We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
Marcel Proust
News
January 2012
.HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012
Gracias a todas las personas que nos ayudan a seguir adelante.
Ingresan dos hermanitas con la Policía por denuncia de los vecinos.
Viene Alicia Josa por dos meses para ayudar en lo que haga falta.
December 2011
FELIZ NAVIDAD
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(con fotos de Elena López y Carmen Echevarría)
More children arrive at the residencial home for children to spend Christmas with us.
We thank our Teresianas friends in Barcelona for their consistently supporting Amantani residential home for children and for now for Christmas with the sales of a calendar
Novotel comes once again to Amantani residential home for children for Christmas and brings along with them lots of presents and the organization of this beautiful party and we are once again invited to this other party at which one drinks hot chocolate in Qori Chaska and we share presents with our youngest kids.
Daniel is very happy as he is leaving us to go to Lima after having waited for so long. He is going with his parents and his brother to spend the best Christmas in he has ever had in his whole life.
We are informed that Alejandra is going to have a family in North America.
We are very grateful for the news and for the photos we have received for Christmas from the ones who have left us.
Clarita and Helen who are ten and eight years old come to visit us from Switzerland and Barcelona. Thanks so much.
November 2011
MIMDES organizes the “First Internacional Congress of Quality of Care in Residental Units”. In the programme there is a Panel of Presentation of “Succesful Experiences of Quality of Care in Residential Units” where three CAR have been invited to give a presentation in which they will explain their own experience. Amantaní is one of them.
*CAR: is the umbrella term for Residential Homes for Children, Care Homes for Children, Respite Care for Children.
Amantaní came third in the Residential Homes for Children competition of Dances which was organized by the INABIF, with the Cholo Qorilazo dance.
Después de diez años logramos ubicar fuera del Cusco a familiares de dos adolescentes nuestras, que no sabían en ambos casos dónde se encontraban su sobrina y su hija.
With Marco’s arrival it is a thousand children taken in Amantaní since it started fourteen years ago. On the following day a three month old baby is also taken in. His mother leaves him at the Ministry. Y al poco llega una bebé recién nacida encontrada en la vía pública y que al cabo de unas horas ingresamos en el Hospital.
Nuestras amigas Siramamys, que nos apoyan siempre con sus mercadillos solidarios, visitan Amantaní.
October 2011
Paola, who arrived at Amantaní when she was a year and a half old with her eight year old sister is turning nine.
PNP takes in children as a temporary protection measure.
Adolfo is leaving us and he is going to Italy with his family, he is so happy. We find out that Omar and Daniel are both going to have parents from Lima.
We want to thank our teresianas friends for their permanent support to Amantaní Residential Home for Children.
September 2011
Luciana is leaving us and she is going to Italy with her parents. She will find hapiness.
August 2011
Alberto’s father appears after his not having seen his son for more than ten years.
Four brothers whose mother is alcoholic arrive at Amantaní.
In August we are counting with the help of many Spanish volunteers.
Wilfred’s parents arrive from Italy and it is for him who has waited for them for so long.
July 2011
Our friends form Ananaw Wasi who have been supporting our children for a long time fix the patio laundry in the family home Casa Blanca because it was needed urgently. Thank so much !!!
Young parents from Lima come for Maria who feels so happy. And SNA inform us that Noel’s parents are arriving from Italy!
Lourdes and Begoña Echevarría who are always supporting Amantaní are coming over for the first time and they are doing Pedagogical Assesment. Aurora is coming over for the seventh time.
Lourdes Sánchez Monge is coming back to do some voluntary work for a long period of time.
June 2011
The first school term is over.
The "Pasa la Voz " comes to one of the workshops in which kids in Amantaní are taught and they bring singer-songwriter Pablo Fernández to give the children a small concert and to teach them how to express themselves.
It is the Father’s Day celebration and our children are performing in the schools
Michael's Belgium family is eventually arriving. He is 34 months old and this is what he wants the most.
Sixteen year old Altair was able to return with his brother after his staying in Amantaní for many years. On his own iniciative he gives the older children a moving talk about his personal experience in Amantaní and about the difficulties of life outside so that they can value and enjoy it and take the most out of their present situation.
