OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS THUS FAR (2001 - 2004)

Between 2001 and early 2003 we operated a shelter and orphanage for children at risk and orphans. We are a third of the way through constructing a shelter for abandoned adolescent rape victims on the beach at Delicias, Peru. We have served more than 90,000 free meals to poor children, donated more than 1,000 pairs of children's shoes, given uniforms and paid the school fees of numerous poor children so they could go to school; we have provided basic education, clothes, medical and dental care to poor children and their mothers; have sponsored 15 mothers clubs, distributed 10 tonnes of avocados to mothers clubs throughout Trujillo; raised and donated over 10,000 Tillapia fish to soup kitchens in northern Peru. We have brought more than 200 international volunteers to Peru to help in this work, and recruited a similar number of Peruvian volunteers. In addition to this we helped start and sponsor a school for Ballet founded by an ex street child, sponsored courses at the local juvenile detention centre; helped computerise the Volunteer Fire Department of Trujillo, contributed and built roofs for the largest children's home in Trujillo, a free school in Esperanza and 7 mothers clubs in northern Peru. During the past year we have also opened children's centres in Cajamarca, Trujillo and Huaraz, which are now feeding and educating 50 poor children each; with the mission of getting child labourers into school. We intend to open two more such centres in Peru during the next months. Our example has inspired a number of others in Peru, especially Trujillo, to copy this work and our projects. When it was announced in 2001 that we would be offering free meals to the poor children of Trujillo apparently for the first time in the city's history, within a few months there were at least three other institutions offering the same. Our program to get child labourers into school has inspired similar projects in Porvenir and elsewhere. This December we intend to matriculate 130 child labourers into Peruvian schools.