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Mission, vision and values
Our mission and hope : We are a group of high school students who in 2015 launched on a mission to improve the lives of abandoned children and elderly in the Andes. Our vision: Happy, healthy, educated kids and cherished elderly make a better world Our values:
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What we learn and who inspires us
Dear Friends,
Every year we are grateful Msgr. Salvador Piñeiro shares his home in Ayacucho with us and opens our eyes and hearts to the beauty and reality of life in one of Peru’s poorest regions. He introduces us to amazing people who dedicate their life to the service of others. He does all of this to empower and encourage us to bring hope and help to the orphans and elderly of Ayacucho and to teach us how to become better brothers, sisters and friends. We want to share with you how hope and kindness are fueling relief and long-term solutions for Ayacucho.
Over the years we have met a Canadian missionary who came to care for psychiatric victims during the Shining Path guerilla war and he never left. Ayacucho lost a third of its people in that conflict. We have also met Spanish, Mexican and Indian nuns, Brazilian priests, Peruvian nurses, teachers and local volunteers who work tirelessly for the elderly and abandoned kids. These are among the most giving, dedicated and inspiring leaders one can have the opportunity to meet and help.
This year, several nuns who run the only senior home in Ayacucho contracted COVID-19 while tending to over 110 elderly patients in the locked-down senior home. I am sad to say we lost 10 elderly. Baby nurses are exhausted, short-handed, without any external support at the nurseries, but they are gratified it kept the kids safe. Soup-kitchen volunteers cooked countless meals for those without income or food because of lockdowns. We have been able to help them with funds for medication and food. We are encouraged to think we have finally learned the process of how to optimally help our girls who aspire to technical training or university to make it happen. We teamed with caretakers to help our first candidate, Ninoska prepare, apply and earn acceptance to a university. For 2020, she got a government scholarship. We are going to apply these lessons for other girls who dream of a bright future. This is contributing to long-term solutions of poverty and injustice in Ayacucho.
These are the people who share their hopes, dreams and lives with us, who teach and inspire us with their love and sense of duty. But the babies, children and elderly at the homes melt our hearts. So do the many random acts of kindness that local people extend to each other. On pages 15-19 of our 2020 Annual Report we share some of our most powerful impressions. Thank you for your interest and support. Please feel free to reach out to any of us.
Sincerely,
Sofia Laboy
Dear Friends,
Every year we are grateful Msgr. Salvador Piñeiro shares his home in Ayacucho with us and opens our eyes and hearts to the beauty and reality of life in one of Peru’s poorest regions. He introduces us to amazing people who dedicate their life to the service of others. He does all of this to empower and encourage us to bring hope and help to the orphans and elderly of Ayacucho and to teach us how to become better brothers, sisters and friends. We want to share with you how hope and kindness are fueling relief and long-term solutions for Ayacucho.
Over the years we have met a Canadian missionary who came to care for psychiatric victims during the Shining Path guerilla war and he never left. Ayacucho lost a third of its people in that conflict. We have also met Spanish, Mexican and Indian nuns, Brazilian priests, Peruvian nurses, teachers and local volunteers who work tirelessly for the elderly and abandoned kids. These are among the most giving, dedicated and inspiring leaders one can have the opportunity to meet and help.
This year, several nuns who run the only senior home in Ayacucho contracted COVID-19 while tending to over 110 elderly patients in the locked-down senior home. I am sad to say we lost 10 elderly. Baby nurses are exhausted, short-handed, without any external support at the nurseries, but they are gratified it kept the kids safe. Soup-kitchen volunteers cooked countless meals for those without income or food because of lockdowns. We have been able to help them with funds for medication and food. We are encouraged to think we have finally learned the process of how to optimally help our girls who aspire to technical training or university to make it happen. We teamed with caretakers to help our first candidate, Ninoska prepare, apply and earn acceptance to a university. For 2020, she got a government scholarship. We are going to apply these lessons for other girls who dream of a bright future. This is contributing to long-term solutions of poverty and injustice in Ayacucho.
These are the people who share their hopes, dreams and lives with us, who teach and inspire us with their love and sense of duty. But the babies, children and elderly at the homes melt our hearts. So do the many random acts of kindness that local people extend to each other. On pages 15-19 of our 2020 Annual Report we share some of our most powerful impressions. Thank you for your interest and support. Please feel free to reach out to any of us.
Sincerely,
Sofia Laboy