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Manchay Oasis Care Center

Manchay, Peru

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.