Dear Donors:
On behalf of the children from Anita Goulden Home in Piura, Peru we express our deep gratitude for your generous donations.
We have children suffering cerebral palsy on different degrees who came from homes with extreme poverty from different places in Piura, a province in the north of Peru.
Because of your support our home is able to provide them a safe place to live, different therapy treatments – oral/facial, speech, occupational – under the care of nurse technicians, and constant medical supervision.
All but three of the children are not able to walk and some can move only with great difficulty. Angelito, the smallest one, also suffers from asthma and other respiratory conditions that often send him to the hospital. Although the children can’t talk, they can be very sensitive and aware of what is going on around them, smiling when they are happy or crying when they are sad or in pain. Milagros, a girl who is going to turn 15 years old soon, is very anxious awaiting to have her sweet 15th birthday party.
During the summer season, we take them to the ocean and to the recreational centers to enjoy picnics. They also made visits to a horse farm where all of them were able to enjoy the horse riding with the help of our personnel.
Two of them, Henry (14 years old) and Pedro (11 years old) are able to now attend “Paul Harris School” for disabled children. Henry seems to have a brain tumor and goes to school in his wheel chair. Pedro is having an outstanding participation in the Special Olympic Games for Disabled Children, which allowed him, just recently, to win a gold and a silver medal in “shot putt” and ”track” respectively at the local level, and two gold medals for the same categories at regional level.
These victories could seem small to some people but are great achievements to our children, and to the Anita Goulden Home. None of these could have happened without your generous giving.
Thank you again for being an important part of the lives of our Anita Goulden Home children!
Sincerely,
Anita Mollet
Advisor