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Photo: Jacob Goad, PC(USA) mission coworker
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance — working in cooperation with our partners and fellow members of the Action by Churches Together (ACT) Emergency Alliance — continues to respond to the massive earthquake that struck Peru Wednesday, August 15, 2007.
The areas most affected by the earthquake include the regions of Ica (with the cities and provinces of Pisco, Ica and Chincha), Lima (provinces of Cañete and Yauyos) and Huancavelica (provinces of Huaytará and Castrovirreyna).
PDA partners include Andean Regional Office, Center for Studies and Disaster Prevention (PREDES), the Evangelical Lutheran Association for Aid to Community Development (DIACONIA) and Lutheran World Service (LWR).
The response includes:
- providing temporary emergency shelters for 100 families;
- providing 100 families with a family water deposit, a smaller deposit with drinking water and a latrine;
- providing training in hygiene and managing water; sanitation facilities will be provided;
- providing 250 families with food kits;
- psychosocial and community support;
- recreational therapy sessions for 1,000 children.
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance is also in communication with the Anglican Church in Peru and Caritas to offer our support in their relief efforts that include:
- opening of soup kitchens in more rural areas, like Guadalupe in Ica;
- work with the wounded in Lima hospitals;
- providing food, lodging and spiritual care to families of the wounded.
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