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THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING
The National University of Engineering (Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, UNI) is a public engineering and science university located in Lima, Peru. It was founded in 1876 by the Polish engineer Edward Jan Habich as the School of Civil Constructions and Mining Engineers. Today, it is widely regarded as the foremost science and technology oriented university in Perú, many of its alumni occupying today positions of leadership in the fields of Industry, Academia and Government.
UNI is organized into eleven faculties which contain twenty-seven academic departments. It's a university polarized around science, engineering, and the arts. Current admission is highly competitive, with 10 applicants per vacancy in the most demanding fields such as Civil Engineering, Systems Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Mechatronic Engineering.
UNI is widely known for being rigorous, demanding great focus and effort from its students. Given the competition level to be accepted to the National University of Engineering and it's highly demanding curricula, the university is commonly acknowledged as the most difficult to attend in the whole country.
First sponsored child to go into university
Alberto, one of our first sponsored children, got into Universidad Nacional de Engenieria, one of most difficult universities in Peru to get into.
Here Alberto is having his hair cut (shaved) as a cutome in Peru to those young people that get into univeristy for the first time. Alberto is one of the poorest families in the charity.
Alberto finishing secondary school
Alberto's house at the age of 10 outiside his house
Alberto's house
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MAY 2011
Best achiever in education: Dayana sponsored by David and Hilary
Most popular in school: Luis sponsored by Simon
Best investor (bought a complete bedroom set with sponsors cash gifts through out the years): Alberto sponsored by Mark and Helen
Best business minded owning now their own business: sisters Mirian and Alondra sponsored by Mark and Helen (Mirian) and Anne Jesty (Alondra). These two girls are now come out of poverty and all the family is doing very well. THANK YOU Mark & Helen and Anne!!!!
JANUARY 2011
Children's reports have arrived and are being translated at the moment. We also have some letters from them to their sponsors. Translations will be ready by the end of the month.
All the children are enjoying the summer in Lima at 28C until March when school starts again. Most of them will be working with their parents because this is the time where people buy small things on the beaches of Lima. They will be buying and selling, preparing sandwiches for sales and doing other activities similar to this.
A couple of sponsors have sent cash to the children, activity which we wouldn't like to happend again. This is due to fact that if the post office finds out, then future parcels to the charity will be missing because they might think that there is money inside the parcel. Another reason is that once the money is given to them we can't ensure that the money given is spent in the child. Please give your donations by Paypal or send a cheque to Help Women and Children directly.
NOVEMBER 2010
Dayanna's mother got a job, with the help of the charity, as cleaner in an established cleaning company in Lima therefore she doesn't need to be a street seller on the market anymore. This is a good job for her! Noemi, the director of Help Children in Lima is arranging a deal with the cleaning company if they can provide more jobs for the mothers in the charity.
Daniela, an sponsored child, got a scholarship in a private school in Chorrillos. She is a great bolleyball sports playing for the national children's team. The head of the school watched her playing and the next week she was offered a place in her prestigious secundary school. Daniela will start Year 8 in March next year. We are very happy that she has prospered so much during the time as a sponsored child.
Copyright@2010 Help Women and Children. Help Women and Children is a non-profit UK organization helping women traumatized by childbirth through its project Birth Trauma Counselling. Help Women and Children is a charitable company limited by guarantee in England and Wales No. 5959138 based in Surbiton, Surrey, UK and working together with Peruvian Charity Help Children in Lima Charity No.203
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Sponsors experience
A REWARDING EXPERIENCE
In the Spring of 2009 I made a trip to Peru to visit the family of the child I have been sponsoring for a number of years through this charity.
My daughter, Fiona, was the first member of my own family to become involved with the charity when she went out to Peru to do two weeks voluntary work teaching English to young children. On her return to the UK she asked me and my partner Gavin to become sponsors and specifically asked me if I would sponsor a child called Gregori since he and his family were particularly needy.
Gregori is an absolutely lovely child and I was delighted to be able to visit him and his family. He lives with his mother, disabled brother, older sister and his niece in what we in the West would consider very poor conditions. However, I was able to see that the money that Gavin and I have sent in addition to our sponsorship money over the years has made a big difference to their living accommodation. As an example, one Christmas we sent some money which we were told was used to build a wall in the house. In our ignorance we assumed this was an internal wall but I discovered during my visit that this had been spent on building an external wall. Gregori and his sister had been sleeping in an unsafe environment exposed to the outside - unbelievable by our standards.
The joy of meeting the Peruvian children - Gregori and his siblings and also the girl that Gavin sponsors - is that they expect and ask for nothing and appreciate every single thing that you give them. They are also extremely well behaved and polite. During my stay in Peru I was able to let Gregori experience many things that he could only have dreamed of in the past, for instance going to the zoo, playing on amusements and eating in McDonalds, even going up an escalator and a lift. He had not done any of that during the thirteen years of his life.
It is thanks to Martha Jesty and her sister Noemi that my trip was made possible. I was anxious about not being able to speak very good Spanish but I need not have worried, I managed and I was fortunate that Noemi's son, Wiler, was in Lima and able to interpret in my conversations with the family when I visited them which was very helpful.
I do not know whether I will get to Lima again but Gregori is often in my thoughts. I plan to continue my sponsorship of his education (and eventual training) until he is able to get a good job and help support his family, at whatever age that might be. Meeting him was a very rewarding experience.
Julia Hockey
It is very satisfying to help Alejandra in a quiet and unintrusive manner and make her life just a little easier. She seems to be getting on well.
We love hearing about Dayanna's progress at school and learning something from her letters about life in Peru. Dayanna loves reading and writing, like us, and it was lovely to find out that Dayanna won a prize in a poetry competition.