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Severe cold threatens children's lives in Peru
Posted on Monday, August 20, 2007 @ 16:43:18 UTC by admin |
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Winter temperatures and high humidity are endangering the lives of thousands of children and their families whose homes have been destroyed by the Peru earthquake.
Friday, August 17, 2007
 Our emergency
response team, which arrived in the country last night, is reporting that
80-100% of housing in the worst affected areas around Pisco and Chincha Alta
has been demolished by the quake. Up to one million people live in the area,
and may have been affected.
As temperatures drop at night, the high
humidity levels make the air cold and wet, and families are struggling to
survive with no shelter and few blankets. Thousands are sleeping in the open
air, forced to scavenge for firewood in an attempt to keep warm. Lack of food,
clean water and medical supplies is posing a major threat.
"The
conditions on the ground are horrific," says Richard Hartill, Save the Children
UK's South America Programme Director, who is currently in Lima. "Children are
spending nights in extremely cold temperatures, having lost their homes, their
clothes, their food - everything. The full extent of the damage is not yet
known, but entire communities have been cut off from urgently needed medical
supplies, food and water. There are still people stuck under the rubble, and
the longer families are left in the cold without blankets and shelter, the
bigger the death toll."
450 people are confirmed dead, but Save the
Children are concerned numbers will rise steeply in the upcoming days. Severe
damage to roads and to landline and mobile networks is still hampering rescue
efforts, with little reliable information available from a large part of the
affected region as to the extent of the devastation.
Today we are
sending two assessment teams out to assess the damage and the needs of
children. The first team is going to Pisco, where continuing tremors are still
traumatising children. In addition to having to sleep in the cold, many have
also been separated from their families during the chaos, and are extremely
vulnerable to abuse due to growing disorder in the city.
The second
team is heading for the rural areas around Ica. Here we are concerned that
highly toxic chemicals such as cyanide, used by families working in small
silver and limestone mines, may have contaminated water supplies.
The
magnitude 8.0 quake struck at 6:40 p.m. local time on Wednesday with an
epicentre about 90 miles southeast of the capital, Lima. It was followed by two
large aftershocks of magnitude 6 and 6.3.
What you can do
We
have launched an appeal to raise £1 million to fund our emergency
response in the area.
To make a donation:
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