Our thanks to Julian and the staff at The White Feather Foundation for their support.
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The White Feather Foundation is delighted to announce that it has been able to help this small NGO in Peru. Changes For New Hope is struggling to arrest the hunger, malnutrition and basic education of these extremely impoverished children in Huaraz. To date the charity has been able to help with the supply of reading glasses, encourage essay writing, community campaigns, chess tournaments and a Sports Day. The latter brought several groups together encouraging community pride, dental health, environmental awareness and teamwork. There was vital discussion of health projects to eliminate hunger, malnutrition and parasites.
We have been able to help Changes For New Hope buy milk powder and shoes. The rainy season ruins shoes and the children wear their shoes until they literally fall apart. We have also been able to assist with the purchase of pens, pencils, notebooks and other basic school supplies.
These children need multivitamins too; unfortunately none are available in Huaraz. Changes For New Hope would be thrilled to receive any support from vitamin companies and have been busy writing to several in the USA.
If you would like to sponsor an individual child it will cost in the region of $20 USD per month and you could find out more from the CFNH website. This seemingly small amount could mean a larger step forward for many of these children and their families and as importantly help them to help themselves.
Jim Killon, the Founder of CFNH says:
"Debility is the grease on the rails of poverty. It has been proven the world over that when people are receiving an abundance of free assistance without responsibility or accountability, poverty continues. Our children earn what we give them. The bar might be set quite low in some cases but every child has to come up to a level of accomplishment for everything we give them with the exception of food supplies or medical attention, which I feel are human rights."
Another area that CFNH is exploring is the simple question of lighting. Without sufficient light children cannot read or study. A fellow NGO in Peru has told them that if a plastic soda bottle is filled with water and suspended through thin aluminium roofing, the refracted sunlight into the building will illuminate the area many times more. Better still Jim and his team are hoping to source and use wind up lights. These work on entirely 'green energy' and give several hours of light plus they can also recharge a cell phone.
Jim will be sending us photos of the children in their new shoes and will keep The White Feather Foundation and its supporters informed of all progress in Huaraz.
Changes For New Hope is also partnered with the Omprakash Foundation in the USA.
www.changesfornewhope.org