We came to Chimbote on the recommendation of our friend Mike Sullivan; the Parish Priest, Father Jack Davis, was a classmate of Mike's from St. John's. Jack has been in Chimbote for 30 years, and makes yearly trips to his hometown of Devil's Lake, North Dakota and other places all over the US to raise donations for projects in Chimbote. And what they have done is impressive. We visited workshops where the local people make furniture, housing projects for people with handicaps, a program for assisting women and children and a maternal child health and delivery center. Chimbote also has the first Hospice in Peru, and Pat will write about our time volunteering there and the great staff and patients and families we met.
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