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Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) is working on a project to support the Peru government’s epidemiological control strategy to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in community transmission.
The project aims at enhancing preventive control of COVID-19 in transit areas and disseminating reliable information for coronavirus prevention in urban areas.
A total of 3,000 people will benefit from the project in three vulnerable communities of San Juan de Lurigancho District, Lima.
Until now, the tasks that have been accomplished include purchase of control/protection equipment, supplies for hygiene and protection kits, and backpack sprayers for disinfection.
Together with the Provincial Branch of the Peruvian Red Cross in Lima, the volunteers assembled the protection and cleaning kits to be distributed in the vulnerable communities affected by COVID-19.
The distribution activities began in the three target communities. So far, hygiene and disinfection kits have been delivered to 174 families (522 persons) as follows: Asentamiento Humano Residencial El Para?so - 38 families, Asociaci?n Centro Poblado las Casuarinas de Jicamarca - 86 families and Asociaci?n de Vivienda Residencial El Para?so - 50 families.
The distributions were made in compliance with the social distance dictated by the government. At the same time, key messages were disseminated during the distributions to reinforce prevention and care behaviours against COVID-19.
This project is part of QRCS’s initiative to support the fellow National Societies in 22 countries across six continents, aimed at protecting 320,000 persons against the virus with a total budget of QR2,236,827.
These countries are Palestine, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Tajikistan, Mongolia, Laos, Vanuatu, Ethiopia, Chad, Senegal, Mauritania, Ivory Coast, Mali, Sierra Leone, Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, Venezuela, El Salvador, Peru and Panama.
The list of activities conducted by QRCS in support of those countries includes provision of equipment and supplies for health facilities, provision of medicines and medical supplies, protection for medical professionals and volunteers, provision of food and shelter for families worst affected by loss of income, and provision of protective supplies - masks, gloves, sanitisers, etc.
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26/10/2020
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