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Aldeas Infantiles SOS Perú, has been working to provide a home for kids without a family for 31 years.

Today we have a new dream; to build 14 houses in Ayacucho, where thousands of kids don´t have a place to live. You can change their destiny today !

Av. Jose Galvez Barrenechea 592 - Ofic. 603, Ubr. Corpac - San Isidro
Contact : Marcos Calderon
Phone. 226-7450
Fax. 226-5669
amigos@aisosperu.org.pe
www.aisosperu.org.pe

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Aprendo Contigo is an educational/recreational based program that functions since the year 2000 at the Cancer Institute (INEN), since 2003 at the shelter for HIV positive children (La Posadita del Buen Pastor) and since January 2006 at the Center for Orthopaedic and Neurological Diseases (Hogar Clínica San Juan de Dios). You can visit our website:www.aprendocontigo.com (English Version)

Our fundamental objective is to create an environment of normalcy for the patient during hospitalization or treatment. They continue to have access to appropriate lesson plans, learning materials as well as continued creative development through various handcrafts, workshops and hobbies. From an emotional aspect we strive to not make their illness the center of their lives.

The program assists on a daily basis approximately 120 children hospitalized and close to 100 on a walk-in basis. Since its founding, in the year 2000, Aprendo Contigo has helped over 3,500 hospitalized and over 20,000 patients on a walk-in basis.

Aprendo Contigo would not be a viable enterprise without the invaluable contribution of the approximately 200 Educational Assistants, people of all ages, nationalities, and professional backgrounds. EA´s are responsible for the execution of the educational and recreational aspects of the program.

Aprendo Contigo does not receive any government support. Classroom maintenance is achieved completely via our Corporate Volunteers Program, our Christmas Campaign as well as voluntary cash donations and in-kind contributions from various companies as well as private citizens that truly believe in the work we do.

HOW TO HELP

By becoming a Volunteer: Aprendo Contigo accepts foreign volunteers on a short (no less than 3 months) and long term basis upon evaluation. Some Spanish is required.

By purchasing our Christmas campaign products (Christmas cards, wrapping paper, calendars, etc.)

By monetary contributions:
• Banco de Credito- account in Peruvian Nuevos Soles). No. 194-1553313-0-29
• Interbank - (Account in Peruvian Nuevos Soles) No. 132-3000116702
• Interbank – (Account is US Dollars) No. 132-3000240623
By in-kind contributions:
Calle Bellavista 587, Miraflores,Lima, Peru

Calle Bellavista 587, Miraflores, Lima
Contact : Marisol Stiglich
Phone. 4478140
informes@aprendocontigo.com
www.aprendocontigo.com

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The Comunidad de Niños Sagrada Familia, founded in 1989 by Miguel Rodriguez, is currently home to over 600 children, mainly from Lima and Cuzco. These children are left either by their families, the government, or in the case of kids living on the streets, are willingly taken to live at the home.

At the home, they teach the children the importance of values, and to consider themselves a family. All the children go to school and do extra lessons and activities at the home, as well as helping with chores, cooking or caring for the younger children.

Sagrada Familia does not receive any government support so funding comes mainly from donations in addition to some self-generated income from their workshops. The most important workshops are bakery, carpentry and ceramics, which also allow the kids to learn trades that will be useful to them in the future.

English-speaking volunteers interested in helping can contact Cristina Espejo at 9346-2829 or 446-5264.

Panamericana Norte Km. 37.5, Zapallal, Ventanilla.
Contact : Miguel Rodriguez
Phone. 550-0372
Phone. 9721-0228
Fax. 402*3677
ninos_peru@hotmail.com
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GrupoVida is a nonprofit NonGovernmental Organization run by voluntary women committed to the development of underprivileged women in Perú. This initiative emerged from observing the high level of physical and moral abandonment of the destitute single teen mothers and their children.

MISSION/VISSION
Develop, support and promote projects that significantly contribute to the consolidation of a social network in favour of the adolescent single mothers affected by violence and abandonment through management and networking actions based on joint efforts between social, public and private sectors.

Empower underprivileged adolescent single mothers through technical education in our Training Center and reinsert them in the workforce in a sustainable way. At the same time, we provide them psychological support for their emotional development, self-esteem fortification and mother/child bonding, contributing to break the poverty link from one generation to the next.

PROJECTS

We are actually working a Pilot Plan developed in a textile factory through an alliance as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility Program. They provide us the space in their plant and give us technical support. The mothers are trained in manual labour, applications, QC, stain removal, ironing, and other issues of the “finishing process�?, under the textile export international standards. The training period is 14 weeks, after which they are evaluated and hired by the company. Guidance on how to form their own micro-enterprises is also given.

To complement the success of the program, we have an agreement with the MIMDES and their WawaWasi Program, through which we provide special care to the mother’s children, who are fostered and fed while their mothers are training. This WawaWasi provides the children the love, attention and care they require, as well as early education, health treatment, prevention and vaccination from the Health Center.

It is our goal to have our own independent Technical Training Center with bigger space and capacity to help more teen mothers and children.

La Mar 333, Of 209, Miraflores
Contact : Margarita de More o Ana Luisa Rey
Phone. 440-1951
Phone. 99979110 - 818*404
Fax. 255-4345
ong_grupovida@yahoo.com
www.onggrupovida.com

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Peru faces now a time when the conditions are in place for development. The macro economic indicators show that an economic growth has taken place in the country thanks to the expansion of the world trade.

Unfortunately, the fruits of that growth have not yet reached the majority of the Peruvian citizens, the extremely poor sectors, those who are excluded from progress, the communities in the highlands area of Peru, who are still supporting the hard cycle of inequity, exclusion and paradoxical poverty.

During the last few years the implementation of social programs has continued. The experience shows that those strategies increase in the long term poverty and abandonment, and the beneficiaries' passive role hinders a sustainable development.

The Instituto Trabajo y Familia (ITYF) will implement an ambitious and ethically effective program: to link and strengthen the existing social capital of Peru, through productive and social development issues, and to provide support to the organized capacity of our communities in the Andean highlands, respecting their traditional habits and providing them with educational and technical tools for their development.
The ITYF invites you to be part of this effort according to your own possibilities: with economic support, helping to disseminate the program aims. The road is open in SEMBRANDO.

Jr. Augusto N. Wiese 127 of 18
Phone. 4285365
institutotrabajoyfamilia@yahoo.com
www.sembrando.com.pe

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