For the last decade, Gina Lara has spent almost every Friday evening collecting envelopes filled with about $100 in them, later using the money to deliver hope, opportunity, and community. Lara is the organizer of a Los Angeles-based cundina — also known as a tanda — a form of mutual aid common in Mexican culture.
). Regardless of when someone receives their payment, though, they’re still responsible for sending money to the tanda organizer every single week — or biweekly, monthly, or seasonally, depending on how the cundina is set up. Carlos Vélez-ibáñezEven with a weekly payment on the lower end, participating in a cundina has a few major benefits. Primarily, it’s the financial help, which is why Dulce Serapio has run cundinas for approximately 15 years.
Every participant has the choice to buy one or more numbers. As Serapio says, the more numbers someone purchases, the higher their weekly payment will be. Organizers assign a monetary value to each number and divide it by the number of weeks the cundina will run. This is the weekly payment. Whoever buys more than one number would multiply that total by the amount of numbers they purchased.
The order of the tanda also allows for a bit of built-in safety. The organizer usually gets the first number to deter anyone from disappearing after receiving the pooled funds. By their turn, they may have invested hundreds of dollars, making it more likely they will see the process through to the end. According to Vélez-Ibáñez, fraud is rare in cundinas: “There’s a 0.005 percent chance of this happening incundina or tanda.
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