Peru in Crisis: A home for Morrope

What's going on?
The floods - the worst in almost 30 years - have affected over half of the country. More than 800 towns and cities have declared a state of emergency. 
There are shortages of food and water in many areas and prices have risen by 5% on average in the past week, the government said. For Morrope, Lambayeque, a small rural community classified under the Peruvian government as "extreme poverty," the situation is worsening as time goes by.
 Last week, heavy flooding caused extensive damage to many of the houses, schools and roads in and around the area of Morrope, especially in the small annexes of Angolo I, Angolo II, and Chochor.
A great deal of the population in these areas have built their homes utilizing adobe, a material that proves to be completely unstable under the smallest amount of rain and wind.

Who are we?
Ebony, Valerie and Daniela, as United States Peace Corps Volunteers, have lived and worked within this community for two years.  We now desperately need your help to provide shelter and safety for those who have lost everything.

 What do the people need? 
They asked, above all, to be given tents.
More urgent than food, they need a safe place, sheltered from the elements, to sleep.
The citizens drink the collected water from the on-going continuing rains, and walk two hours in the flooded streets to purchase any type of food. Most, if not all, of their livestock has drowned due to the formation of lagoons.


So what's the solution??

Build domes. 

What....a DOME? why a dome?
Due to the triangles that make up its structure, it is very stable to the dynamic and static (anti-seismic) forces, while still maintaining a light and easy to assemble infrastructure.

Due to its semi-spherical shape, it provides efficient ventilation to the interior as the airflow is circular and, at the same time, causes continuing rain to flow over its cover, preventing build-up. It also allows the flexible use of space, seeing as how it does not have a division within the interior of the infrastructure.

How much does a dome cost? How will your donation help?
Each dome costs 550 soles, or, $170 U.S. Dollars.

One dome can house up to a family of 5-6 individuals.

Any and ALL donations have the option of receiving a “thank you” digital post-card that illustrates the completed domes along with the families. You are then asked to please supply an email address along with your donation.

Who is going to build the domes?
Currently, we have partnered up with the "Iguana" organization and the school of architects in the capital city of Chiclayo, to build these domes FREE OF COST. That is to say, none of the donations will go to pay for the cost of assembly.

Thank you for your donation!!

For more details and pictures on the DOME Project, please refer to the links below.
https://iguanaorgblog.wordpress.com/2017/03/01/manual-domo-refugio/

https://iguanaorgblog.wordpress.com/2017/03/19/tras-las-lluvias-chochor-angoloi-y-angoloii/