Our last 10 days in Cusco

We have basically only a week left in Cusco and we will be heading back to Europe. Quite a strange feeling after a year of traveling & quite strange to leave the center and the kids...Time to move on. Otherwise everything becomes a routine :)

One of the more important things left for us to do in Cusco is to prepare for the Christmas Party - we have prepared 40 big presents for each of our kids. We received lots of clothing and toys as donations so I think that the kids will be very happy. We have also managed to secure sponsors who will prepare the traditional Christmas chocolate and give small presents to the kids as well. The only thing we still need to do is decorate the room for the party and make sure Santa Claus comes on time to give the presents to the kids :)))

Most of the things we wanted to do for Bruce Peru have been accomplished...this week we will still test all the kids for parasites. Lets hope they bring the samples for testing as we requested them. One thing that might still cause some problems is our rabbit - we have tentatively found him a new home but he became sick - we are giving him medicines every day but we cannot see any progress. The creature is now terribly thin and quite miserable...Hopefully he gets better within a week otherwise there is going to be a problem with moving him to a new home...

On Friday we celebrated the International Volunteer Day. United Nations organized quite a few events around the world. We had a great chocolate cake prepared by our cook!!! It is incredible what kind of cakes she can make considering the kitchen equipment for baking we have.


We have lots of new pictures from our volunteers. There are lots which are really nice so take your time and have a look.

- pictures from Michala & Sarah (from Denmark) - set 1; set 2
- pictures from Katie & Tom (from Canada) - set 1; set 2
- pictures from Caroline (from Belgium) - set 1; set 2 ; set 3

Together with Rita we also want once again to say thank you for all their efforts and donations we have received only thanks to their circle of friends and family. There are no words which can express our gratitude and we are happy that also next year we will be able to take good care of the kids thanks to them. Very BIG THANKS especially to everyone in Canada!!!