Regalos para Navidad

As everybody knows, Christmas is coming closer and closer and while some of you might already have the first Christmas presents others might still be looking for the perfect gift.
Why not give a present to a kid in Peru?
This year we are trying to get 600 Christmas presents for all of the children in our Patron. That´s a big goal, please help us accomplishing it by donating to our organization.
In behalf of all the kids and helping hands, thank you very much in advance and ¡Feliz Navidad!

Our Volunteer Papa Noel (Santa Claus) with Sneider, Henry and Aldair

¡Feliz Cumpleaños!

On Wednesday was the birthday of on of our kids, Rocio. As a surprise we had a cake, inca kola (peru´s favorite soda) and a puppet show. The kids had a great time and definitly enjoyed the party.

Rocio our birthday princess

Carrera

This year is almost over and still there is a great event to come. We are planning a race for all of the kids from Patron San Sebastián. If everything works out as we hope, hundreds of kids will participate and run as fast as they can to get one of our great prices.

Now we just hope for good weather, a fun day and many participants!

Flyer for our race

Dia de los hermanos mayores

Our girls jumping around at the trampoline

Every Friday our volunteers take one kid each and spend the day with them being their big brother/sister. Usually all of the children want to go to "parque Urpitcha", a little amusement park in Cusco with big slides and tons of swings etc. After that everybody eats lunch at the Polleria, where the kids burn all of the calories immediately as they play in the kids-section.

It's a great day and especially the volunteers love to spend some time with the kids outside of the classroom.

Vounteers Jaime and Chris playing
with the kids at the park

Aldair and Grume

Anggy and Miriam

Medication for Ignazio

On Wednesday one of our volunteers brought special vitamins for the father of one of the students. the medication in Peru is very expensive and thanks to the "Farmacia Amistad" Ignazio can finally start his treatment.

Volunteer Basil with Iganzio and his new medication

¡Tarjetas de Navidad 2011!

This year we sell them again...our Christmas cards to rais funds for our project. Right now the kids are already busy making them.
We sell them for 4€ (5$) each and the whole profit goes directly to the kids! With the money we´ll  stock up on some school materials (books, paper, pens...) for next year and we also want to get christmas presents for about 100 children, 53 from our project. 
You can ORDER some cards right now. Just e-mail us your name, how many cards you want and your address to helpingcusco2008@gmail.com or info@helpinghandnederland.nl.
Thank you very much supporting our project.
¡Feliz Navidad!

Pediatric campaña

On Sunday we held a pediatric medical campaign in our school for all of our students and the kids from the neighborhood. Everybody received free medication and sanitizer, it was a great success.Thanks go to the "United States -  Peru friendship pharmarcy", Dr. Mariluz the pediatrician and all the donors who made this possible.
Such campaigns are highly needed and we try to have many more of them to help the population of Cusco.

Henry and his Mom talking to Dr. Mariluz

Campaña contra la giarda

Thanks to the "United States - Peru friendship farmarcy" we could donate medication against diaria to all of our kids and their families. 
Thank you very much the drugs were highly needed.

Visits to the psychologist!

While taking all the parents to the doctor, we decided that it was important to take a few of the students to visit a psychologist. And the results were astounding.

The psychologist reported that many of the students suffer from psychological issues due to their living situations at home. She recommended that some of the parents attend a weekly session to help better the lives at home of both themselves and their families.

This would cost approximately 80 soles per week (or 30 USD) and unfortunately, we currently don´t have any funds. If you know of anybody who can help us out, please let us know. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

El Carnival!

This past Friday, our volunteers decided to do something different. With the help of Babs, Megan, Hanne, Katie, and Utsav, we were able to put on a Carnival for our students!

We decorated the kindergarten with balloons and decided to take a day off from normal classes. We played ´lemon carry´ outside in the playground, had a piñata, and had a clown as the grand finale.

At the end, each child received a present with help from Katie and Utsav. The kids loved it!