News from Peru
In this blog we inform about current news and exciting topics from the project casayohana Peru.
Happy Easter to all friends and supporters!
Swiss-Peruvian reinforcement 🥳
We are happy to present you another reinforcement for our team this week: Celina Chavez is an occupational therapist, comes from Switzerland and supports our team for half a year! 😄 She was particularly interested in supporting a project in Peru for a while, as she...
*The situation remains critical *
This week we are mourning the death of a family member of one of our employees. She was raped & killed. From January to November 2020, according to official data, 2803 children & adolescents in Peru were victims of sexual violence, 981 of these girls then gave...
Team growth!!! 🥳
Hello dear ones! After the Christmas break, we're back today with some great news: The casayohana team is getting two new German members! 🥳 We are very happy to welcome Matthias and Uta Kügler tomorrow with us in Andahuaylas!!! 🤗 🥳 The couple has been working at the...
Merry Christmas!
Christmas elf at work
Even though many things were uncertain & unplanned this year, one thing is reliable: It's going to be Christmas!🎄🎅🏼 And our Christmas anticipation is rising more and more: This week we had a huge fun wrapping presents!!! Now we're looking forward to telling the...
A short update 💜
Here is a picture and sound update from Bine about the current situation in Peru:
Special challenges require special measures
For 7 months now, the families from our projects - and about 500 other people - have been provided with clothes, blankets, food and medicine. Thus the worst consequences of corona, namely malnutrition, secondary diseases and hopelessness can be cushioned. But the...
Great therapy week
We are very grateful that two therapists from the missionary hospital Diospi Suyana in Curahuasi visited us again this week! 🙂 We have been able to treat many children and are very happy about all the progress and tips & tricks we have learned from them! 😀
Welcome to the family!
The casayohana family is growing! 🥳 We are super thankful that we can welcome two new churches to the support team: The LKG Hofen, which will support Bine and the Andreasgemeinde from Mühlheim in the Ruhr area, which supports the work of casayohana as a partner...
Faster than expected
After only 5 visits and 4 subsequent documents, this week we were granted the first of three parts of our operating license on the new site. 🥳 We are very grateful that it worked so quickly and without any problems! Gott ist groß! ...Now only two are missing 🙂
Home visit with happiness factor
Yesterday we visited our new children in the project to bring necessary medicine, food and other things. And to see and hear how they are doing. We were so happy to see how skillfully and lovingly Neymar's mom does his exercises - and how well they do this little...
Roomtour
In the last week we were able to furnish and put into operation more and more rooms of the second house. Now the bathroom, the treatment room and storage rooms for food and clothes are already in use. Things are progressing... and that is just great! 🥳 😊
Ingenious help
For 10 days we had visits from therapists & technicians from Diospi Suyana. We were able to visit our families with them & it was so nice to see how our children benefited from it! In the meantime, Matthias has been working on our security technology & has...
Piece by piece
Slowly but surely things are progressing on the construction site! Our fresh water cistern is now filled & works together with pump and tank; The water tower is getting paint and the lightning conductor on top has arrived; The railings at the women's shelter are...
First steps
Auch wenn wir gerade nicht alle Kinder besuchen können, weil sie in anderen Städten festsitzen, erreichen uns immer wieder Updates und Fotos wie es ihnen gerade geht. Es ist so genial die Fortschritte zu sehen, die sie machen! Diese Woche haben wir zum Beispiel ein...
* QUARANTINE MOVES TO THE NEXT ROUND*
After various announcements - already in the last week - it now seems, at least in our province, to come to a total lockdown with the closure of all activities. Yesterday, the regional mayor declared this same lockdown from 27 July to 30 August. Our hospital has 4...
!!!HUNDRED & ELEVEN FAMILY MEMBERS!!
What is better than 1000 & 1 Dalmatian?BY ALL MEANS: 100 & 11 FAMILY MEMBERS! We are so grateful & happy for all friends who support us with their loyal donations! For all people who make our family support program possible! This week we could welcome the...
With “cozy warm” against cold times
Bei uns in Peru ist gerade Winter. Das heißt: Tagsüber zwar viel Sonne und nachts krachkalt bis weit unter 0 °C. ❄️ 🥶 Damit die Familien trotz undichten Fenstern und ohne Heizung nicht frieren, haben wir in den letzten Wochen angefangen, neben Lebensmitteln auch...
Quarantine over!!!
We have just received the news that the quarantine in Peru will be lifted in large parts of the country as of July 1 - even here! We are incredibly happy about this, because many Peruvians can now work for their living again & it makes our work much easier! Only...