May 2011
The number of small children - 0 to 2 years old- entering Amantaní is dropping and yet we do not achieve to deal with all the applications that we get for four year olds and older children wanting to enter.
An anniversary party for those kids turning one to three is organized by the childminders.
Joaquín who was newly born when he arrived is now two years old and four months and he can now go with his mother and his little sister.
Luca's parents arrive, they are an Italian young couple and he is filled with love form the very first moment.
Mother's day is a great celebration in Perú. Some of our children participate in the school performances. Three year olds perform " I am your Little Angel " .
Two brothers- 10 and 8 years old- return to Amantaní after two years. The case, of children who were been put into their own families and who have to return to Amantaní, is repeated.
April 2011
12th of April : International day of " Street Children ".
PNP brings us a two year old girl who was found int the street. And a two months old baby who was left in a hostal of the terrestrial Terminal.
For the tenth year running Javier Echevarría comes to Amantaní to support us and to organize creative activities for the children.
Lupita's parents arrive from Arequipa and everthing from the start is beautiful.`
Pilarcita goes with her mother and she is happy and also she can share and she can give out her joy and her happiness in the way that she knows.
SNA informs us that Michael has been put into a Belgium family and Lucas to an Italian family.
March 2011
The beginning of the school term is delayed because of the heavy rains.
Yusep and Azumi can return with their mother, who has another son at hospital with leukaemia.
The grandmother and the adolescent mother of a NN baby, who came to us when he was eight months old because he was abandoned, turn up and they request the court to put the child into their care.
Miguel Echevarría and Borja are coming to Amantaní for a month and a half.
February 2011
Nicolás, who was brought to us from Puerto Maldonado in April 2010 because his thirteen year old mother handed him over to the court, is now back with his mother because this is what she requested and it was granted to her. They will continue living in the Santa Marta Home because the mother is minor
Beautiful Fátima is very happy to leave and to go with her parents from Italy. And we are informed by the SNA that Mirna's parents are arriving from Italy.
Five brothers whose parents are alcoholic enter the Home, the eldest is eleven and the youngest is two.
January 2011
Last August the police brings us a seven month old baby who has been abandoned at a hospital where he has received medical treatment for two months. . On the following day he is taken to Court and he is ordered to be sent to another Home. He is admitted to hospital again and when he is discharged he is taken into custody because of his delicate condition and then he returns to Amantaní. We do not know who, while he away, gave him the name of Máximo, to him who is tiny. He has left us with no time for good byes and terribly upset for not having known how to help him more. Max, how much we would have wanted him to have waited for his family!
The older kids are going to spend their holidays in Katañiray where the association Almería Solidaria is taking us in.
Three year old Efraín joins in Amantaní with his two brothers who were staying at another home. And also Sol and Ángel's sisters are coming from another home to Amantaní so that the four of them can be together.
On the same night the police brings us two pairs of brothers. Two of them go back with their mother.
Fifteen and fourteen year old Ana and Vero will eventually be able to go and live with their sister who will be backed up from Amantaní.
December 2010
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The kids are in the closing stages of their school year.
The police brings us two little sisters and a baby. They also bring a seven-month-old fat baby boy who was abandoned in front of a home for girls.
Five children can return to their families. Among them there is Andrés, whose mother died in childbirth and has spent his first fifteen months in Amantaní, and who has gone back now with his father and brothers and sisters to their community, at 4,300 feet. Merry Christmas!
Christmas was amongst kids who enjoy everything so much. And on Christmas eve as usual they were all disguised.
Thanks a lot to the parents who bring us such great joy by sending us news and photos of their children! And to all the children who have surprised us coming to visit us this year.
November 2010
The Comisaría de Familia brings us back three brothers who have not been accepted by their nineteen year old mother. And three children with alcoholic parents, two brothers and a three year old girl who returns to Amantaní for the fourth time and whose seven year old brother arrives on the following day. They also bring us two brothers, aged three and one.
