Imagine spending your life in an orphanage, and at age 18, being put on your own, without direction or family support. When many students graduate from the Puericultorio Perez Aranibar (PPA), a children's home in Lima, they leave without any assurance of obtaining a higher education or succeeding on their own.
Your sponsorship can help meet the special needs of these vulnerable young adults... a safety net, and assurance (s)he will have expanded job prospects and a brighter future. The cost is so small, but the potential is so great when you invest in the higher education of a Peruvian student.
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Eligible Students Eager for Sponsors: High-potential students who express a specific area of study are identified for participation in this program.
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Our Development Partnership: Global Volunteers has assisted the PPA since 2004 to provide classrooms, books, school materials, food, a safe place to sleep, instructional assistance and care to the children of Lima, Peru and surrounding neighborhoods. But, when the children become adults, government support ends.
Here's where your dollars and your compassion can make a real difference. Your contribution to the Peru Scholarship Fund helps ensure that these high potential students can attend a local institute and expand their employment possibilities. You become a prominent part of the growing, long-term success of these students' lives. Your commitment is less than $10 a week, and is fully tax-deductible. Read an update on our first three sponsored students. Here's How it Works: Each year, for the cost of just one small take-out pizza per week, or a monthly dinner for two, you can provide the tuition and educational materials for a promising young adult from the PPA. Your support each year enables these students to complete their education. Would you enjoy supporting young adults this way? When you complete your sponsorship application, we'll send you background information about the sponsored student, and update you on news and events of Global Volunteers work in Peru. And, by continuing your sponsorship each year, you can witness the progress of these promising young adults and the developments in the host community.
Turn Your Spare Change into a Lifeline: Use a portion of your discretionary resources to make a dramatic difference in the life of a young adult, and help us extend educational opportunities to needy students. And, we invite you to join a service program and witness first hand the wonders of people-to-people service. Now in our third decade of service worldwide, Global Volunteers provides you a direct way to keep the world's children in your heart. A sponsorship can be a meaningful project for your classroom, church group or community organization. You might also consider a sponsorship as a remembrance for birthdays or holidays, or in honor of landmark life occasions. Do you have additional questions? Please call us at (800) 487-1074.