Welcome to the Advocates' Peru Tour website.

Here you can keep up to date with the activities of our group of advocates as we travel to Peru from the 5th to the 16th of February 2008 to see the work of Compassion.
Advocates are sponsors with a heart for our ministry who volunteer some of their time on an ongoing basis to promote Compassion in their churches and within their spheres of influence.

The team will spend time meeting staff and children in projects, visiting the homes of Compassion sponsored children, seeing how the country office operates and meeting formerly sponsored children. We will try to update the site each day whilst we are in Peru and we hope you find it interesting. Enjoy!


DAILY ITINERARY

Below is the itinerary of the group whilst in Peru:
5th February
Group travels to Peru today, arriving at Lima airport in the evening.

6th February
Visit to the Compassion office and meet with staff.

7th February
Visit to Child Survival Programme at project PE-248.


Visit with the Compassion assisted children in their homes.

8th February
Fun Day with sponsored children of advocates on the tour


Dinner with formerly sponsored children

9th February
Visit to project PE-444


Sightseeing in Lima

10th February
Worship at a Peruvian church connected to a Compassion project, where some Compassion students will be graduating.

Fly to Chiclayo

11th February
Visit to a rural project in Chiclayo

Sightseeing in Chiclayo

12th February
Visit to project PE-339

Visit with Compassion assisted children in their homes.

Fly back to Lima

13th February
Visit to project PE-123


Dinner with Leadership Development Students

14th February
Shopping at local markets

Debrief

Depart from Lima Airport

15th February
Flying home

16th February
Arrive home




Wednesday, 13 February 2008

Back in Lima


Just to let you all know that we are back safely in Lima. We arrived back at our original hotel, tired and sweaty at around 1.30am after a late flight from Chiclayo.

Another project visit, our last one, lies ahead of us today. We are all so tired from the travelling in the heat and yet buoyed up by each other. We have all been so close, strangers a week ago, and now we know each other so well. We have shared so many incredible experiences already and, while we all miss our homes and our families, in some ways we feel like there is so much more we want to be a part of here. Or is this just me wanting to know more about these beautiful people and being more involved in the blessed work here?

The whole Compassion team, both local and from home, have been outstanding and all encouragement must go to them for their organisational skills and the professionalism and understanding they demonstrate daily.

God bless you all.

Alastair.
P.S. Caz - it´s metres!

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