The Court orders the admission of an abandoned two month old baby who was in hospital with meningitis and of a baby girl whose 14 year old mother decides to keep her with the support of her family.
Baptism in the Church of San José.
Valentina and Rene leave us very happily with Peruvian families. And the SNA informs us of the arrival of Bernardo´s family which is from Lima.
The International Children's Day, November 20th, this we want to share with you.
October 2010
Julia comes to volunteer for almost three months.
The police brings a baby who was found abandoned in a pot in the Via Express
and another one who was abandoned in the Plaza San Francisco. They also
bring a baby girl who is a few days old whose mother is handicapped and left her in the
hospital, and a three-year-old-boy whose mother suffers from mental health problems.
Aydé is leaving us. She is to live with a family from Sevilla who adopted another child from Amantaní in 1999. The three of them are coming to fetch her. Congratulations!
September 2010
Constantine eventually meets his parents and he happily goes with them to his new home in Lima.
Karla and Lisbeth's parents arrive from Italy and they give a nice farewell party.
August 2010
It is Amantaní's 13th anniversary on August the 8th and we are all celebrating it by attending a small circus which we are organizing in the neighbourhood.
We are counting on the support of a physiotherapist from Lima.
Aracely is allowed to live with her grandparents, who have asked for her custody at
Court. She was separated from her mother when she was incapacitated.
Jeferson leaves us to happily go with his parents to Luxembourg, getting all the love
he needs. Paolo and Pamela also meet their parents, who arrive on the same day, and they will live in Loreto and Arequipa respectively.
Janeth turns 18 years old and she becomes independent.
July 2010
Santiago happily left with his parents who live in Luxemburg. And Frank's parents and brother will arrive soon from Italy.
A twenty-five-day-old baby from Urubamba has been admitted.
We readmit an 8-month old baby and an 18-month old boy who the police had again removed from their mothers due to drunkenness.
June 2010
Amantan&i's collaborator, Sara Serrano, and María Jesús López come over to visit us.
Federico's parents arrive from Malaga and love is huge from the moment they meet. And Sebastian and Jefferson have been assigned.
A baby girl born in a truck on the way to Cusco, and two babies born in the hospital, have been brought to us.
May 2010
Gerard has left with his parents from Barcelona, Carla Marleny with her parents and brother from Italy, and Jacob with his parents and sister from Andorra. Everybody organised a farewell party for them.
We have news of the arrival of Santiago's parents, who live in Luxemburg.
Nicol can return with her mother to Puerto Maldonado after being with us for 4 months.
Mothers' Day in the schools: a big fiesta in Perú. Some of our children take part in the events.
We admit five babies: a child of a mother declared unfit, a baby of an alcoholic mother, a baby of a mentally unstable mother, a Downs Syndrome baby with high-risk complications (child of an abused young Downs Syndrome woman) who is passed on to another centre after 3 days as we're not equipped to care for him. And a baby of an adolescent mother
April 2010
We have redecorated and improved the activity room. Thank you Aurora and Lules.
Three babies have been admitted: one of four months, whose mother, from Puerto Maldonado, can't cope with the responsibility; one from Cusco whose 14-year-old mother is unfit, and an orphan baby girl of three months.
A group of performers from San Francisco came to Amantaní with their Circo de los Sueños to give us a marvellous show which left the children wide-eyed.
Carmen and Gema, together with Carlos and Antonio, from Malaga and Seville, continue giving support to Amantaní. Their latest fundraiser was a crafts stall at an Altrenative Fair. Thank you!
March 2010
Beginning of schools for all the children above three years old.
Beatriz Galán and Sara Fontacaba publish the book Soy padre, dicen ellos , which gathers the experience of 36 well-known fathers. The book sales benefits will go again to the Hogar Amantaní.
Two sisters of 14 and 4 years old have been admitted because their mother is in prison and their father is an alcoholic. And three sisters whose mother died when the River Quitamayo, a tributary of the Vilcanota, broke its banks on 4th March have also come to Amantaní.
And in the last week three baby girls of a few days old have been brought to us.
