Hot meals and warm clothes

This fall as we prepare for the Chocolatada (get excited for Papa Noel and hot cocoa!), we continue to support our community with hot meals and warm clothes!

Washi is happy to report that our Warm Clothing for the month of August was successfully delivered to the communities of Cuenca Pampallacta and Phiry - both in the sacred valley. As we are facing lowest temperatures of the year, local mothers and families helped us to deliver to children who are in desperate need of warm clothes. This month we served 9- children! 

On the restaurant side of things, Miss Bertha and Gladys are continuing to do an incredible job, cooking, serving the delicious meals we are providing for the kids and families. 

Our children, cooks and Ccorao community members sends their gratitude and Love to you all for all service you do for mankind.

Clean Water Continues to Flow!

I am so happy to report that our Clean Water in the sectors of MUYU CCOCHA WATO for 15 native families. Was done amazingly successful and we have completed, even so it was very challenging, because of the Andes geography and the long distance between families, very important to know is that all the homes are made with stones and straw roofs as we reach families in the high valleys, it is very cold at above 14,500 feet, definably living like the ancient ways, there so many families to install water. They all lives there forgotten. All of them with no access to water and electricity, except the ones that we have served until now, they are extremely happy and with clean Water.

As a transportation vehicles and people to carry all the equipment. walk 2-3hours and installation the 15 families helped us in all this process for installing.

Very important to know is that between families they live 1 or 2 kilometers apart, that means you have to hike to all of them, family members and beneficiaries have accompanied us to reach our full 4-day goal and make sure these forgotten families have access to the most important needs. (Clean water).

Also, these families have 3 to 5 children and they have to walk 6 hours (round trip) to school from their communities they don’t have access road.

Thank you for supporting POTH so we can continue to do this incredible work!! 

Little bellies, big smiles

Our restaurant is at the center of our missions and continues to feed over 100 children every single day. We are so grateful for our cooks and all that they do to make this mission possible. Check out some photos of our cooks, their delicious meals, and the children we serve!

Children from the local school head to our restaurant every day during their lunch break for nutritious and delicious meals made fresh!

Our favorite chefs!

Prepping for a day full of cooking!

The sweetest of smiles!

Clean Drinking Water for Ten Families

Earlier this year, POTH invested in a project to bring potable water into the homes of ten families in the community of Ccahuan. The homes in this region do not have plumbing, and so residents regularly walk an hour each way to get fresh water from a local spring. The goal of this project was to install water systems so that the residents in this community could receive water right in their homes. This system can help alleviate chronic diarrhea and illness due to water borne bacteria and parasites by providing filtered water to residents. It also aims to improve the quality of life with the reduction of time spent obtaining water daily.

This first installation in ten homes in Ccahuan was a pilot project, and we are happy to report that it was successful! In May of this year we received a report from Washi sharing the wonderful news that ten clean water systems had been effectively installed.

Here is a recent note from Washi sharing this update:

Last Wednesday I travel to the community to see how the systems are working an my good news to you is that all of them are working perfect, and the engineer has made some little changes to get the families more of the clean water, they were all so happy. Thank you again for all of your hard work on this to all members. The families are basically crying because this is an amazing project for them to have clean water on their homes, why to wait so long for all our dreams to become true, especially our children, families and everyone in the Andes who really needs us in this important project. You all that we are changing the lifes of many families in the Andes.
Love and gratitude from Peru.