—not only for your support during those days—and to all of Guillermo’s friends, who came to help him at his home and made it possible for him to be in two places at once, working both there and at the Ifach workshop.
Thank you to Ana and to the volunteers—our friends' children and their friends—who came days later, already equipped with boots and brushes, and with the same determination as those who arrived at the very beginning.
Thank you to Marcos and Berta, who helped us keep our spirits up when you came to what we had planned as a SUP bootcamp in Massanassa and which turned into a week of cleaning and rebuilding.
Thank you to Alcem-se and Marina de Empresas, which not only were the first to support us financially, but also encouraged us not to give up and reminded us that beneath the mud, the floor was still there. Thank you as well to Desde Valencia para Valencia, who also supported us through Mamás en Acción.
Thank you all. Today, we begin again.