Nina Bernat, who came to visit us on the 1rst of January, goes on with her commitment of helping the children of Amantaní. Thank you so much for your support!
February 2010
With Milagros and Juan Manuel, 4 and 9 years old, 900 children have been admitted in Hogar Amantaní.
We celebrate a big party for all the children whose first, second and third birthday have been these months.
This month we count with the help of many volunteers. And Aurora comes back.
The students of Centre Jordi of Granollers ( Barcelona ) declare their solidarity and collect money for the children of Amantani.
January 2010
Two babies are admitted. And two children come back after almost a year. One is born from an alcoholic mother, and the other comes from a destructured family to which is returned after a week.
Livia´s parents arrive from Lima , and there is empathy between them from the first moment. Anthony goes, very happy, with his parents.
One again we welcome the visit of Mike Partridge, who continues giving us support and never forget the children from Amantaní. THANK YOU, PAPI MIKE!
Wilder happily meets his parents from Piure, and they leave us with a very nice party. And we receive the news of the arrival of Livia´s parents from Lima , of Valeria´s parents from Belgic and of Rosalinda and Mariela´s parents from Madrid , who have been waiting for them for so long.
Again ZANGOZAKO IKASTOLA organizes a bazaar to raise money for the children of Amantaní, as they have been doing from 2005. Thank you again.
December 2009
The parents of Natividad y María arrive from Italy, - the children await them joyfully. And they have given us the news that the patents of Wilder of Perú, y los de Antony de Bélgica. Cuántas emociones.
Three babies come to spend Christmas in Amantani.
And for the ninth year running Javier Echevarría comes to Cusco to continue supporting Amantaní and to organise activities for the children.
A campaign, "Solidarity Bracelets", is being organised in Malaga and Seville in Spain to support Amantaní. Thanks to all the participants and the children of Maestro Antonio Rodríguez school in San José de La Rinconada, Seville, for their solidarity.
November 2009
Diego goes happily with his parents on the plane to Lima.
Also, Mateo's parents arrive from Barcelona to give him the exclusive love that he so hoped for.
On The International Day for Children we emphasise solidarity with children everywhere. Click the photo.
October 2009
In one week the police bring 4 babies to the home; one premature and abandoned in the hospital, two that were handed in; and another whose mother has died and the father, who has 5 other children, asked for helped to care for the child for the first year. One of them is 4 months old and weighs 2.6kg. And another has heart problems and respiratory problems.
September 2009
August 2009
With 1 year and nine months, Yeremi goes happily to Italy.
Lules and Juan come to support us for four months.
Ronaldiño is dieing having recently celebrated his 3rd birthday. His mother, who was raped in her community when she was just 14, didn't know how to take care of him and after giving him his name handed him in. As a baby, he got ill very frequently and with 18 months, we took him to Lima where he was diagnosed with pulmonary microlitiases, an illness with no cure except a transplant. It therefore suited him to live at sea level, but we didn't succeed in finding him somewhere to stay and after 8 months he has returned to Amantani without symptoms. Because of his illness he was never adopted. With a flu, which has ended in pneumonia and an advancement of his illness, he leaves us in less than a week. Ronaldiño, how we wish you hadn't gone.
July 2009
Jairo enters the home because his father asked for help in the court due to Jairo's mother's illness. The mother died 2 months ago. With 9 months, Jairo returns to his community with his father and his two brothers.
June 2009
With 20 months, Jhojan has left us.
A son of a disabled teenage mother, he entered the home a year ago.
Last week, he underwent a failed operation.
Everyone that had the joy of sharing his life will never forget his tenderness, his smile and all the happiness that he brought to our lives, a happiness, which will help allieviate the sadness that he leaves.
May 2009
Ignacio is going to Italy with his new very young parents. We wish him the very best.
Last December, Rosemary left the orphanage with her Peruvian adoptive parents only to be later handed back to the National Secretary of Adoptions in Lima, and in turn to an orphanage in Lima. Finally she has a pair of Italian parents. We wish her all the happiness that she deserves.
Ivette celebrates her 15th birthday. She arrived as a six year old.
