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Sending gifts to your sponsored child
If you would like to send cash gifts to your sponsored child this Christmas or her/his birthday, please fill in the form below and press the Paypal DONATE button. It will take you to a secure server where you can pay by credit card.
Please do not send cash by post. See below for more information
Sending gifts by post
It takes about 6 weeks for gifts to arrive
from UK to Lima, Peru. Please send the
parcel addressed exactly as shown below:
Directora Sra Noemi Chuquivala
c/o (+the name of your sponsored child)
Help Children in Lima
Jiròn San Cristobal Mz i-11 Lote 3
Los Cedros, Chorrillos, Lima-Perú
As soon as Noemi receive a parcel/gift
she will send you an email confirming
that parcel have arrived.
Sponsors Corner
JANUARY 2012
Finishing the reports is a huge job. First reports need to come from Lima in Spanish to be edited and approved for any missing information. Then send them for translation into English. After that all reports need to be proof read (comparing original with translated document to have them perfectly translated). Then send one by one to each sponsor. Total hours of work in Peru and UK for 3 people 60-70 hours. I am so glad that you got your report to see how much you are giving also to your sponsored child! Thank you so much sponsors!!!!
DECEMBER 2011
Alberto one of our oldest sponsored children just got into university “Universidad de Engenieria” in the 10th position! La Universidad de Engenieria is the equivalent of Oxford university, being the most difficult one in the whole country to get a place and where very famous Peruvians have studied. Please read the following http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universidad_Nacional_de_Ingenieria
Your giving is so important for these children, they are bright and good children trying to come out of poverty and you have given them this opportunity. Thank you so much for everything you do for them! You are reaching far more people than you think, changing their lives for ever.
SEPTEMBER 2011
What a joy to have spent time with the children and their families in my latest trip to Peru! I have so much to share with all about how you are changing many lives with your donation and your gift for the children and their families.
I will have a talk about my work in Peru on Friday 7 & 14 October at 7pm. Please bring a friend or colleague with you. I will also talk how you can get more involved to raise money for this charity. I am volunteer for this organization, as you might know, but there is no amount of money that can pay the joy that I have when I see one life flourish as I have seen throughout the years with these families!
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.
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Your experience as a sponsor
We at Help Women and Children would love to hear your experience as one of our children's sponsors in the programme. Pleople who visit the Sponsor Corner page will read your story and, in this way, will help them to understand your rewarding experience as one of our valueble sponsores and the way you have changed many lives.
Please fill int he form below with as much information as you wish.
Sending notes directly to your sponsored child
You can send your news to your sponsored child in July (Peruvian Independance Day) and December (Christmas) by filling in the form bellow. Your letter/note will be translated into Spanish before it reaches your sponsored child.
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Sponsors experience
Thank you for the reports on the two brothers Martin and Luis. I really can see how you and your sister's work benefits these children and I have huge admiration and respect for what you are doing. It is wonderful to know that such a relatively small amount of money can help so much. JT, sponsor
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.