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"La Familia Internacional" Family Home for Female Children
We are very pleased to present our family home for girls, "La Familia Internacional" or in English, "The International Family" located in the southern Andean city of Arequipa, Peru.
We chose this name we did for a couple of reasons:
1. We are not operating an orphanage. An orphanage is basically a warehouse where only the basic needs of the children are met - mainly food, a bed, and some clothing. Period. Our home for socially at-risk female children is a family - not a shelter. Our kids receive love, attention, help, a good education, restoration, and a deep knowledge that God loves them and has a purpose for their lives. All this, and much more, like a responsible, healthy family should be.
Additionally, we do not seek to be a large home in terms of numbers of children rescued and sheltered. With a number of years of experience in this field, our focus is on quality of care given to our family and not on the quantity of children living in our home. With this in mind, we will maintain a smaller family unit. We also continuously work to evaluate our work amongst our daughters so as to give them the highest degree of care possible.
2. Our girls are part of an extended international family that participates in securing a positive future for them. This international family consists of individuals, like you, who seek to help our children in one fashion or another.
The Family Court System, located in this city, receives children from diverse areas of the large southern end of Peru. The reason being is due to the size and nature of the greater metropolitan area of Arequipa. It offers the amount of resources that other cities in that part of the country simply do not have. Additionally, Arequipa has a shortage of children’s homes that are all endeavoring together to meet the ever-growing need to shelter Southern Peru’s abandoned, abused, and exploited children.
To properly restore and rehabilitate a child, a number of matters must first be taken into account for the “Whole Development of a Child”. A few of these include:
1. Education
2. Health
3. Spiritual Orientation
4. Clothing
5. Nutrition
6. Sense of being part of a family that forms spiritual and moral values: Loyalty, honesty, responsibility, solidarity, love, humility, peace and truth, justice, dignity and respect. In order to form these values as noted in #6, items 1-5 are needed.
Arequipa, Peru’s second largest city, offers all the above in abundance, including areas of recreation and a very pleasant climate that lends itself to help create a happy environment. Coupled with this, our Peru staff has a number of years of working with the court system there and we are very familiar with the city and its workings.
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