Seeds of Hope

Seeds of Hope has been going about six months and has been set up by four people who used to work in a similar charity. The purpose of the charity is help the poorest children in Peru´s society by providing them with support in various ways, including
- Providing educational support in the form of a school structure for those children who can not afford to go to school, to a place to study and supply of school materials such as pens, pencils, paper, text books and professional teacher support
- Providing emotional support in that the teachers and directors of the charity are permanent members of the team and are a prominent feature in the children´s childhood, including working with the parents and helping them to learn vocational skills if necessary
- Teaching social skills and the fundamentals to play an active and successful part in society
- Providing clothes, shoes and balanced diet
- Teaching personal hygiene
- Providing medical assistence, health and growth check-ups
- Providing support to the families, legal assistence and working for the rights of the children

The main activity Seeds provide is education and although education is ´free´ in Peru, some families can not afford to send their kids to school. It costs approximately $25 per month, per child to pay for the books, materials and food to send a child to school and many families have large families, so simply can´t afford it, or the child is needed at home to help with the family, the farm or simply work to contribute to the family income. Seeds tries to take this burden off some of the poorest families and so gives hope and opportunity to those that need it most.

At the moment Seeds is only in Huaraz and limited to a maximum of 25 children due to the cost and the amount of space they have available - they simply can´t fit any more kids in! For more information, visit Seeds here. The site is being worked on at the moment, but it will give you a better idea of the charity.

I´ll also post some more photos of the kids and their work over the next few days (Friday is film day, so you´ll have to wait until next week, when the kids are back in the school).