70,000 people have been afflicted by the constant and devastating landslides provoked by the incessant rain that has been inundating Peru since January and is now beating down on Bolivia.

Thousands of displaced persons, over 250 health-care centres destroyed, 54 schools devastated. These are numbers that tell only a part of what the Camillians in Peru are trying to do by distributing health kits, food and medicines, in particular in the area of Lima through Father Kike, and with Father Marco Antonio in the remotest areas.

The requests for help have been growing, not least because the rain has not stopped. This meteorological phenomenon is unprecedented and is certainly a result of climate change. El Nino, as the event is termed, comes from a warming of the waters in front of Peru. The water has reached 29 degrees, causing unceasing rain and authentic bombs of water, such as those that very recently afflicted Bolivia.

CADIS renews its appeal to help the people afflicted by the unending devastations and help the people of Peru. The people who are the victims of the flooding are for the most part poor people who have always been forced to live in conditions of precariousness and social injustice.

The photograph is of Father Marco Toscano, a Camillian, Peru

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