Peru
Our care center, in the desert town of Manchay, is a large facility used to provide care during the day for children of extremely poor, usually single, working mothers. The Manchay Oasis Center gives young children a safe place to play, nutritious meals, basic health care, early childhood education, and loving care. School-age children receive homework assistance, lunch, Bible study, and counseling. The “Moms Helping Moms” program has reached out to this community with vocational training, discipleship classes, parenting classes and skills training.
The Friends of Peru ministry located in the mountainous region of Andahuaylas joined Kids Alive in 2009, helping us expand our care to rescue children in this rural area in Peru. Twenty children live in the children’s home with their house parents. An effective community outreach program for poor mothers is providing support and vocational training. Currently a new children’s home is being built on the outskirts of the town in order to expand this ministry to care for more vulnerable children.
Ministry SitesJuniper Tree Children's Home, Pachacamac |
MissionariesMike and Diane Fietje |

Support Juniper Tree Children's Home, Pachacamac
Juniper Tree Children's Home, Pachacamac
The Lima Children’s Home began in December 1992 in the La Molina district to care for orphaned, abused and abandoned children. The Home officially moved to the district of Pachacamac, on the outskirts of Lima in March of 2010.
The new Juniper Tree Children’s Home in Pachacamac currently has about 30 children in five family homes where their physical, emotional, educational and spiritual needs can be met while preparing them to be strong Christians and upstanding citizens in their communities. Eventually six family homes will each house eight children and their house parents. Each home has its own kitchen, dining room, living room, and outside play area. The older boys and their house parents moved from Lima into the first family unit in Pachacamac in March of 2009 and were joined by the other children from the Lima Home a year later. The new space will allow us to begin rescuing additional children and bringing them into the home. The older boys will eventually move to their own property nearby when funds become available.
A number of our graduates, grateful for the opportunities they’ve been given, have a strong desire to work with children at risk in the future.

Support Manchay Care Center
Manchay Care Center
The Manchay Oasis Center was started in 2003 to help the many desperately poor mothers who felt forced to abandon their children at the Lima Children’s Home. Manchay is a desert town of over 100,000 people on the outskirts of Lima where many live in one- or two-room shacks with dirt floors but without electricity or running water. The children there are mostly victims of extreme poverty, malnutrition and abuse combined with a lack of positive male role models.
There are almost 90 children registered at the Oasis Center. Half of these come all day for our preschool program and receive two meals a day, Bible lessons and early childhood education. The others come either before or after school for our Homework Club and receive one meal, Bible lessons, help with homework and counselling. We also provide all the children with basic health care. In 2008 Kids Alive started a daily “Moms Helping Moms” program for 19 mothers, expanding the reach of our previous weekly program to mothers of children in our program. Practical work training, discipleship classes, parenting classes and vocational training (jewelry making, sewing, etc...) help these moms to have hope in Jesus Christ and a means to sustain their families.

Support Friends of Peru Children's Home
Friends of Peru Children's Home
Nestled in the Andes mountains, Andahuaylas is one of the poorest cities in Peru. Seventy percent of the population have no access to electricity, running water, or proper sanitation services. Many children cannot attend school and illiteracy rates are high. There are also high rates of infant and maternal mortality, malnutrition, disease, alcoholism and domestic abuse. Even children in stable households often must fend for themselves as parents travel great distances to find work.
In 2009 the Friends of Peru Children’s Home officially became part of Kids Alive. This Home was started in an attempt to help children who were poor, abused, and abandoned or who lived too far out in the mountains to travel to school. The Home now cares for about 20 boys and girls who receive shelter, nutritious food, clothing, education and basic job skill training so they can become self-sufficient. Most important, they learn about God and how they can become His children in a safe and loving environment. The Home also is able to serve over 30 abandoned and abused women daily by providing medical care, education, counselling and skills training to enable them to support their families.

Support Mike and Diane Fietje
Mike and Diane Fietje
Mike and Diane Fietje are field directors and home directors of Kids Alive Peru, having joined the Kids Alive staff in 1998. Growing up as an “MK” (missionary kid), Mike spent most of his youth in Southeast Asia before receiving his B.A. degree in International Ministries from Moody Bible Institute. Diane studied physical and health education at the University of Toronto and attended Heritage Baptist Seminary. Before coming to Peru they lived in Ontario, Canada.
“We know what it is like as a child to lose your father and the importance of having solid Christian loved ones helping you through these tough times, pointing you back to God. We are in this ministry because we believe we can make a difference to a child's future in both heaven and earth.” Mike and Diane Fietje

Support Jon and Elise Chadwick
Jon and Elise Chadwick
Jon and Elise Chadwick joined the Kids Alive staff in December 2008 after serving in Peru with another organization for a year, and now are serving for two years as work team coordinator and child sponsorship coordinator. Jon and Elise are both graduates of Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Jon’s previous background was in social work and Elise’s was in secondary education. Prior to their Peru assignment they lived in Indiana.
Jon and Elise invite you to follow their blog at http://thechadwickchronicles.com/.

Support Shannon Eaton
Shannon Eaton
Shannon Eaton joined the Kids Alive staff as the nurse and child sponsorship coordinator in Lima, Peru in September 2006. She comes from Pennsylvania, U.S.A., where she received her B.S.N. degree in 1998 from Carlow College in Pittsburgh.

Support Manchay Families Together
Manchay Families Together
Kids Alive homes in Latin America often have poor widows or abandoned mothers ask for help to care for their children.
In Peru, we've responded with the Manchay Families Together initiative that helps widowed and abandoned moms. Their children receive healthy meals, medical care, education and Christian training through the Manchay Care Center. Currently 20 single mothers come to Kids Alive five days a week to receive job skills training and support so they can start small businesses, and also participate in Bible studies and parenting classes. By participating in the Families Together initiative, the family enjoys a healthly lunch together with the other families.

Support Tyler and Brenda Foss
Tyler and Brenda Foss
Tyler and Brenda Foss joined Kids Alive in 2007 after serving short term during 2005 in Peru when God laid it on their hearts to serve Him there long term. Today,
Brenda has recently become the director of our ministry Moms Helping Moms. She is involved with the different teachers of the program as well as leading the moms in their Bible study. “I love these women and it is great to see first hand how God is working in their lives, I am humbled to be part of this ministry.”
Tyler and Brenda have three daughters Hannah, Sarah and Myah who attend a local school for missionary children. They enjoy playing with their many friends at the children’s home and the Oasis in Manchay.
"Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up." Deuteronomy 6:5-7

Support Jorge and Shay Raygada
Jorge and Shay Raygada
Jorge and Shay Raygada were approved as short-term missionaries to






