We literally saved a school with your help.

"Jacked up" school needs help

Cerrillo is a very rural, one street town where generations live off the land. The field worker’s make about $2 a day. Kids begin working at a very young age along with their family. They have one teacher for the single class school for all ages. The school was broken and needed our help to prevent closing. Our Live Simply 4 Peru family joined forces helping with a Feeding Center along with adding additional teaching power for basics in reading, writing, English, computers and sharing the love of Christ.

Live Simply After School Feeding Center

This program is geared to single Mom’s families and children who live in extreme poverty. Every child in the project lives in very challenging situations. We feed these kids lunch, have Bible time devotion, we do arts and craft but we also do very basic “need things” such as hair washing, teeth brushing, hand washing, shoe shining, we provide haircuts and school supplies. We simply share the LOVE of family and purpose. For many of our children, this will be the only warm meal of the day.  

Single Mom Love

Our Single Mom Project allows our Mom's to provide for their children keeping the family unit at home and together. We aim to train and offer practical life skills for these Mom's to lead independent lives and support their families. Sadly the government announced, our beloved Cerrillo School is closing it’s doors. On the positive side, the teachers in Peru are receiving a well earned and deserved pay raise. Unfortunately, this has resulted in many school closings in the rural and poor areas. The kids now attend school in nearby Characato. We are fortunate to have our several of our Cerrillo families able to benefit from our single Mom Ministry, kids 3-5 can participate in our Church's El PePe preschool class for free, kids 4-14 can join our Greatest Journey Discipleship Class or simply participate in our Street Ministry in the local Brick Yard.