Four brothers in their new home in Callao - Photo: SOS Archives
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The number of SOS Children's Villages in Peru has risen to eight with the new SOS Children's Village Callao in the capital of Lima. In addition, there are 19 other educational, training and social facilities. Thirty years after the first Peruvian SOS Children's Village near Lima was opened, the need for facilities caring for abandoned and neglected children has remained dire.
Callao is an area of poverty and high unemployment where most are marked by frustration and every-day contact with violence, and where many women have to raise their children on their own. The difficult living conditions result in numerous children being abandoned or insufficiently cared for by their parents, due to financial or social difficulties.
The new SOS Children's Village offers a home to 108 children, and of the SOS Social Centre, up to 120 children can be cared for all day long while their parents/mothers work. The centre also offers a series of further training courses for adults as well as health care, which is provided for by a paediatrician and a dentist.