By Danny Dodson | Project Leader
We are grateful to our supporters for their loyal generosity and commitment to our PH scholars and their successes in education and as young women. We are proud of our PH scholars for their scholarship and perseverance, especially in the face of many obstacles both personal, societal and now in the form of a pandemic. Typically we highlight our girls’ individual academic and professional successes and accomplishments, but this update is unique.
We want to share with you something about our Peruvian Hearts scholars’ hearts as they recently have pulled together as a family to support another fellow scholar. One of our PH scholars, Yanet, has a mother, Sra. Flora, who is suffering from a critical illness in her blood. Yanet studies systems engineering at the National University in Cusco and is an excellent student. She always has a huge smile to share with anyone and everyone, and if she is in the room her smile is contagious and the joy she shares is palpable.
Yanet is currently going through a difficult time because her beloved mother is very sick. As Flora’s only daughter, the responsibility to care for Flora falls entirely on Yanet, in addition to cleaning, cooking, and her ongoing university studies. Thankfully, Yanet is not alone, and has a lot of support from her “sisters” in Peruvian Hearts.
The young women in the Peruvian Hearts family, with the guidance and support of our team in Peru, have come together to help Yanet. They have searched and advertised on social media for blood donors for transfusions of blood and platelets that are necessary for Flora. They meet the blood donors at the hospital to provide them with a small financial tip to thank them and encourage them to donate again.
In addition the sisters of Peruvian Hearts recently came together to organize a Pollada (a fundraising event selling cooked chicken). They created the event and invited people and friends from around town. They created online tickets and collected donations from families and local businesses. Many of the PH parents and their daughters worked to cook and serve the chicken and handle registration and distribution on the day of the event. The PH scholars raised more than S/. 2,000 (approximately $500) to help with the costs of Flora’s medical treatments. In a small ceremony at her home, the PH team in Peru recently honored Flora with an award to recognize her as a woman of great courage and a mother who has fought for her children’s education. Flora is truly an example for other women and mothers.
We are proud of our scholars, their families, and our team in Peru for coming together to help their fellow scholar, Yanet, during such a challenging time. The camaraderie and network of support that has developed within the PH scholars and PH team has been exemplified yet again through the love, care, and commitment to shown to Flora and Yanet. The lessons our scholars learn through these acts of love and kindness are significant and certainly more valuable than any university course. Our PH scholars have shown that they are not just intelligent scholars academically, but that they care deeply about their character, living a life of kindness, and changing the world through acts of generosity and love.
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