On 17 August Peru’s Covid cumulative death toll rose to 197,487. Peru has the world’s highest number of Covid deaths per capita. Poverty, high levels of informal labour, and intergenerational housing have contributed to the high rate of transmission. The secondary impact of the pandemic is children losing their primary and secondary caregivers. Children orphaned by the death of one or both parents or bereft of other caregivers are often more vulnerable to poverty, abuse, institutionalisation, and harmful mental health impacts. Psychosocial support and trauma counselling is a prominent need. As children in Peru and around the world confront death in a unique way, may their perspective and grieving process be shaped by a Godly perspective and the Father’s heart.
Peru: pandemic’s secondary impact on children
Written by David Fletcher 19 Aug 2021Additional Info
- Pray: for the global church to consider how to care for children under these circumstances and protect the next generation from the destructive secondary effects of the pandemic. (Proverbs 22:6)
- More: www.incontextinternational.org/2021/08/18/peru-grapples-with-pandemics-secondary-impacts-on-children/
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