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Thank you for giving to the Blessed to be a Blessing Campaign! You helped us offer critical supplies of staple food items to 150 Peruvian households with acute food insecurity due to mandatory lockdown restrictions

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It has been 30 days since the mandatory social distancing orders went into effect in Peru. One of the groups most affected have been informal laborers. The Peruvian National Institute of Statistics estimates that ¾ of all workers in the Peruvian economy are in this category.

The consequence of these measures are huge groups of individuals and whole families who in normal times live hand to mouth, but now have no income to sustain their households. Many of these same households don’t have access to clean water nor sanitary sewer systems and are struggling greatly to maintain the levels of hygiene that the pandemic requires of all of us.

Palabra Hecha Hombre has been in constant communication with our contacts and friends who live in extreme poverty on the edges of the city of Lima. We want to make sure they know that we are in solidarity with them through these difficult times. We have been offering critical information about government resources, doing informal counseling, and sharing prayer requests about the difficult journey we are all walking.

Personally, I have been encouraged that even during times like this our friends have refreshed my spirit, and I have been blessed to hear stories of their faith.

Inspired by our friends, we are calling this fundraising campaign “Blessed to be a Blessing.”

The Blessed to be a Blessing campaign offers critical supplies of staple food items to 150 households with informal workers who are not eligible to receive the Peruvian government’s economic stimulus bonus.

We are coordinating the campaign through our contacts in each neighborhood. Each contact organizes a list of those who are not eligible to receive the stimulus money, how many people live in that household, and other basic information about their needs and what prayer requests they have.

For many of our friends who serve as contacts, their participation in this campaign means not only a valuable source of nutrition for their own family but also an opportunity to be a blessing to their neighbors and to help organize their community’s care for the most needy people in their neighborhood.

As of today, the mandatory stay at home order is still in effect, all public transit is restricted, and those without a way to earn income or receive government stimulus money are sinking deeper into food insecurity.It is very hard for me to hear about this reality.

We are all living through difficult and challenging times. God is challenging us press into what it means to be a good Samaritan to those around us.

Here’s what I am asking- pray for this campaign. Help us out as you are able.Tell others about the urgency.And look around you - God will guide your steps towards those who are suffering.

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