http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography.html These are photos of babies, children and teenagers who are being treated for medical conditions in the Hogar San Francisco de Asis. A project is under to build a training center for those with physical impediments. The ‘home of hope’ as it is called will allow these young adults to become full members of society. Learn about the project here. http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography.html#0 8194cd31-4145-4365-a874-226c5f3675f9 http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography_files/Media/IMG_5674/thumb.jpg http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography_files/Media/IMG_5674/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_191_105"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4">John is a hemophiliac who already lost a leg, fingers and toes. Having to return to his home village after treatment puts him in life danger because of insufficient medical care. He hopes to become educated and stay in Lima. </p></div></div> http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography.html#1 e7ccaf8d-c416-4086-b5d7-58baae7f8943 http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography_files/Media/IMG_5671/thumb.jpg http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography_files/Media/IMG_5671/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_191_105"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4">All children in the Hogar attend local schools and receive tutoring in the afternoons.  However, many discontinue their education as they return home and to families who cannot afford to pay for their education.</p></div></div> http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography.html#2 8be10c0f-a64c-4877-b5ba-90be895631c2 http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography_files/Media/IMG_4138/thumb.jpg http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography_files/Media/IMG_4138/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_191_105"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4">Watson has been living in the home for over 7 years. There are difficulties with a prothesis for his missing foot. He will not be able to work in the countryside and hopes for a scholarship so he can acquire a skill.</p></div></div> http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography.html#3 8a237a40-6787-4c3a-a0e0-340619ed31f4 http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography_files/Media/4673/thumb.jpg http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography_files/Media/4673/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_191_105"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4">Angela was born without a foot. She has rejected several foot prothesis and so walks with a crutch. She attends school right now but needs post-secondary education in order to be really build a future, independent life.</p></div></div> http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography.html#4 24c4007c-8f06-4b98-a590-d0903c82d586 http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography_files/Media/4727/thumb.jpg http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography_files/Media/4727/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_191_105"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4">Victor came to the Hogar as a baby, missing all limbs but 1 leg. Victor learnt to write with his foot and is able to go to school with the other children. He is extremely bright and his only chance for an independent life is to study.</p></div></div> http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography.html#5 52a84d6e-f3f6-4e48-ace8-5d47dc98ae60 http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography_files/Media/4655/thumb.jpg http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography_files/Media/4655/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_191_105"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4">Jaime has been a repeated patient for burns on his neck. While living in the Hogar he went to school and is currently taking evening classes for becoming an English teacher. A former volunteer is paying the scholarship. </p></div></div> http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography.html#6 e178d80a-66ae-4d3b-b60a-5066606d13e3 http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography_files/Media/IMG_4752/thumb.jpg http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography_files/Media/IMG_4752/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_191_105"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4">Ivet spent 8 years in the Hogar with a dislocated hip. A former volunteer is now paying for her post-secondary education and living expenses in Lima.  Ivet studies sociology and will focus on child development in her future career. </p></div></div> http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography.html#7 bdd5325d-ee62-4d38-ae18-446ab02befae http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography_files/Media/IMG_4759/thumb.jpg http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography_files/Media/IMG_4759/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_191_105"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4">While being treated for Leukemia Melli attended school and evening computer classes. She had to discontinue her studies because she relapsed and went home. Melli passed away in March 2009.</p></div></div> http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography.html#8 a991f808-af3e-46f0-8819-2abedc87f941 http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography_files/Media/4659/thumb.jpg http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography_files/Media/4659/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_191_105"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4">David became paraplegic after falling from a construction site. He has been tied to a wheelchair since. A volunteer is paying for his education but he has to leave the home soon and will have nowhere to live but his remote village.  </p></div></div> http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography.html#9 16aa6620-83a8-4e7f-91c6-da67025efe8a http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography_files/Media/IMG_4920_2/thumb.jpg http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography_files/Media/IMG_4920_2/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_191_105"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4">Roselli suffers from Cerebral Palsy.  She receives physical therapy each day and is making advances.  However, she will never be able to perform manual labor and needs an education.</p></div></div> http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography.html#10 69f9f9fe-373f-4c60-83fb-1f3c7ee69e06 http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography_files/Media/1127/thumb.jpg http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography_files/Media/1127/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_191_105"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4">Anita learnt how to read and write when she came to the Hogar at 23. While she is still receiving treatment for severe burns which mutilated her foot, she is attending evening school. In her home village this is not possible.</p></div></div> http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography.html#11 cef4a5ea-482d-49ec-b783-9de2fbd8479e http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography_files/Media/4982/thumb.jpg http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography_files/Media/4982/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_191_105"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4">Darragh Quinn is an Irish long term volunteer at the Hogar. Together with John Whelan he is building the ‘Home of Hope’ which will provide education to former patients with physical disabilities. </p></div></div> http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography.html#12 d08c334b-71b3-4c5c-9eee-3f4baa3ac8b5 http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography_files/Media/5121/thumb.jpg http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography_files/Media/5121/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_191_105"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4">John Whelan, a long term volunteer from Ireland and now married to a Peruvian. John is overseeing the fundraising, construction and management of the ‘Home of Hope’ he is building with Darragh. </p></div></div> http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography.html#13 01c89394-58e6-49c2-87d7-775e3db9253e http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography_files/Media/expe_09_119/thumb.jpg http://www.personalphilanthropy.org/PersonalPhilanthropy/hogar_photography_files/Media/expe_09_119/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_191_105"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_4">Dr. Anthony Lazzara founded the Hogar San Francisco de Asis 16 years ago.  He gave up a position in pediatric academics at Emmory university and moved to Peru in 1983 to help children in a more disadvantaged country.</p></div></div>