Chile Earthquake and YWAM Bases in Chile
A 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit central Chile on February 27th causing major damage and deaths throughout the nation.
So far reports from Youth With A Mission centres throughout Chile have been positive. The Santiago, Pichilemu and Castro locations are all okay, but without power. The Santiago base is also without water at the moment as they rely on a pump for water.
Twitter is reporting (that always sounds funny to me) that Pichilemu Chile experienced 17.5 foot waves after the earthquake. The water washed all the way into the centre of town. Quite a few people from the community are currently taking shelter at the YWAM base as it’s located higher than other parts of the city.
The Santiago YWAM base was having their DTS graduation on the day of the earthquake, so quite a few families that lived in the city were at the YWAM location and so they reportedly escaped the damage that happened in the main part of Santiago.
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There is a new post on the YWAM International web-site at http://www.ywam.org. I think that they are planning to keep that as up to date as they can when they receive news from YWAM in Chile.
Thank you very much for posting this. I and friends and family of a young lady in Pichilemu were concerned because we hadn’t heard any information after the earthquake occurred. Is there any way to make sure that other family members of those who are in these YWAM groups would be informed of this as soon as possible? This was a bit difficult to find. I ended up having to google search Pichilemu Chile Earthquake YWAM and it came up as the first link.
Anything you could do would be very much appreciated!
Thank you!