due to heavy rains in our area, a large mud slide (rocks, sand, gravel) took out 2 small villages in the Ollantaytambo area. Tanqqa and Phiri
HMR helped a flood relief organized by a tourist named Morgine
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Peru-Flood-Relief-Effort-from-a-tourist-in-the-flood-zone/163034657180135
yesterday March 1, we helped distribute some of the Aid collected to the flood victems living in leaky tents.
Help in donations of money came in from points all over the valley and in Cusco. Great Job Morgine! glad we could lend a hand.
roofing corrugated metal sheets to re enforce their leaking tent roofs
bedding and blankets as well as food stores for their soup kitchen
HMR had left over toys for children from our christmas activity's with the National Police that we handed out to the children.
loading relief materals in urubamba plaza
the community member truck transported the bed mattresses, blankets, food and 266 sheets of roofing metal from urubamba to their tent city a half hour down the valley.
massive rock n gravel took out houses
this house was new last year, had a garden n wall around it.
bedding, and roofing materals happy faces thanks to all that helped donate to this cause
big hugs for everyone
Beds for the Tents, with more funds still coming in will purchase more mattresses
we handed out toys for all the small children, dolls and toy trucks left over from christmas events of HMR and the Urubabma police
soup kitchen at Phiri, with food bought by funds raised by Morgiane!
soup kitchen at Tanqqa
10 feet or more of sand gravel slide that took out the homes, came from mt Veronica above.
Tent city at Tanqqa , the roof low angle collects water that leaks-streems into the tent, people were wet n cold sleeping on tent floor. now with the metal sheets fixed to the roofs this will help to keep them dry and warm at night with mattresses and blankets
