Greetings from the town of Casma, where I am baking in a computer room in the northern desert of Peru. I'm here for a month, sharing a "mission experience" with 20 Columbian seminarians and Lay missionaries.
 
Thank you all, once again, for your superb financial help at the end of last year. In total, I managed to raise just under ten thousand pounds for our development work in the village of Vista al Mar, in the 2007 Pisco Earthquake zone.
 
Last month I spent about half the money and took the donated items down with me to give to the people. One nice twist to this tale is that I had breakfast in the main square of Pisco (still open on two sides pending reconstruction), and saw that the locals had set up a reception centre for their own donations to the Haiti earthquake victims.
 
I spent the cash on a roundabout and three see-saws, paint for the swings, materials and fresh accessories for the leather-goods cooperative, schoolbooks for all pupils for the new academic year (starting in March), medical aid for two "special needs" children, "kiddie sweet packs" for all the children and a food hamper for each family

Family Food Hampers

'Kiddie Sweet Packs'

Roundabout

Renovated swings

See-Saw

One of the special needs children

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