Fighting Poverty in Latin America
January 7, 2022
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Cross Catholic Outreach transforms the lives of the poor in Latin America by supporting local Catholic charitable programs.
Cross Catholic Outreach transforms the lives of the poor in Latin America by supporting local Catholic charitable programs.
The students at the Home Incarnate Word boarding homes in Cotahuasi, Peru, gave us an enthusiastic welcome with lots of music and home-made signs. We were serenaded in the afternoon and later that evening with songs in both Spanish and Quechua – the local indigenous language. Then as we departed with Fr. Jose Paz, the kids ran outside in the rain to wish us a final farewell.
Claudio, one of our project officers, just got back from Peru last week, and apparently it was an unusual trip — unusual because transportation workers went on strike shortly after he arrived in Lima. Public transportation came to a halt, and protesters were hurling rocks at cars, which made it quite nerve-wracking for Claudio to drive from project to project.