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




Tuesday, 12 February 2008

A day of contrasts


We are just about to head back to Lima in the next few minutes, just time for a quick blog.
Today was another amazing day. A day of contrasts in many ways, different home situations again to anything we had seen before. Inspiring, though, and incredibly uplifting and humbling in a profound way. Each heart was touched in a different way by this project. The welcome was powerful, the people were warm and humble and very generous. So many beautiful people with beautiful smiling faces, the people of Peru are wonderfully welcoming.
Chiclayo was a beautiful experience and the settings of the two projects we experienced here were totally different to the city projects. It is a shame in some ways to be leaving it behind.
Pray for our next few days back in Lima, we still have so many challenges ahead of us.
Alastair.

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