Dear supporter,
As spring brings warmer weather to Europe and the United Kingdom, Peru’s temperatures finally begin to drop.
After what was an unusually hot summer up until the end of April, that led to schools having to change their timetables as the children couldn’t cope with the heat, swarms of mosquitos, summer viruses along with water shortages up in Mancora and the surrounding villages, the community and staff are relieved cooler days are setting in and life feels a bit easier again.
Despite the heat, our ever dedicated Mama Cocha Outreach therapy team have been busy delivering in home Physiotherapy and Speech therapy to our new patients and, already enrolled families.
Our youngest new patient is just 2 years old and has psychomotor delay that is stopping her from walking unaided. The team, as with all new cases, are providing service with a smile and are excited to see her progress already.
As well as therapy, we have been initiating some new projects including Mamas yoga mornings to provide a safe space for our amazing Mamas to have some much needed time to themselves, learn how to breathe to reduce anxiety and stress and remember to laugh! Laughter can feel difficult when life is full of chores and caring for others so this release of emotions is so important.
Our family volunteer programme for 2025 is already full! A lovely team of 3 families will be joining me and my family, to go on a 2 or 4 week adventure in July next year!!
We will be building bathrooms for families who have no access to toilet facilities in their homes and fund raising to sponsor start up kits for our new intiative, a virtual shop!
So many of our Mamas have incredible talents but are unable to make the most of them due to their circumstances.
More news to come as we plan for the launch of an online shop for our Mamas to sell their hand made goods and become finnacially independant!
Claudia, our long term Physiotherapist, is having a baby! She is leaving this month for maternity leave, we couldn’t be happier for her!
We thank you all as always for your belief and ongoing support of our work. We wouldn’t be here without you!
Love and peace from myself and the ever growing Kiya family!
Suzy Butler
Founder & CEO
