Accompaniment at a distance

With the onset of the pandemic in Peru, the activities of the Community Program had to adapt to a very different situation. Social distance does not allow our coordinators to continue visiting children with projectable abilities at home.

Fortunately, one of our main strategies has always been to train family members so that they themselves can apply the necessary therapies and exercises for each child. For this, the Community Program also provides families with the materials that each child requires.

Now and for the moment, the accompaniment is by mobile phone: our coordinators constantly call the children's families, ask about progress, suggest new exercises, advise when there are difficulties. Of course, it is not the same and the coordinators say they miss meeting their children. The personal visit, the smiles and hugs cannot be replaced by a phone call, but at least we are there, present and encouraging.

At the same time, from the Central Office we try to encourage our coordinators. We communicate with them by phone, we share training sessions by WhatsApp and sometimes we also manage to meet through one of these virtual platforms.

It is not easy, because not all of us always has access to the internet, but it is the effort that is important. Seeing each other's faces excites us and gives us the courage to move forward, together even from a distance.