An all-in-one project aimed at
promoting health, education, social interaction, economic development,
and the environment in Peru. Project Hope calls for the transformation
of an entire area comprised of 7 communities and close to 10,000
inhabitants, many of whom live in cardboard and straw dwellings
with no running water or sewage, and surrounding a large trash
dump.
Project Hope plans to transform
a trash dump into a recreational park, build a composting center
for the trash to provide a source of valuable income to the
communities, install latrines, bring water to those who don’t
have it accessible, implement a housing program to replace all
cardboard houses with solid wood, educate all families on caring
for their health and the environment, and promote education
as means to help break the poverty cycle.
Imposing trash dump at
Project Hope
Communities surrounding
trash dump
The
Plan: Transform waste into compost
Recreational Park to replace trash dump
Water
delivery
at Project Hope
Water
storage drum
at Project Hope
Kids at Project Hope
Mission team members with new
friends at Project Hope
Virtual library
recently dedicated at Project Hope
Preschool built
by our Peru Mission at Project Hope
Maria's house.
She has 7 dependents, one of them severely disabled
Maria's house
now, thanks to Cokesbury and Pineview UMC team members
Another house
we hope to replace soon
"It
is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man
can sincerely
try to help another without helping himself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
