It has been an extremely busy week for me and the Casa Hogar del Sol team. The Loki volunteers have now increased their visits to twice a week (Tuesday and Thursday) to help us to move the bricks to Cuylandia as quickly as possible. We have worked hard to move more than 1100 bricks this week to the new land and the wall is gradually going up.

This week Loki have donated sugar and rice to one of our partner schools in Pachar and a further 250 soles towards the truck hire. A big thank you once again to everyone at Loki for their continued support.

The children at Paucarbamba enjoyed their first English class on Thursday with me. They each received an exercise book and wrote down their names and the teachers name together with the word English and they remembered the numbers and the way to say “What is your name?”

which was taught to them last week. They loved playing word games outside with their new ball and were sad when the class had to end.

Paul and I took Lourdes to Cusco for her first trip to look for ways of improving her life, including possibilities for wheel chairs, work and education opportunities and a possible new home.

We have been to visit the directors of schools in Pachar, Chilca, Patacancha, Phiry and Ollantaytambo who have all signed contracts to confirm that we can use their schools as locations for the upcoming dental campaign.

Watch this space!