Las Delicias Shelter
(‘the Project’) Scroll down to read text
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In Peru it is not uncommon for women
to raise 5 or more children., each with a different biological father.
What is also common is for the mother’s latest companion to rape the eldest
daughters, often resulting in pregnancy.
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One expects a reaction from the mother, but not the sort of reaction that is so evident here in Peru. As a result of the rape the mother feels shamed and jealous and abandons her own daughter who is often without the comfort of additonal family members for support and understanding. These abandoned, pregnant, adolescent rape victims (‘adolescents’), often only thirteen or fourteen years old face a dull future. They are without money; support; homes and job prospects. Most worrying of all, they are carrying an unborn baby, who will enter a world where education will not be available to them and their options for a self-sustainable life non-existent. It is not uncommon for such desperate girls to drift into prostitution and drugs; further blighting their lives and potential to contribute to society |
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Our mission: To save as many
of these girls and their unborn children as we can, to prepare them for
and steer them into a richer more productive life than they could have
known without this project.
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To achieve this we must complete the
construction of our facility "Albergue Las Delicias". To date
we own the property, 912 square meters of secondry beach front (approx.
value $4,500), and we must raise another $130,000 to errect the walled
shelter including all its facilities. Heretofore, in nearly forty years
of providing :relief and social development projects, mostly in underdeveloped
countries, we have relied on our own resources; but in the current economic
climate our income stream is inadequate to fund more than the programs
to which we are already committed. So when we recognized the urgent need
to do something to help these desparate girls, and discovered that there
is no facility in the north of Peru where we could send them, we determined
to build our own; and to ask our friends and theirs’ to help us fund the
construction (the operating expenses we will manage on our own).
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So what will happen for these girls when
they come to our shelter:
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They will stay a minimum of 6 months
(depending on the stage of their pregnancy on arrival); a couple of the
best will stay on as resident staff, and as examples for others.
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All will receive:
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Note: We have already been doing some
of the above in our present facilities (including our mothers clubs);
providing medical, dental and psychological care, giving clothes and nurition
to abandoned pregnant adolescents. But since we do not offer a closed
shelter with programs dedicated exclusively to them, they do not stay
with us for very long. And when we find them them again they are usually
on drugs and in the hands of a pimp. In 2002 we took in one such who is
mentally ill, sheltered and provided for her for three months, delivered
the child ourselves; and with her cooperation and that of her mother (who
refused to raise the child), we placed the baby boy in a respectable orphage
– see http://bruceperu.org/july02.html
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To raise the money required to build
the Las Delicias shelter we have divided the construction into four phases.
Below is a discription and the price of each phase, and below that are
the architects drawings and the technical information pertaining to each
phase.
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the phases, with the most basic parts included in Phase 2. The overall cost also includes $1,600.00 for Archectural and engineering supervision. Phase
3
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