Spanish Liga Santander club SD Eibar have given an example of solidarity by announcing they will give the gate receipts of their home game against Las Palmas to a charity aimed at helping victims of the floods currently affecting Peru.

The money raised at the game which is to be played at 19.30 hours local time on April 6th, will be donated to the charity, "Egoaizia", which is based in the Basque town of around 30,000 inhabitants midway between the cities of Bilbao and San Sebastian.

Egoaizia has spent the last 15 years in collaboration projects in the Peruvian region of Piura, one of the country's more rural areas, where an estimated 14,000 people have been affected by the floods and where SD Eibar have financed a school for the past 14 years

The floods caused by the "El Nino" weather system have so far claimed almost 80 lives, and left hundreds injured while affecting an estimated over half a million homes.

source: Xinhua