Materials for the new year

The Community Program for the accompaniment of children with projected capacities is conceived as a community-based rehabilitation program - although we do not fully agree with the term rehabilitation, because that would be to think that the children, without our accompaniment, do not have skills, which is completely false.

The truth is that our accompaniment of the children is direct: in the communities, in the houses and with the presence of the family. We start from the particular needs of each child and the expectations of the family to build together a strategy that helps the child to improve their own skills -according to their possibilities, in harmony and with the rhythm of the family and nature.

That requires a lot of tact from our coordinators since, on the other hand, from the Central Office we also require a cautious reporting of the accompaniment of each child with a specific planning and a constant evaluation of the advances. For that, generally, coordinators need some therapy materials for each child.

That sounds little, but in sum, the amount of materials requested by the coordinators for the nearly 80 children that we accompany, is great. That is why, each year our managing partner Lola Paredes travels to Lima where we can acquire these materials at a lower cost.

When the materials arrive in Cajamarca, the Main Room of the Network's premises is filled. From there we have to order, distribute, pack and send everything to different destinations. It is a job that normally takes us a week.

This year, with the generous support of our volunteers from Colombia, we did it in a single day. Thank you with all my heart to you Gaviota, Hasbleidy, Mayra, Paula and Sara!