Peru / Brazil

• A thriving community of faith

• Building Parish Chapels (Peru)

• Ayacucho Mental Health Clinic (Peru)

• Manuel Duato Special Needs School (Peru)

• Seed Potato Agronomy Project (Peru)

• Youth Catechetical Programs (Peru)

• Casa Ninos After School Program (Peru)

Accompanying Newcomers

Lima, Peru, is a city which has grown rapidly over the last 50 years from around one million inhabitants to nearly nine million. Thousands of new families are still coming in from the country or moving out from overcrowded suburbs closer to the city. There has been no overall city planning, with the result that the newcomers quickly buy or simply squat on empty lands, no matter how barren, sandy, rocky or sloping the terrain may be.

A thriving community of faith

The chapel Fr. Don and the people are dreaming of would be made of adobe bricks, and the builders would utilize sand and gravel from the river during the building process.

A rooftop aviary in Peru

If the engineering theme wasn’t interesting enough, we found something in their house that makes this family even more interesting.