Children of the Amazon Update

January 2006

Greetings Supporters of Children of the Amazon:

The air is thick with humidity as they land onto the ground at Iquitos after 3 months absence in the States, criss-crossing the continent multiple times, sharing the message of the street children of Peru.

Children of the Amazon with Glaucio & Shannon Guimaraes and family, returned to Peru the first of December 2005, to continue the work began last year with the orphanage project. The next several months will entail overall land planning for the infrastructure at the 72 acres granted by the Peruvian University. They must determine where the buildings are to be located, where the next transitional home is, the clinic, the church, the soccer field?

Concurrent with the building plan is the preparation for the businesses. One farm is in place on one acre of land, with another in the planning. Then there’s the chicken coup; not to mention setting up purchasers of the product and the workers for each endeavor. Never an end of things to do! But, that is a good problem to have.

Everyone is quite busy in these early stages of developing the village for the street children. We at Global Support will keep you informed at the various stages. We are looking forward to the progression of accomplishments. Several building teams are already scheduled to arrive throughout Jan-April 2006.

Global Support is sending a “Give Back” team to Peru in August. Let us know if you or anyone you know is interested, and contact us. Information regarding this trip will be forthcoming.