Dear Friends,

Time has passed so quickly! HOTC has entered our final 3 months of project implementation and our permanent presence in the native village of Saint Rose of Huacaria in the southeastern Peruvian Amazon. Our advances are many. Our experiences and learning of how to help our fellow man in context to their cultural and environmental needs are vast. Our lives and the lives of these children and their families have been forever changed for the better.

Our Accomplishments: Equal access to clean, secure water for the village, sturdy stone utility sinks with underground gray water drains, hygiene center/bathrooms for the village schoolhouse, health and hygiene education for children and mothers, technical training for the village water committee and secondary and university scholarships. All of these within context to the cultural and environmental needs of the people, and all made possible by your generosity.

(Left) Clorinda enjoys a drink of water from the tap. (Center and Right) The kids love bathing with the auxiliary tap installed at each utility sink.

We are in our last phase of construction with the hygiene center/bathrooms at the village schoolhouse. Construction has been advancing at a steady pace and this hygiene center is now nearly completed. The structure is made entirely of stone, and the septic system is designed to work in harmony within the natural rainforest environment. There are no working septic systems in the region and this installation will serve as a model for other communities to duplicate.

Peru based Sanitary Engineer Moises Mera (left) explaining the construction of our septic system with members of the water committee on his recent visit to the village.

HOTC continues our successful health and hygiene educational programming with mothers and children. Artist Carole Galand of Toronto, Canada has joined our team and works with the children and mothers evolving health and well being through art and ceremony. Our health director/educator Maria Luisa Morales continues teaching prevention 18 days per month in the community.

(Left) Carole and Marta discuss her painting. The artwork of the children features positive health messages such as --wash your hands and dispose of your organic and non organic trash. The messages are in three languages; Matsigenka, Wachipaeri and Quechua. The artwork, painted on wood will be placed around the village. (Right) Mateo and Rene proudly show us their artwork. The kids absolutely love these classes!

YOU MAKE THE DIFFERENCE!

As you help one child in Huacaria you collectively help all children. HOTC asks for your immediate help to complete our indigenous health pilot programming for children and families in this environmentally rich and important region of our world. HOTC is the first to bring culturally and environmentally appropriate integrated health and hygiene programs to a native community in the Manu Rain Forest. We are in need of an immediate $100,000 for us to continue our health programming in Huacaria. We now serve as a model to help other native villages in the Manu Rain Forest and throughout the region.

Join us in our efforts to make a difference in the lives of these children by making your donation today.

No donation is too small and all donations make an absolute DIFFERENCE!

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Blessings and continued prosperity to you all,

Nancy Santullo
Executive Director
House of the Children

As we help one child, we help all children.