Peru: COVID 19 Update
2020 Project Proposal for HOPe La Posadita del Buen PastorFr. Joseph Fedora, M.M.
HOPe has partnered with Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers for several years through the support of Posadita del Buen Pastor, The Good Shepard Inn, which began as a shelter for children with HIV. The purpose was to provide shelter, food and medical care.
Because of the success of preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV and the diminishing stigma attached to the disease, La Posadita has now become a shelter for abused young women and children who have been victims of human trafficking, and those living in extreme poverty.
With HOPe’s help we provide these young vulnerable girls safety and education.
Currently sixteen girls between the ages of 11 and 18 reside at the Inn. The Good Shepherd Sisters administer the program and five Sisters live at the Inn. Six employees and 25 volunteers also assist in providing for their health, wellbeing, protection and education.
Your gift of $5,245 this year will help make this difficult time of pandemic easier for them and improve the lives and futures of these young girls helping them to break the cycle of poverty.
Update: March 2022
Sister Rosa needs $45,000 each year to run our preschool and aftercare program. During Covid-19 she needed to feed the community.
URGENT APPEAL:
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, children and families in the slums of Huaycán, Peru are going hungry. Job loss and despair are fueling an increase in domestic violence while virus related illnesses are on the rise. Please help us FEED up to 150 children and their families at the Santa Clara de Asis Center now. Please make a DONATION on our DONATE page.
Background: In Huaycán, a suburb outside Lima, Peru lies in a sprawling urban settlement of impoverished immigrants and thousands of local citizens living in dire conditions.
HOPe has worked with Sister Rosa, a Peruvian Franciscan nun in Huaycán for over 15 years. The nonprofit has provided funds to build a three story red brick community center named, Santa Clara de Asis, and an adjoining community kitchen.
Today, over 280,000 inhabitants live in this barren, rocky suburb. Generally, a house isn’t more than bricks stacked neatly together and covered with a corrugated tin-sheet roof.
Santa Clara de Asis main focus is to support local children through education and nutrition. The center serves over one hundred and fifty (150) families daily. Because the need is so immense, Sister Rosa only helps the poorest of the poor. Many of the children suffer from TB, malnutrition and other health aliments associated with extreme poverty.
The newly built Community Kitchen is a place where malnourished children get healthy food daily and where mothers come to learn cooking.
HOPe Board members have made numerous trips to the region at their own expense to continually assess the programs. HOPe helps this community in numerous ways:
provided funds for the construction of a multi-use school building and community kitchen
food supplies
medical supplies
school supplies
educational programs and tuition sponsorship.
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