Peru Earthquake, how can we help

As you will probably know by now, Peru was hit by the worst earth
quake in the past 50 years last Wednesday evening, August 6th at 6.40
pm Local Time. Epicenter was 60 km off the coast of Ica, some 200 km
south of Lima. 2 consequent quakes, the first of which measured 8.0 on
the Richter Scale and the second 7.6, shook the whole South of Peru
for 2 minutes and destroyed the cities of Ica and Pisco and their
surrounding areas almost completely. Thus far 510 people are confirmed
killed, 1600 injured, 17,000 houses destroyed and over 85,000 people
homeless or otherwise affected by this tragedy.

Having lived in Peru for nearly 7 years, this hits Karin , myself and
the CAT Team in a very direct way as lots of people are suffering
right now. We have a lot of friends and colleagues in the area, so our
thoughts are with them and their families at this time as we hear more
terrible stories on the news.

Besides the human side of the catastrophe, we've also received news
that there are many tourist sites have been damaged in the Paracas/
Pisco Area, including the famous Catedral de Paracas , and the Mummies
Museum...we still don't know the latest situation of "El Candelabro"
or the Ballesta Islands.


At CAT we all have been extremely lucky as so far our team members,
families and friends in Peru were saved from this dreadful experience.
One of our team members has her family living in Ica but apart from
their house being destroyed, miraculously they too were spared. Still
many, many people are in direct need of help and as rescue operations
are starting , we would like to call for your help as well to help the
people in the Ica and Pisco region. Please click on the following link
to see what you can do to help relieve the worst anguish for those
most in need: http://www.cat-travel.com/Peru-Earthquake-Help.asp

If you can, please be so kind to cut and paste this html banners in
your blog or e-mail signature to let people know how can they help.

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Thank you very much in advance for your generosity; the people in Peru
will be better of thanks to you.

Bart

http://bart-cat-travel.blogspot.com/

I just made a contribution via Mercy Corps, which has a very good
reputation. http://www.mercycorps.org/topics/emergencies/1798

I'm also aware that the South American Explorers Club is collecting useful
items in Lima and trucking them to Pisco.
http://www.saexplorers.org/club/earthquake

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Vancouver, BC, Canada
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