Teresa Femenías visits us, a supporter of Amantani
April 2009
This year, the police have already brought 26 children to Amantani.
March 2009
The authors of the book Cinco Madres, Cinco Historias (Five mothers, five stories) have decided to donate 100% of the writers rights to the children of the orphanage as they bring out a second edition. Thank you Beatriz Galán, Sara Fontacaba, Rosa Hernández, Daniela Kähler and Montse Vilà for thinking, as mothers, of the children who have none, and for your generous decision.
The second boarding house starts with 22 girls from the district’s primary school. They will no longer have to walk two or three hours to get to school each morning. Thanks to Fred Branson.
Lourdes is coming to Cusco to help in the Home for two months. Thank you, Lourdes!
Two 18 year-old mothers decided to recover their children after giving them to the police.
February 2009
Nine children arrive, four of them babies, the weight of one is 1.79 kg.
Angela, Yaselin and Bruno have left us to go with their adoptive parents in Lima. We wish them all the happiness they deserve.
January 2009
Aurora comes back and spends one month and a half with us.
After 132 satisfactory adoptions, a 3 years and 8 months old girl has been given back to us by her adoptive parents whom she happily went with last December, because of possible health problems. The girl has proved to be healthy and is now in a home in Lima where she is waiting for other adoptive parents.
December 2008
Javier Echevarría comes for his annual visit to Amantaní. For two weeks he maintains a packed timetable of activities with the children and staff of Amantaní. His stay coincides with the arrival of Carmen, who visited us years ago and who is warmly welcomed.
November 2008
Mario goes, very happy, to Barcelona with his parents.
October 2008
Mike Partridge visits us and invites the children on a journey to Cañón del Colca.
Rafa Femenías comes back to Amantaní.
September 2008
With the arrival of Hitler, Amantaní has now helped 800 children.
Dussan Loaiza passes the entrance exam for university (aged 7 in this photo).
August 2008
Amantaní celebrates its 11th Anniversary. Pilar Navarro and family celebrate with us.
July 2008
The wonderful Miriam, and the "simpáticos" Sebastián and Sergio are going for adoption. All of them to Lima. We wish for them all the happiness that they have given us.
Carmen Lilian from Spain and Lotte from Holland (9 and ten years old) came back to visit us. It gives us huge satisfaction to see them so grown up, friendly and happy after so many years.
June 2008
This month we inaugurate our third family home, with the surprise visit of Mike Partridge who has made the house possible. Ten more children will benefit from sharing the house in a family environment.
From the Amantaní home, Rafael and Angel are being adopted (in Italy). We're going to miss them a lot but we wish them all the happiness which has been waiting for them.
May 2008
Thanks to Fred Branson, we've opened a boarding school in the district of Ccorca. Set up to benefit the young girls of the mountainous region who previously had to walk for two hours in order to attend their classes, it is housed in a building provided by the community and has been specially renovated for this use. Its capacity is twenty-two beds for the girls from the most distant communities, whom now have somewhere to stay.
April 2008
Dayana is reunited with her mother after staying ten months in Amantaní. Her mother had left her in the care of another woman in Puerto Maldonado, who, with no sign of the mother, reported the case. On her return to the woman, Dayana's mother started to look for her daughter and is now finally reunited with her in Cusco.
March 2008
Monica, who has spent the last four and a half years with Amantaní, is going with her step-sister to Cerro de Pasco.
Isabel is going to the USA. Finally a girl who knows how to give so much love will get the hugs she so greatly deserves.
And the marvelous Gabriela leaves us for Italy.
February 2008
Mariona says that what she most likes about Cusco are the children.
Javier Echevarría came for his annual visit to Amantaní with his daughter Mariona.
Michael, at 6 years old, goes for adoption with some wonderful Italian parents - we foresee happiness for him.
January 2008
The police admit two cousins for presumed maltreatment. And they bring us two recently born babies, having removed them from their mother's care.
The police decide to return the two cousins to their mother.
December 2007
Mike Partridge, a great friend and supporter of Amantaní, came to visit us for a week. He has undertaken to help us with the purchase of a house which will become our third Family Home.
