Monday 2nd August 2010

A lot has been going on in the world of Casa Hogar del Sol in Peru over the past week. Last Thursday we had a further 5 volunteers visit us from Loki Cusco and we managed to move the last 500 bricks from the Paucarbamba community. We now have the first group of 19 families which will be receiving guinea pigs and training from the Cuylandia centre (due to start on Saturday August 14th). The community members nnw have enough bricks to complete the perimerter wall and the building of the actual training centre will start tomorrow tomorrow.

The head builder has estimated that it will take one week for the workers to complete the building so we are estimating 2 weeks!

3000 more bricks and building material need to be bought to build the training centre and George and Kathy from Desana Giving http://www.desanagiving.org/  have kindly offered to donate these. A big thank you to Desana Giving goes out from the Casa Hogar del Sol Peru team and the Paucarbamba community members.

The 10 day dental campaign has started in partnership with Odontologos Fronteras and Desana Giving.and the  17 volunteer dentists have so far treated about 500 patients.  All of the dentists are sleeping and eating in the (3 bedroom) volunteer house in Paucarbamba and travelling to community schools each morning to work 8 hour non-stop days!

A volunteer Australian Podiatrist (David) was found at Hearts Café and has joined the dental campaign this week. He has been measuring up for shoes which are going to be distributed during the Christmas chocolatada campaign with Desana Giving.

A big thank you to everyone for their big help this week!