Help Vikki to help Peruvian Families
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We're extending the page
29 June 2020Posted by: GivealittleThe State of Emergency in Perú is starting to lift from 1 July but children under 14 and people over 60 are still to be quarantined. The borders are still closed as are most businesses. This affects families with young children and it will take many months for businesses to re-open and for people to return to their jobs.
Families still need our support in their time of greatest news so we are extending the page for another month.
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Week 4 - 25 more families helped
19 June 2020Today the families in most need from the Cristo Blanco / Sacsaywaman community came to Pedro's house to collect their food. Thank you so much to Gordon Peel, an anonymous wonderful ex colleague of mine, two anonymous donors of $50 each, Emma Parker and Alicia Ridgen. THANKYOU SO MUCH.
Next week we are helping a very poor pueblo near Tambomachay
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Week 4 - Bulk food purchase day 16 June
19 June 2020Produce prices were lower this week so we could buy even more!
Yesterday we spent s/938.20 (NZ$470 // US$315 +/-) and bought:
rice 1 sack, sugar 1/2 sack, oats 25 packets, tinned milk 1 tray (24), tinned sardines in sauce 1 tray, 2 packs of mixed pasta (48 packets), Cooking Oil x24, salt 25 packets, sweet potato 50kgs, Potato 117kg (at a cost of only s/59.50!) oranges x100, mandarins x100, bananas x200, onion 50Kg, carrots 50kg, tomatoes 1 crate (this week only s/45 - s/75 previously), garlic 2kgs, 2 large trout.
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One of our Families
16 June 2020A mother and her daughter come to Pedro's house (our distribution point) to get food for her family. Pedro is my spiritual brother and has lived in this area for decades with his wife and their family. Pedro knows who needs help. Its important to me that when we help, that we do so in an empowering way. I tell Pedro that he is the 'jefe de la comida' - he is the boss of the food. I don't know most of these other families personally, so don't know who is in desperate need. The locals do.
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The locals we help, help us
15 June 2020My housemate is helping her local friends in need as so many of us are. Two of those who received help, asked what they can do to help us. One has cut a big branch of a tree in our garden and done other gardening work. What a difference! And the other, Wilbor, is a videographer. He came with us on 10th and 11th June and captured Project Peru. Video to follow and some of his edited pics are in the gallery.
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22 Families this week
15 June 2020On Thursday 11th we delivered:
Potatoes 1 sack 116kg
Chicken x4 (cut into quarters) Thankyou Ruth Greenaway
Bananas x200
Mandarins x100
Oranges x100
Carrots 1 sack 50kg
Tomatoes 1 crate
Onions 1 sack
Rice 1 sack
Sugar 1/2 sack
Spaghetti x 25
Milk 1 tray
Garlic 2kg (s/20!)
We spent s/926 (NZ$465 // US$310 +/-) and helped 22 families including one particularly desperate family a second time.
Thank you form the bottom of our hearts Jahanshah JJ Javid
Laura Straupenieks
(donation 2) Gloria Chan
Soluntra King
& Ruth Greenaway
(donation 2 especially for the chicken) We have s/50 left over to go towards next week.
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25 NEW families
2 June 2020Today we bought food for 25 NEW families. My brother/friend Pedro and his wife told me today of the children of these families are crying because their tummies are so sore and the parents are devastated because they have nothing to feed the family with.
Today we spent s/935 (NZ$470, US$310 +/- ) and bought :
Chicken 25 halves
Potato 112kg
Carrots 39.5kg
Rice full sack
Sugar half sack
Cooking oil 25 bottles
Milk tinned 1 tray
Bananas x100
Mandarins x100
Pineapple x25
Thank you soooo much Cindy Borrie
Laura Straupenieks
Pat Gepford
and Christine Coote
for your generous donations.
We have enough money for one more similar purchase. I don't think we'll buy chicken again although it is a staple here in Peru. Rice and veges go a lot further and the kids need fruit too. We are selecting in-season best priced fruit & Vege.
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2nd delivery complete and the families are coming
29 May 2020Today (28 may), we took dry goods up to Pedro’s house. He has contacted 15 families so far who are coming / have come and taken as much food as they can carry home. Some families have a lot of children so we are feeding over 100 people now (all in great need)
Today we spent s/393 (NZ$200 US$135 +/-) on :
Rice 1/2 sack
Sugar 1 sack
Tuna x 12 tins
Cooking oil x 12 bottles
Semolina : tray of individual packets
Pasta : tray of individual packets
Oats : tray of individual packets
Milk tinned : tray
While I was at Pedro’s house today, three women arrived to collect food for their families. They we so so thankful - and each in a hurry to get home and prepare meals.
Thankyou to Rodney Blundell Ruth Greenaway Gloria Baker & Coll RIgby for your love and support. This is how your donation was spent.
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Project Peru is underway! Day 1 of food distribution
28 May 2020Today (27 May), I went to the principal produce markets of Cusco (not the neighbourhood ones) so we can get the best value for money as we help families in need.
We spent s/498 (NZ$250, US$165 +/-) and bought:
Tomatoes 25kg
Onions 120kg
Carrots 50kg
Potatoes 128kg
Mandarins x100
Papaya x10kg
Banana 1 box
This food is now at Pedro's house ready for distribution.
Thank you Trudi Bannister (Australia)
Geri Kelle (USA)
& Liza Callen (Australia/Peru)
for your donations. This is what you bought for families in need.
Video of our morning at the markets to follow when I can get it edited.
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How are we going to help as many families as possible?
28 May 2020Yesterday (26 May) I went into the hills behind Cusco to visit with my brother/friend, Pedro and his family. We discussed the logistics of helping as many local families as possible during our 107 day (and counting) quarantine. People can’t work, so they have no money to buy food. A sad sad situation.
Pedro will discretely contact families in need who live in his community to come to his house and get the food they need - all donated by wonderful people in USA, NZ, Australia and here in Perú.
I feel so lucky to have been able to go to one of my favourite Sacred Sites (closed during lockdown) with Pedro where we did a beautiful blessing for all of you in deep gratitude for your love and assistance. Here he is smoking mapacho (ceremonial jungle tobacco) in prayer after making one offering and preparing another.
Here in Peru, we are still in quarantine so are not supposed to be outside unless shopping for personal supplies. This project is important though and I had no difficulties.
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH EVERYONE.
Videos to follow as soon as I can get them edited.
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