Janaury 2026 flooding in Arequipa, including in Sabandia where the Instituto de Rehabilitación Integral para Discapacitados (IRID ) the centre for handicapped children that SUPC supports is located. The rainy season usually starts in February, this year it started early and was been extremely damaging this year: overflowing ravines and mudslides destroying everything in its path including vehicles and homes.

Both IRID and the Cuna Jardin escaped major damage but the children’s families and neighbourhoods in the surrounding areas were devestated.

Six dead and more than 4,000 affected by the rain