"If you want to change the world, if you want to change your community, first you have to start with me." These are the words of Cindi, one of the inspirational LDP students we met last night over dinner. Cindi is studying to be an Educational Psychologist and wants to establish why some children can´t learn and try to address that. She also wants to help "...teach the teachers..." to try and develop change from within the educational system here. Cindi, like the others with their own visions for the future and their desires to improve the lives of others, was a real encouragement to us.
Here were five students who were released from the chains of poverty through Compassion´s child development sponsorship program (CDSP), and then excelled through into this relatively new programme. They were children who had no hope, they were changed by God´s love through being sponsored as children and now, I have no doubt, that they will achieve their dreams because God has had His hand in all of this. This re-affirms our responsibilities as sponsors of young children - these little seeds become buds and these bloom to become beautiful flowers.
These students are Peru´s future.
LDP is Compassion´s Leadership Development Programme where students (who were once sponsored children) have been able to go on to college and university and are sponsored through their higher education.
Yesterday also saw the last project visit - Maranatha PE123. Too much happened here to record it all on this blog, but ask those who were there. Ask about the vocational development, the hairdressing, the cookery, the vegetables, the screen printing... And ask about the banquet we were treated to where the people of the project stayed up ALL NIGHT preparing our lunch...
But when you ask a question of us Advocates who have been here, be prepared for a long answer as there is just so much to tell. But once again I say it, overriding every other detail of this trip has been the amazing provision of God´s love to these people and their willingness to pass it on.
Students from left: Leyder, Jeremi, Daisy, Melissa and Cindi.
Alastair.
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