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MySmallHelp Peru believes
that all children should
have their basic human
rights and believes
that giving children
their right to education
and basic health care
is the key to a brighter
future. MySmallHelp
is looking for sponsors
to pay towards providing
access to education
and health care to disabled
children and children
living in extreme poverty
that have not previously
been to school..
MySmallhelp sponsorship
money is used to enroll
the sponsored children
at school (wherever
possible) and provide
healthcare support and
additional assistance
to the family on a case
by case basis. Sponsorship
money helps cover the
monthly administration
costs of running the
child sponsorship scheme
, the costs of transportation
of the children to and
from school, school
uniforms, books, and
stationary as well as
any other school related
fees and health care
emergencies.
All sponsorship money
is shared between the
children in the project
and is used where it
is most needed. In cases
where there are requests
for part sponsorship
these children already
have a sponsor but they
need more sponsorship
to be secured to ensure
that they continue to
go to school and receive
support from MySmallHelp.
The MySmallHelp sponsored
children benefit from
the support of the MySmallHelp
Peru representatives
in Ollantaytambo and
Trujillo continually
check on the progress
of the children, manage
volunteers that help
the children with their
homework in their homes
and provide extra tuition
to the children. The
MSH Peru representatives
also help with the process
of accessing legal documents
for the sponsored children
(birth certificates,
national identiy cards
and national health
insurance).
MySmallHelp child sponsorship
is the start of an incredible
one-to-one relationship
between you and your
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As
a sponsor:
You will receive the MySmallHelp
Peru free e-newsletter on
a bi annual basis
You will receive a PDF update
on your sponsored child once
a year
You will receive photos, letters
and/or art work from your
sponsored child
If you would like to know
any additional information
about your individual child,
MySmallHelp will endeavour
to answer any questions. MySmallHelp
can also let you know what
your child needs if you would
like to send a birthday or
christmas gift by post.
We will inform the sponsor
if the child they are sponsoring
doesn´t need further
sponsorship after the first
year (if the family situation
has improved) and will request
if they would like to move
their sponsorship over to
another child in year 2 if
this is the case.
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| LURDES |
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£20 (part sponsor)
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Lurdes is a three year old girl from the town of Yanahaura. Lurdes was born with Down Syndrome, which causes speech and motor learning impairments. Her father left her mother when Lurdes was born because the situation overwhelmed him. Her mother works tirelessly at the local clinic, dividing her hours between work and caring for Lurdes. Lurdes entertains patients at the clinic while her mom is working with her precious smiles and silly antics. Lurdes would benefit from regular visits from a speech therapist and occupational therapist to learn skills during a time in her life where retention of such skills are greatest.
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MySmallHelp
Peru is looking for a sponsor
for LURDES
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A donation of £20 a month will cover the cost of food, accomodation, books, uniforms and education for a child. We will be pleased to keep you updated with photographs and details on the progress of your sponsored child. We can also provide a direct link for communication between you and your sponsored child. We can even arrange for you to visit your sponsored child if you wish.
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| SAYURI |
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£20 (part sponsor)
a month |
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General
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Sayuri is a nine year old girl who suffers from cerebral palsy. She lives with her parents, Rose and Clement, and her 13 year old half-brother. Sayuri’s development was always slow for her age; she learned to walk at three years old and couldn’t hold her head up without assistance until the age of two. Since the age of three she has been receiving physical therapy treatment and has learned to walk, although with some difficulty. Her physical therapy is continuing with a professional in the Arco Iris school, where she also studies. Sayuri and her family live in a one-room accommodation, where they all sleep, eat and cook. Her father is cook, but can’t find work in his profession and works in agriculture and construction. Rosa, her mother, is a housewife and occasionally works in a local hotel. Due to her family’s meager income, Sayuri requires economic support to cover the costs of daily transportation to Urubamba, allowing her to continue her education at Arco Iris.
