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It was great to get our group introduced to you over the last month. In the coming months, it will be our goal to keep you up to date in each of our specific areas.
As I thought about what to update you on this month, God led me to share with you some of the things Project New Hope International has been doing or is doing in
1. We have regular children's programs involving about 800 kids every week in the barrios.
2. We are doing character teaching in several schools.
3. We help support education opportunities in the barrios by sharing our facilities with groups focused on that in the barrios.
4. We have helped provide water to two schools with several thousand students, partnering with Water for the World.
5. We have helped build many water tanks in the barrios.
6. We have helped build many bathrooms in the barrios.
7. We have helped build kitchens in the barrios.
8. We have built community centers in 5 barrios.
9. We have built a clinic in a poor area which should start functioning with the help of one of the Universities in town.
10. We partner with Hope 4 Kids in sponsoring about 250 kids in the barrios; food, clothes, bed, etc.
11. We have a full time youth worker in the barrios helping form youth groups. They have over 250 kids participating.
12. We have had various businesses helping provide jobs. We have a dairy farm with 150 cows.
13. We are helping the people build hundreds of chimneys in houses in the poorer areas.
14. We are working to help the people start bakeries in the barrios.
15. We have helped build many houses in the poorest areas and repair many falling apart.
16. We have regular activities in different areas for the senior adults in the barrios.
17. We have taken lots of youth on retreats out of their barrio.
18. We have helped sponsor kids days at parks and the beach for the poorest of kids.
19. We are helping the people in community development through a program called LifeWinds.
20. We are seeking to help get medical supplies to the hospitals through a group called Project CURE.
21. We helped sponsor a free dental clinic for 100 kids from the barrios, cooperating with Rotary club.
22. We are forming Community councils to help the people carry out many programs in the barrios.
23. We have sponsored health campaigns in the barrios in the form of cancer tests for women and parasite testing for children.
24. We are doing charter teaching in many schools with teachers.
25. We are working to bring a team from the
26. We have had over 500 people from the U.S travel to
gone to rest homes, orphanages, hospitals, special-ed schools and the women's prison.
27. We have offered marriage seminars in many barrios and in the city.
28. We have brought psychologists from the U.S to do training and teaching.
29. We are supporting 9 Peruvian families and 5 singles and are training them how to help in the community.
30. We are opening a refuge for women in crisis in
31. We have cooperated in encouraging U.S. Aid to come to
32. We have taken groups of women from the
33. We had a group of women from the
34. We have helped build a sports court in a barrio and plan on another soon.
35. We had our first Rendezvous in
projects in the barrios.
36. We worked with IPD in the past on sports programs and plan on doing more.
37. We have had little girl’s choirs in the barrios; they are suspended right now for lack of support but plan on restarting them.
Wow! These are examples of what God is helping us do through you in
I believe God is preparing us for greater things ahead. If you would like to help support more of this go to our DONATE section and let your heart be your guide. Let your friends know and encourage them to help make a difference in the world.
In Him,
John
