After several cases of millionaires lending boats, jeeps and helicopters to rescue survivors of the floods that devastated over 400 municipalities, leaving hundreds wounded, missing or dead, pledging to keep the jobs of all employees of facilities that have been destroyed and shipping planes filled with provisions, comparisons are being made between the rescue efforts done by private citizens(and companies) with the ones done by public institutions.

Last week while I was in the line awaiting for provisions, there were 2 helicopters always coming and going in a football field nearby that was adapted to be a landing place for missions. One of those belonged to the firefighters but the other belonged to a tech company from the city called Emply, that seemed to have lent it to the rescue efforts of the population of Sinimbu(a small town nearby that was completely destroyed last week).

The City also opened a line to coordinate rescue efforts with private citizens who happened to own boats or jeeps and several vehicle owners came forward as volunteers. It was something beautiful to see in the middle of a tragedy. Private individuals coming forward offering their work and/or donation of resources to the effort of rescue and rebuild. And that without mention the fact that one of the most influential businessmen of Brazil, Luciano Hang lent 2 of his helicopters to be used on rescue missions by the state. Elon Musk also told he will donate over a thousand Starlink terminals as our entire internet infrastructure is quite unstable due to all those bridges and highways collapsing.

Private entities like "Friends of the Valley" are also gathering resources among local businesses to rebuild the highways and bridges that have been destroyed.

More examples can be seen on Hive account@coyotelation's post on this link.