Raising Awareness
Bex with the children teaching drawing. Her talents, patience and love for the children opened their eyes to new adventures.
During one interview, I said "Having a humanitarian project in the Peruvian Andes is like winking in the dark. We know what we are doing but nobody else does."
What is a greater challenge is that those who do read or hear about us don't necessarily care. People are caught up in their own lives. But after seven years here, we have grabbed some attention from such media organizations as The Good Men Project, Awaken, Inspire Me Today, The Philanthropy Channel and in May 2016 Changes for New Hope was named in the national e-magazine Living in Peru, as the NGO of the Month. We also have been featured in Art People Gallery and Social Documentary Network with photojournalist essays sharing the photos and stories of the children and the life they lead here in Peru. Here in Peru, our project and the work we accomplish has been featured on National TV Willax TV, Channel 41 News TV in Peru, Cable Andino and Expatperu.com, VolunteerMatch.com, The Huaraz Telegraph, as well as several online interviews from Australia to Kenya and a filmed interview with photojournalists from National Geographic. We have been recognized on a Ted Talks X presentation by one of our supporters. We developed, sponsored and produced the First Annual Huaraz Benefit Chess Tournament in August 2010 and the Second Annual Huaraz Benefit Chess Tournament in 2011. Six successful art exhibitions also have raised awareness for the project. Our primary effort is to simply raise awareness for the children and the conditions and situations that they experience everyday. Otherwise their plight is a hidden story that will never be heard or seen. Kindly share our website with your friends, family and co-workers and use your social media influence to help us emerge from obscurity to a relevant issue in the mainstream of people's view. Thank you kindly. |
I do not "strive" for excellence. Why? Because that gives me a back door of excuse to slip out of. "Well, at least I tried". I accept excellence as my normal operating mode now. 2000 kids are depending on my best. Mediocrity, giving it a shot, is the equivalent of failure. I look at the disease of apathy, here and within the international community toward these children and I am driven to redouble my efforts. I will not endure the emotional pain of having to tell another child, "Sorry, the help didn't come." ~~ Jim Killon 2015
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Changes for New Hope c/o Serpost Ancash, Huaraz, Peru |