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People in the U.S. Provide Relief for Victims of Earthquake in Peru

SOLIDARITY WITH THE VICTIMS OF THE EARTHQUAKE THAT STRUCK PERU

The Embassy of Peru in the United States has opened the following bank account in the HSBC Bank to receive monetary donations to assist the victims of the earthquake that struck Peru, on August 15.


For wire transfers inside the United States:

• Account name: Embassy of Peru – Sismo Peru 2007

• Account number: 389060178

• Routing number: 021001088

• Bank address: HSBC Bank, USA, NA

                                    1130 Connecticut Avenue, NW.
                                    Washington DC 20036

Checks can be mailed to the following address:

• Embassy of Perú – Sismo Peru 2007

          1700 Massachusetts Ave., NW
          Washington DC 20036

For additional information

Please call (202) 833-9860.

Peru and the victims of the earthquake want to thank in advance all those who wish to show their solidarity in these difficult times.

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# Marisol del Solar-Meyer says :
17 August, 2007 [ 23:40 ]

San Diego, August 17, 2007

Dear "Living in Peru",

Thank you for the wonderful informative work you do, I love "Living in Peru" and being able to share all the information with my husband who is an English native speaker and who is learning Spanish...We are in San Diego, California and I wanted to share this information with you guys, please click in www.houseofperu.org . I am part of a big group of Peruvians and friends of Peru who are members of House of Peru, a non-profit cultural organization based in San Diego, California and we are doing all the pertinent efforts to help our Peruvian brothers and sisters.

 I am also aware that in Chicago, IL there are many Peruvians that want to send things to Peru but no one is taking care of that, only accepting money donations, maybe someone will want to send stuff to San Diego and we will ship it through a container to Peru we are working hand to hand with Wawa Wasi Foundation (www.abrigoandinoperu.com) who have experience with these kind of humanitarian donations and also other religious institutions like the Church of Santa Rosa de Lima in Chula Vista, California.

I would like to kindly request you if you could pass along this information so all the Peruvians that live in San Diego and along the US Nation could join us in this humanitarian effort.

 Thank you for the time taken in reading this email and we look forward to be able to help our fellow Peruvians, all under one heart, the heart of solidarity and compassion.

Marisol del Solar-Meyer
Oceanside, California (San Diego County)

# lily says :
18 August, 2007 [ 02:47 ]

I live in San Diego. I was born in Pisco in came to USA 40 years ago.

The best way to send money is through a relative in the local area.  I have second cousins in Pisco e Yca. My family and I are sending money through local bank accounts in USA and they get it by ATM.

I'm looking for organizations like the Salvation Army to donate more. S A is the only organization that sent 100% to the katrina victims every other organization including the red cross only sent 90 to 80% the rest is for admistrate cost.

I know several peruvians in L A, S F that want to done money but they don't know how or  don't trust some of the many organizations.  We'll never know it the help reach the people.

Money is the best thing to send and so they can buy blanks, warm clothes, food, clean water, medicine and later build their their homes.

# MARIA TERESA RODRIGO says :
18 August, 2007 [ 13:30 ]

For all you fellow Peruvians living overseas, you can also send emergency food and other items to our fellow countrymen who are suffering. 

Enter the webb page www.ewong.com and register your email and you will immediately get a password in your email.  Once you have this password, go ahead and shop, they even have facilitated a list of non-perishable goods.  Wong will charge your credit card using Verified by Visa and will deliver the goods to the proper destination.  Today I got 48 cans of canned fish, 48 liters of milk (easier to use than cans) and around 16 big jugs of bottled watter.  It was a small contribution to ease the thirst and hunger of our countrymen.

My first cousin has a place close to Pisco and Paracas.  Yesterday the civil defense authorities took 50 people to her place and she is putting them up in her huge family room and the guardian's house.  These people are helping to clean the water well which was damaged with the quake.  All of us have a role to play, please be generous.

Do not forget, to purchase for the quake victims or if you want to shop for your family and friends, go to www.ewong.com.  This is not an advertising, only a suggestion.  What I am suggesting to the SUNAT is that all purchases for the victims be tax-exempt.  Will they act on my suggestion? 

Tere

# Lily Silverthorn says :
19 August, 2007 [ 03:34 ]

The story I'm about to tell can not be hear on the local news.

I was born in Pisco, a small town on the coast of Peru, south of Lima (the capital of Peru) about 4 hours by car. The earthquake was centered in Pisco but affected other towns and communities around that area, like Chincha and Yca. Lima was not affected that much except for old building coming down.

I called one of my brothers in Lima and he said that it looked like the end of the world. The quake lasted 2 minutes, it seems like it will never end.  My two brothers that live in Lima are fine and were not affected by the quake except that the are very demoralized and sad. People walk the street like sombees. There are after shocks two or three times a day, People can't sleep for fear that another one may come, but this is nothing of what happened in Pisco, a fishing town.

