Peruvian children at risk; a government that does not have adequate funding to care for all of them; poverty and ignorance; and a great lack of orphanages and children’s homes to fill in the gap.  These are but just a few of the issues dealing with the daily realities of thousands of Peru’s children.  

    Many rural families are migrating to Peru’s larger cities in search of “a better life”.  However this dream quickly fades into the harsh realities of city life: The difficult economic circumstances of that country, low level of education of rural inhabitants, and the indigenous cultures from which they came. All this coupled with living in very poor and unsanitary pueblos and high crime rates in the poor areas in which they live.  This produces interfamily violence resulting in psychological and physical mistreatment towards their children.  Also, is the moral and material abandonment that many of these children face on a daily basis.

    While Peru is a beautiful country full of wonderful and kind people, we at Restoring Hope International are seeking to bring healing and hope to above-mentioned segments of that country’s society.

    Our focus is to rescue young female lives as that gender is most at-risk when exposed to the negative elements of their societies.  While very few people are personally able to go to Peru and work there on these children’s behalf, all of us are able to our part to help these young lives to varying degrees.

    Our Peru staff has a number of years of project development in the care of female children-at-risk in the Arequipa area.  We believe in “Blooming where you are planted” and to do it very well for the sake of these kids.  They are looking in Hope to all of us, in our global community, to lend them a hand so that they may become the individuals that every one of us hopes our own children will attain to be in life.

    This generation of children is the future of our societies.  If there is little or no hope for these children, then there is little or no hope for their societies which will continue to degenerate as help, aid and hope continues to decline.