Strengthening and supporting families in Peru
Supporting vulnerable children in their home communities through family strengthening, local adoption, and crisis response.
Peru is the third largest country in South America
The world’s biggest rainforest, the Amazon, takes up nearly half of the country. Sixty percent of all female workers in Peru are informal laborers, meaning they find financial means more through entrepreneurial initiatives due to limited formal work options. This can lead to reduced protection by governmental policies or access to health coverage or retirement benefits.
Through programs that support families, provide education, and offer vocational training, Buckner Peru helps women and children gain stability, protection, and opportunities to thrive.
Lives impacted in Peru
Buckner Peru ministries
Buckner Peru supports children and families through foster care, Family Hope Centers, and youth programs, providing safety, nutrition, and opportunities to thrive.
Foster care and adoption
Buckner Peru helps find safe and loving temporary homes for children.
In May of 2007, Buckner Peru and El Programa Integral Nacional para el Bienestar Familiar signed an agreement to develop the first foster care program in Peru. On March 10, 2008, Buckner Peru made history when officials from the Ministry of Women and Social Development and Buckner placed eight Peruvian children into the country’s first foster families. Because of the hard work of Buckner staff, Peru wrote foster care into its law at the end of 2013, a historic landmark for the child welfare system of Peru.
Buckner Family Hope Centers®
Buckner operates three Family Hope Centers in Peru: two in Pamplona, an extremely impoverished community in the capital city of Lima, and one in Cusco. Vulnerable children and fragile families receive not only immediate help for daily needs but also long-term training and counseling to help them achieve self-sufficiency and relief from poverty.
Basic nutrition is distributed each month to children and families served by the Buckner Family Hope Centers in Peru, and purified water is provided for all clients of the center.
Youth aging out homes
In 2008, Buckner Peru launched a home program for female youth aging out of orphan care in preparation for independent living. With one home in Lima and one in Cusco, residents are enrolled in an academic, vocational, or rehabilitation program. Services include case management, room and board, education, job training, tutoring, and mentoring.