Flooding in Peru Disaster Relief = 70K+ homeless

by Volunteers for Interamerican Development Assistance
Flooding in Peru Disaster Relief = 70K+ homeless

Project Report | Dec 21, 2022
VIDA Prepping for 2023

By Adam See | Executive Director

COVID continues to plague Peru and our efforts to help Peru build out its heath care system must continue. Peru has been unable to effectively prevent and care for the nation’s most vulnerable due to its low number of ICU beds per capita, history of low investment in healthcare, and a severe shortage of medical professionals. ICU capacity is limited due to the number of beds but even more so by the small number of doctors and nurses who have this level of expertise.

All of these issues raise the need to help build the healthcare infrastructure. To that end, VIDA made 28 shipments in 2021 and 26 shipments thus far in 2022. Shipments contains ICU hospital beds, stretchers, exam tables along with hundreds of walkers and thousands of crutches as well as thousands of boxes of medical supplies including PPE and respiratory equipment and supplies to combat the virus.

A major cost in this project is the ocean freight from Oakland to Callao. We are planning three more shipments to Peru in January 2023. GlobalGiving donors play an important role in making these shipments possible. We hope you can join us in our mission to bring aid to Peru’s most vulnerable communities.

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Aug 23, 2022
Two Packed Containers Bound for Cusco!

By Adam See | Executive Director

Apr 25, 2022
Peru Battles Many Issues in Fighting COVID

By Adam See | Executive Director

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Volunteers for Interamerican Development Assistance

Location: Berkeley, CA - USA
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Twitter: @VIDA USA
Volunteers for Interamerican Development Assistance
Adam See
Project Leader:
Adam See
Executive Director
Emeryville , CA United States

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