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MySmallHelp
Peru is looking for a sponsor
for SAYURI
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A donation of £20 a month will cover the cost of food, accomodation, books, uniforms and education for a child. We will be pleased to keep you updated with photographs and details on the progress of your sponsored child. We can also provide a direct link for communication between you and your sponsored child. We can even arrange for you to visit your sponsored child if you wish.
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| LEONEL |
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£20 (part sponsor)
a month |
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Leonel is a six year old boy, happy, active and lively. He lives in a small home with his mother and two sisters. His father left the family and doesn’t visit or support them in any way. The family’s only source of income are the eggs that Leonel’s mother sells in the plaza of Ollantaytambo, which hardly cover health, education, clothing and food for her three children. Leonel has never learned to speak and has a malformation on his right foot. He communicates only with gestures. Medical tests have proven him to be deaf in both ears. He had never been enrolled in school, but last year begun attending the Arco Iris school, located 25 minutes from his home in the town of Urubamba. In December 2011 a Canadian volunter raised money to buy Leonel hearing aids.
He will just be using one to begin with to get used to it and it will only to be used at school at first. The hearing aids are just a small step towards the eventual goal of him being able to communicate like any other child his age, but with his intelligence and energy, we're all sure he can carry the project the rest of the way.
However, in March 2012 the Peruvian government intends for all children with a variety of special needs to be integrated into the regular school system which, without any linguistic skills, Leonel is going to find it very difficult. Therefore he still very much needs our support to access the MSH bus service to continue to travel to the Arco Iris special school in Urubamba.
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MySmallHelp
Peru is looking for a sponsor
for LEONEL
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A donation of £20 a month will cover the cost of food, accomodation, books, uniforms and education for a child. We will be pleased to keep you updated with photographs and details on the progress of your sponsored child. We can also provide a direct link for communication between you and your sponsored child. We can even arrange for you to visit your sponsored child if you wish.
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| Lourdes |
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£20 (part sponsor)
a month |
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Lourdes Juno Mamani is an 18 year old girl who lives in a little village a couple of hours from Cuzco in the Sacred Valley in Peru. It’s a beautiful place to live; rural, natural, tranquil but very very difficult for a young lady in a wheelchair. For the first 18 years of Lourdes’ life she was confined to the small village of Rumira and primarily to her family home. Her parents are both alcoholics, her father has since left the family, she has a sister and three half-brothers and sisters. Lourdes has only a few wishes…. that she can have an education, that she can leave Rumira and that she can earn herself some money. Thanks to a kind donation from Spain last year Lourdes does now have a wheelchair and with the help of My Small Help gets out and about at least twice a week into towns close by that she’d never known in the earlier years of her life. She loves looking her best, playing with make-up, painting her nails and most of all reading. Lourdes is always questioning the My Small Help volunteers about new English words when we see her. Lourdes wants to learn as quickly and as efficiently as possible but the local teachers believe it best that she is taught at home by visiting teachers. The problem is cost, in order for Lourdes to have enough weekly lessons to make progress it costs a lot of money and many teachers are not keen to visit her more than three times a week for a few hours. It’s simply not enough. A fantastic jewellery designer and maker in Cuzco sees Lourdes regularly and has already taught her to work with silver and natural products too. She enjoys making the jewellery and recognises that she can make a living from it, selling at markets, fairs etc. She is currently working with hemp to make organic products for a local Sacred Valley bio-fair. We can help Lourdes with sponsoring her education and home lessons, a laptop which will aid her jewellery design as well as schooling and ideally helping setting up her business so that’s she able to move to more accessible Cuzco sometime in the near future.
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MySmallHelp
Peru is looking for a sponsor
for Lourdes
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A donation of £20 a month will cover the cost of food, accomodation, books, uniforms and education for a child. We will be pleased to keep you updated with photographs and details on the progress of your sponsored child. We can also provide a direct link for communication between you and your sponsored child. We can even arrange for you to visit your sponsored child if you wish.
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