I called my niece, who lives in Ica, about 6 hours from Lima just south of Pisco (two hours from Pisco). She said that she was going home to Ica from Lima on the bus and just before she got to the town of Chincha the quake started, about 6:30PM, kind of dark, because it is winter in Peru; she saw the road opened and the cars being swallowed, one of the main bridge collapsed and she could not continue her trip. People waited until the next day to continue the trip. They cross around the bridge for two hours to take another bus to go home. On the way to Ica she saw towns after towns destroyed by the quake like a war zone, very sad scene.  She got home at 11 PM the next day, Thursday. On Friday she went to Pisco to see her three brothers and one sister. They were closed at a place close to the Panamerican Hwy. where they took refuse and this is what they related.  After the quake, about 6:45PM,  the ocean subside about 100's of feet; they being fisherman for three generation, knew that the ocean will come back full force, by 11 PM the ocean came and inundated the entire town, 80% of the houses/buildings were destroyed included their fishing boats, the water came as far as the main square where the cathedral was completed destroyed with about 100 people inside. The new people that don't know the ocean where killed or affected.

My niece took her three brothers and one sister and their family to her house in Ica, 20 of them.  The little kids are sick with cold or pneumonia because they had to wait in the cold all night until help arrived. The  tempeture was about 5 degree(Centigrader), translate that to Farenheim, very cold. Their house didn't collapsed because they were build strong but everything inside were lost, there is about 4 ft of water still standing inside the houses. The main tourist hotel, Paracas, in under mad, all gone.  Thank God they are ok. but they have lost everything. My niece said, we are all together now if we die will die together.
The food stores are closed because they afraid to be looter. There is no electricity, the hospital can't function without it. The roads are destroyed and help can not come through or fast enough.
Our family here in the USA has sent money to the family affected. I have also have two other nieces that lives in Pisco, They and their family have moved to Lima to stay with relatives.

I have been asked by many friends, coworker and church members how to help. My family has help but there are about 120,000 people affected. You don't hear this on the news. They have lost everything, there is no water, no food, they are homeless, there is no medicine, no transportation, the help doesn't come fast enough.

For those that want to donate, The Salvation Army has a local site in Peru and they are taking donation, it is tax deductible. You can contribute to any of your local Salvation Army, just make sure that you put DISASTER RELEASE FOR PERU-PISCO.
I trust the Salvation Army more than any other organization because almost 100% goes to the victims. Other organization like the Red Cross, UNICEF, etc., etc., etc. take 10, 20 or 30% for administrated cost as per FOX News that did an investigation during the Katrina disaster.  You may also ask your local church or pastor.

God willing I would like to go to Peru/ Pisco to help build that little town where I have so many memories. My heart aches for them; the little they have is all gone.  God help them.

Keep the victims in  your prayers and may God bless you

Lily

# Cynthia Pileggi says :
19 August, 2007 [ 12:02 ]

Looking for my dear friend, Jillian Stansbury, from the USA, staying in Chincha. Is there a place to locate missing persons? Thank you so much for any information.

What is the best organization to donate to, that will get needed supplies to that area of Peru?

Thank you and Blessings
Cynthia Pileggi
CO
USA

# Marisol del Solar-Meyer says :
19 August, 2007 [ 15:07 ]

I agree with Lily that a lot of "big" organizations keep some percentage of what is donated and this includes the Salvation Army too, but...it is up to you....It is your decision and best judgment. In regards of cash there are lots of options to send donations to Peru, you can click on Salvation Army, or Red Cross or House of Peru (www.houseofperu.org) or www.consuladoperu.com where there is a list of all the Peruvian Consulates in the USA and each had opened a bank account for this matter. Again, it is your best judgment and wish...

As I am personally involved in House of Peru, which is a non-profit cultural organization, mainly with Peruvian members living in San Diego and with a lot of good wishes and prepared to help our fellow Peruvians. I can guarantee you that what we are doing will be donated and delivered safely and with no intermediaries in Peru, to the people in Pisco and surroundings and specially with no silly percentages going elsewhere....We are not huge, we are not small but everything is taken care in a proper way and all of us are volunteers we don't receive a dime out of any money.

I am also contacting my cousin who lives in Pisco but who is currently in Lima so she can help me with more on site imput, with someone I can trust. There wil be two people from San Diego going to deliver everything: Ms. Sharon Hall (www.abrigoandinoperu.com) and Mr. Alejandro Montoya (ex-congressman of Peru in the 80s and well known business man).

The Peruvian Consulate in Los Angeles is not receiving USED CLOTHES they only receive new clothes with tags on. This is the information that I received in a phone call from Orange County, there was this nice lady asking me if she could come to San Diego to drop off all the clothes she had to donate. WE ARE DOING A BIG COMMUNITY EFFORT to send all these clothes and be sure that we will everything is received by the people who really needs them. There is no small effort toward all these people who are suffering as we take our time in reading all these emails...let's think about them.

Bless your heart for your help and support and it doesn't matter who you donate to, be sure that your help will be highly appreciated.

Marisol

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