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The children of Manchay, one of Peru's largest
slums, are in crisis and need our help today.

The sight of disheveled children, playing in a dirty alley that threads its way through Manchay’s maze of wood and cardboard shacks, reflects the despair and hardship that punctuate life in the slums of Peru.

Perched like a precarious pile of dominoes on the outskirts of the capital city Lima, Manchay is home to many of Peru’s most impoverished children.

Ten year old Maria is one of these children. Maria and her family live in a one-room shack made of scavenged wood and pieces of scrap cardboard. Maria, and so many children just like her in Manchay, have no place to learn the life-skills that will enable them to become something other than poor.

For Brian, a little 5 year old boy, life in Manchay will be brutish and short. Brian is deaf. His parents, despite working themselves to the point of exhaustion, cannot afford to send their son to a school for the deaf in the capital city. Without help, Brian’s chances of surviving childhood are next to none. And he is not alone. There are many more children in Manchay with physical or developmental disabilities who are suffering because no help is available.

Through your compassion and generosity, Manchay can become a place of hope, rather than despair and sorrow.

Here is how your gift of $50, $75, $100 or more today will help save these precious lives…

• Children and teenagers will receive basic life-skills training that will ensure they have the knowledge needed to make healthy personal choices and transform their lives.
• At-risk children, fortunate enough to attend school but with no one to go home to after school, will be able to participate in after-school programs that will keep them safe and provide additional educational and skills-learning opportunities.
• Children with disabilities, like Brian, will receive the specialized care and training they need in order to develop their life-skills.
• Aging and rundown schools, many of which have become unsafe over the years, will be repaired, rebuilt, or renovated, giving children a safe environment in which to learn the skills and knowledge they so desperately need.
• Desks, chairs, blackboards, toilets, washing stations and other much-needed items will be provided.
• Teachers will receive additional training, making them more effective in their efforts to shape young minds and lives.
• Mothers, including teenage moms, will receive skills training that will enable them to improve the health and well-being of their children.
• For infants and toddlers who have been abandoned in the alleys of Manchay, your gift will provide food, care, shelter, and a future!
  

With your gift today, children like Maria and Brian will get the help they so desperately need. Maria and her friends will have a safe place to learn and study, developing the skills that will transform their lives. Brian, and other children just like him, will receive the special training they need.