- Within the framework of its campaign “Together for the North“theWiese Foundation made its third delivery of dry foods kits to serve 500 surviving families in the province of Sechura, in the Piura region.
To date, several areas of Peru face a desolate panorama caused by the sudden and intense rainfall due to the presence of the Coastal El Niño Phenomenon. The regions of Tumbes, Piura and Lambayeque have been declared in a level-5 State of Emergency, which corresponds to a disaster of great magnitude that exceeds the country’s response capacity.
These climatic anomalies have not only entailed thousands of disaster survivors, but also the loss of lives. According to a recent report from INDECI (National Civil Defense Institute), in the province of Sechura 462 people are disaster survivors and 7,064 are affected ones, as well as 55 homes destroyed, 104 uninhabitable homes and 2,166 affected homes.
About the intervention
In the face of this panorama of crisis and to mitigate the damage, the Wiese Foundation and its strategic ally Adra Perú joined forces and resources to distribute 500 raw food kits to the same number of surviving and affected families of the township of Parachique-La Bocana and the area of hamlets in the Sechura desert, Piura region.
In order to ensure that the aid reaches the most vulnerable people, the team from both institutions carried out the corresponding census, verifying in situ the damages and the conditions in which the potential beneficiaries of this third delivery of food found themselves.
What foods are included in the kits?
Each raw food kit is designed to feed a family of 4 members for 5 days. With this, we seek to bring relief to the critical situation that the aforementioned families are going through, attending to their food needs, while they manage to resume their economic sustenance activities.
At the Wiese Foundation, we reaffirm our work and commitment to helping the most vulnerable communities during emergencies and disasters. Learn more about our Humanitarian Aid Program here.
