COVID Community Campaign Update
The CACE COVID Community Relief Campaign has reached its half-way mark. Since early August, we have delivered vital medicines and basic food and cleaning supplies to serve 16 partner communities in Loreto, Peru. 600 families received a package with rice, noodles, cooking oil, salt, sugar, and soap to last a few weeks. This effort has honed our logistic abilities and challenged our endurance.
Our program coordinator Yully Rojas contracted COVID-19 in mid-August - perhaps while buying relief supplies from poorly protected vendors in public markets. She is slowly recovering now after breathing supplemental oxygen for three weeks. Our newest team member Andrea Isuiza has now finished the first round of buying, packing and sending supplies to our partners on boats throughout the region.
While the crisis level health effects of COVID in our partner communities have subsided, people are still weak and need help to recover from the pandemic's devastating impact on their local economies. We will first address these needs by sending a second round of medicines and basic supplies to our partner communities. Where artisans are able to start working again, we are placing new orders for crafts for the Christmas season to give them some fresh income.
So many of our community partners have thanked us for these supplies that are helping them survive the worst conditions they have ever faced. We thank the Sisters of Mercy and everyone else who has contributed to this campaign so far. Please join this effort.
