I have a very dear friend, a Vincentian Priest, Father Alfonso Berrade, head of a major church in Lima, whom I see every year and was the head of the church that was destroyed in the 2007 earthquake, where 200 of their parishioners perished.
I believe they are still having a hard time rebuilding that Church and we did a lot of fundraising for soup kitchens and small business loans, to aid his parishioners at the time. I was there last year to see rebuilding efforts, and there was still much need....and enormous thankfulness for the help they’ve received from all over the world. (Just FYI, we presented a poster at 2008 American Society on Aging Conference as part of our efforts to document the resiliency of older adults-- couldn’t help add this, for our ‘aging connection’. As a result of this research project with UNCC’s School of Gerontology, there have been a couple of articles published in aging journals also.)
And another dear friend (Oscar Bravo) is the Latin America Representative in Peru, for an affiliate of the World Council of Churches called Mision Urbana y Rural (MUR); Oscar is working extensively with the elderly and disabled in Peru and am sure he would have some good ideas for you.
And then she (Joan) went and e-mailed these and others for me! You'll see the results.
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