Looking Ahead to 2026: Hope, Challenge, and a Call for Support!
To all our wonderful supporters,
As we come to the end of 2025, we reflect on this year past and find ourselves holding both hope and hardship.
This year has opened the door to new possibilities and new journeys for our team and each of our patients who now have access to professional equipment and a safe space to receive therapy at the new Mama Cocha centre.
We are seeing numerous individual advancements we never expected to see. For example, watching little Liam taking first steps and speaking first words despite a medical diagnostic that implied this may never happen, has filled our hearts!
We are beginning the development of a new therapeutic organization and working to ensure that more children can access holistic, relational therapeutic support through the Mama Cocha Centre, and starting to shape our future in a way that ensures our community can benefit for years to come.
These steps reflect our continued commitment to healing, connection, and long-term impact.
At the same time, we want to be honest with our community. The past few years have been exceptionally challenging! We went from a 5 man/woman team pre COVID, to a 1 woman team relying on volunteers and Trustees to help fill in the gaps and working long hours to ensure the future of this heart felt organization.
The dedication of those who stayed on to help after the pandemic despite low or no pay, has been amazing, BUT, it has meant we are lacking in man power and this year has brought moments of sadness and loss as despite our dedication and the clear need for our work, we are currently facing a significant difficulty: we do not yet have enough funding secured to see the coming year through. To top it off, the unexpected loss of a sponsor has left us in a difficult position and we need to fund raise £13,000 by June 2026 to give us time to re arrange, seek a new sponsor, grant etc.
We are asking our supporters, partners, and wider community to stand with us, not only through financial support, but also through ideas, connections, and creative ways of fundraising or collaborating. Every suggestion, introduction, and shared opportunity helps us move forward. And we must move forward for the sake of the 77 individuals who rely on our services in Mancora and the many more still waiting for our help!
Your belief in our work has carried us this far. With your continued support, we can protect what has been built, sustain our services for our children and families, and move into the future with resilience and care.
Thank you for being part of our journey and together, we hope to move into 2026 united, ready and strong!
So, as our little Kiya family in Peru celebrate Christmas together today and receive the gifts we have sent them and enjoy a special meal thanks to the generosity of those who contributed to the Christmas auction which raised us almost £900, we remember to enjoy the moments as well as consider the future, for realistically, we cannot predict what is to come, but we can sure try and create the path we want to be following!
From my family and I, my wonderful team and their family’s, we wish you all a love filled Christmas, we hope that you can all take pleasure in the moments spent with loved ones and find time to rest and celebrate in good measure!
¡FELIZ NAVIDAD Y PROSPERO AÑO NUEVO A TODOS!
Love and peace,
Suzy xx
