We had many visitors to the orphanage this month. A young peoples group from Colorado, a family from Florida who is considering adopting, and a missionary family who lives in Trujillo are considering adopting a baby. We welcome groups who would like to come and do projects, as well as families who are considering adopting a child.

I was really touched by the families I met in a town called Bosco Vazquez. The town has no electricity, no sewers and no drinking water. The water they buy is from houses on the other side of the Pan American Highway. Those houses only have salty brime water only good for washing and watering the sand. The people of Bosco Vazquez contacted me because the town’s people collected 600 dollars to buy water tubing, which they purchased, but the water district would not install it. The tubing was stored in the master bedroom of a representative for 4 months. She and her husband had to crawl through all these tubes without any light just to go to bed. To show me the tubes, she had to light a candle in her bedroom. With the help of our great supporters we by-passed the water district and used the tubes they purchased to bring fresh water to their pueblo. In fact, they are the first to get fresh drinking water. I wish you could be here and see the smiles and glowing eyes of children drinking fresh clean water for the first time.

We had a very interesting experience with a boy, 13 years of age, who came to the orphanage escorted by police. The boy could not speak or hear and he was sleeping on the streets of Trujillo. For his protection the police brought him to the orphanage. The boy was extremely strong for his age and did work projects around the orphanage. Our secretary was listening to the evening news from Lima, and on the news this boy’s picture was shown. Aracely recognized him right away. His mother who lived in Lima was trying to locate him. Our director immediately contacted the authorities and his mother came to Trujillo to take him home. The boy makes a living washing the windows of large trucks that travel the highway in Lima.

We recently had a women bring her five year old nephew to the albergue who has aids. Both his parents died of the disease. She was looking for a place to leave him (basically to die) since she doesn’t have the means to buy the medicine. There is no institution in Peru for children with AIDS.

I saw on the internet news that a person in the U.S. was making news by trying to have a life of putting less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The gentlemen was riding his bicycle to work, not eating package goods and using utilities very sparingly. That is nice but he knows that in the future he can change his ways. There are 18,000,000 poor in Peru that have a life of not putting much carbon dioxide in the air but never get mentioned in news for their life style. We have it pretty good.

Thanks for your prayers and support.

Chau,

Dave and Vickie