Peru: VIDA saves lives in Latin America with Bay Area help

PERU (KGO) -- Each week we examine stories that affect people who live and work in the Bay Area.

Sometimes the local charities we focus on have an international impact.

This week, ABC7 News Anchor Cheryl Jennings travels to Peru with Haydee Rodriguez-Pastor, Co-Founder of the nonprofit organization, VIDA USA, based in Emeryville. VIDA just marked 25 years of delivering surplus medical equipment, supplies and medicine to impoverished areas in Latin America.

Click here to learn more about the Orphanage in Lima.

Click here to learn more about the campaign to save Santi.

Click here to support the family's GoFundMe campaign.

Click here for more information on Home for Families in Medical Crisis.

Click here for more on information on Otis McAllister, the Oakland-based global food and beverage company helping VIDA U.S.A.