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Summer Fellowship
Holy Cross – Peru
Site Address:
Jr. Los Nogales 400, Urb. Canto Bello, San Juan de Lurigancho
Lima
,
Peru
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Location Details
Description
Our site is the mission of the Congregation of Santa Cruz (Holy Cross) in Peru. Our mission area is located in Canto Grande, a poor area of Lima. The Congregation attends to the service of the parish in the areas of health, education, disabled children and support for the most vulnerable families. Our parish has 260,000 inhabitants, and it is the largest parish in our diocese and in the city of Lima. There are many things to do! We invite you to live this mission experience working primarily in our schools and with children with disabilities. We also serve families from the parish and attend to the health of families from our Polyclinic. We also work for the spiritual well-being of families through our Family Pastoral Institute – INFAM and the Apostolate of the Rosary in the Family.
Student Role
Support for the teacher with children in special education, both at the “”Fe y Alegria N° 25″” school as well as at our service center for disabled children, “”Yancana Huasy””. In “”Yancana Huasy,”” you can go through the different service areas where children receive services (language therapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, production workshop and classrooms). What is needed most is support in the different services provided directly to children and adolescents: occupational, speech, physical and neurological therapy, and visits to the children’s homes. Another possibility may be teaching English classes at school. Sometimes, we need assistance with administrative tasks in the office. There are also opportunities to serve in the Clinica Hermano Andres.
Work Schedule
Service takes place from Monday to Friday 8 hours a day: the mornings from 8 am to 12 noon (4 hours) and the afternoon from 2 to 5:30 pm (3 hours and a half).
Orientation
When the students arrive in Peru, they have a meeting with the person responsible for the students, they develop a schedule together and visit the mission area. Students are introduced to the places where they are going to work and the work schedule and community life are organized accordingly.
Housing Information
Male students can live in the house of formation of the Congregation of Santa Cruz. Requirements: Be responsible and respectful., Have a community spirit, Respect house schedules Openness to share and learn from another culture.
Student Preferences
Students must be responsible, committed, and have an availability and willingness to serve others. The student must have a spirit of service, of adapting, welcoming and learning from the reality of the new culture of mission. Above all, availability and spiritual strength to discover the presence and face of God in the mission. The student will live in a religious community where we have times for prayer, meals and celebration. Students will have the opportunity to learn about the diversity of services we provide in the mission of Peru.
Start And End Dates
Eight consecutive weeks between May 17 and July 20, 2026.