A Call to Help Flood Victims in Peru
Over 12,000 people have suffered the effects of severe flooding in Peru ’s Sacred Valley between Cusco and Machu Picchu. Planeterra has mobilized an onsight team to help with the immediate needs of the local people. The nonprofit has established an online help site: Peru Flood Relief (https://app.etapestry.com/fundraiser/PlaneterraFoundation/PeruFloods/) where the public can make charitable donations.
One of the communities severely impacted by the flooding is Ccaccaccollo, an indigineous community devoted to pastoral and agricultural activities. It is also home to Planeterra’s women’s weaving cooperative (http://www.planeterra.org/pages/project/19.php?id=23), a community which travelers visit as part of the organization’s Project Peru voluntourism adventure.
An appeal has also gone out to anyone now in or planning to visit Cuzco. Donations of blankets, sleeping bags, warm clothes for children and adults, jackets, raincoats, tents and mattresses, dried food (rice, pasta, oatmeal, cans of tuna, sugar, salt, evaporated milk, etc) and matches can be dropped off at: Hotel Tupac Yupanqui (Calle 236 San Agustin) in Cusco.