Foto of the Week — Community Helps La Plata Flood Victims

In a refreshing show of non-partisan solidarity, community members gathered at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Buenos Aires last weekend to sort donations for victims of recent flooding.

In an unusual display of functional chaos, citizen volunteers, including Boy and Girl Scout troops, accepted and sorted donations of clothes, furniture, cleaning materials and bottled water to deliver to the most severely affected victims of recent flooding.

According to the governor of Buenos Aires province, Daniel Scioli, 51 people died due to the flooding. The number has been hotly contested — as some say the death toll was considerably higher — but that the government is attributing those deaths to other causes in order to minimize the severity of the incident.

The same location where volunteers gathered appeared in broadcasts across the globe just two weeks earlier when the community gathered here to celebrate the election of an Argentine Pope.