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Voices from the ground: Covid 19 response in Loreto, Peru (4-18-20)

May 2, 2020

In AAA-SALSA COVID-19 Taskforce, COVID-19 Lowland South America, Public Issues News

Voices from the ground: Covid 19 response in Loreto, Peru

Rainforest Foundation

4-18-2020

Indigenous Kichwa leader Betty Rubio Padilla, President of the Native Community Federation of the Medio Napo, Curaray y Arabela (Federación de Comunidades Nativas del Medio Napo, Curaray y Arabela, or FECONAMNCUA) and Ticuna leader Francisco Hernandez Cayetano, President of the Federation of the Ticuna and Yaguas Communities of the Lower Amazon (Federación de Comunidades Ticunas y Yaguas del Bajo Amazonas, or FECOTYBA), both affiliates of the Indigenous Peoples’ Organization of the Eastern Amazon (Organización Regional de los Pueblos Indígenas del Oriente, or ORPIO), are actively coordinating their response with Rainforest Foundation US and ORPIO, local government officials from the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Culture and Peruvian security forces to support local communities who are imminently threatened by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Read the full article: https://rainforestfoundation.org/voices-ground-covid-19-response-loreto-peru/