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NOVEMBER 2011
A MESSAGE TO OUR SUPPORTERS
Jesus came that all people might have an abundant life. If we believe this promise, then we must trust that resources in the world are sucient to sustain life in abundance for everyone. Do we truly reect and live out this promise? How can we advance and live out Gods economy of abundance, especially in mes of apparent scarcity? This is our challenge.
I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
John 10:10, ASV
We believe that, with the global economic downturn, we have been given a wonderful opportunity to align our beliefs and atudes with Jesus example. So that all people might live abundantly, we respond by becoming acve seekers and doers of Gods jusce. Peace and Hope Internaonal, along with the family of Paz y Esperanza organizaons, does this by working for the transformaon of the whole person (meeng economic, legal, psychological, social and spiritual needs) and by addressing systemic causes of injusce. When we see people transformed and systems changed, we catch glimpses of God's kingdom where life in abundance is possible for everyone. As we encounter and learn from the people we walk alongside and serve including tracking vicms in Minnesota, USA; children recovering from sexual abuse in Guayaquil, Ecuador; women survivors who are monitoring the legal system in Hunuco, Peru; indigenous women who are advocang for their rights in San Marn, Peru; and pastors that preach against domesc violence in Santa Cruz, Bolivia we are amazed at the ways that God is moving to bring jusce to disenfranchised people. This has been a momentous year. In January, we celebrated Paz y Esperanzas 15 year anniversary in Peru. Our Andemos internaonal volunteer program parcipaon grew by over 100 percent and volunteers provided 8250 service hours (see page 4). Our Fortalece Project trained hundreds of leaders in Lan America on how to eect posive social change (see page 5). And we connued to support lifetransforming services to women, children families, communies, and others, in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. Thanks to you, our supporters who have embraced Jesus call to live abundantly, we have connued our jusce work despite a dicult economic climate. We hope that the stories you nd in these pages encourage and inspire you. We pray you might also catch glimpses of God's kingdom and what it means to live life in abundance.
Sincerely,
Sincerely,
Alfonso Wieland
Co-Internaonal Director
OUR STAFF
USA DIVISION Colleen Beebe Purisaca Co-Internaonal Director Sna Kielsmeier-Cook Communicaons Associate Jordan Sanders Accounng Manager LATIN AMERICA DIVISION Alfonso Wieland Co-Internaonal Director Rolando Prez Advocacy Director Fiorella Galvez Andemos Program Associate Sarvia Grijalva Communicaons Associate Gladis Morales Administrave Assistant Benjamn Bravo Community Liaison Pedro Guerrero Accounng Manager
OUR BOARD
Benjamin Thiesen, President Germn Vargas, Vice President Loida Carriel, Secretary Sco Wold, Treasurer Alfonso Wieland, ex ocio Colleen Beebe Purisaca, ex ocio Ruth Cspedes Jess Purisaca Edison Romero Jos Vinces
Conducted 54 presentaons and training sessions for over 1300 people in the USA, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador on topics such as domesc violence, integral mission, capacity building (see Fortalece below), human rights, and immigraon at venues such as Bethel University, the Jusce+1 Conference, Hamline University School of Law, World Mission Prayer League, and others. Provided $41,000 in direct service funding for combang violence against women and children to Paz y Esperanza programs in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru. Facilitated the placement of four volunteer sta that will serve full-me in the Ecuador (in partnership with World Mission Prayer League) and Bolivia Paz y Esperanza oces. Hosted a ve-member team that visited Paz y Esperanza programs in Peru. Provided life transforming experiences through ANDEMOS (see facing page).
PEACE AND HOPE INTERNATIONALS WORK: LATIN AMERICA AND THE USA
RUTHS STORY
The legal clinic helps tracking victims like Ruth (not her real name). She was lured into the United States by a man claiming to be her boyfriend, only to be raped repeatedly and forced work for nothing. Ruth escaped, but her aggressor retaliated by killing her father and threatening her family in her home country. Thankfully, Ruth's family was able to join her and nd safety in the United States. With help from PHI's free legal services, Ruth and her family have applied for their green cards and are on a path towards citizenship.
Provided free legal advice, services and referral on immigraon, employment, family law, and other issues to 744 low-income people through its free Walk-in Legal Clinic. With volunteer help from over 40 lawyers, law students, paralegals, and interpreters, the Legal Clinic served 25% more people between July 2010 and June 2011 than in the previous year. The Legal Clinic is a joint project between PHI, the Volunteers Lawyers Network and the Park Avenue Youth and Family Services. Provided ongoing legal representaon in 11 immigraon cases, including: invesgang and performing ongoing services for three U-Visa (Vicm of Crime) potenal applicants; preparing and ling permanent residence applicaons for ve T-Visa recipients (Vicms of Human Tracking); preparing and ling naturalizaon applicaons for three applicants who had received asylum in the U.S. based on persecuon for polical beliefs in Colombia.
Being situated in Peru uniquely allows Paz y Esperanza to receive and support volunteers in a way that is eective and contextually appropriate. They oer not only years of experience with international volunteers, but also a well-developed understanding of the changing dynamics of missions and global volunteerism, inviting volunteers to serve alongside the Paz y Esperanza sta to acquire intercultural understanding and walk together along the path toward justice and development in South America. - Ryan Juskus, Assistant Director, Human Needs and Global Resources Program, Wheaton College
I know I want to continue working with marginalized people. I nd part of myself in them. Its a really beautiful breaking of barriers. - Holly Braun, Wheaton College student who served with Paz y Esperanza in Ayacucho, Peru for six months. Holly continues to work with at-risk populations in the USA.
From 2010 to 2011, the number of parcipants increased by 103% (from 27 to 56), the number of groups parcipang from 2 to 5, the number of sponsoring agencies from 6 to 11, and the number of service hours provided to clients by 61% (from 4960 to 8250). Andemos hosted groups and individuals from Venture Expedions, Judson University, Internaonal Jusce Mission, Yale University, Alliance Theological Seminary, University of Florida, Wheaton College, and Pepperdine University. Volunteers helped to pursue jusce by working with women and children who are recovering from sexual and domesc abuse, providing mental health services for vicms of polical violence, construcng housing for people living in poverty, implemenng domesc violence prevenon campaigns, collecng life stories from people who have suered human rights abuses to assist with trauma recovery, working to build the capacity of local churches, and helping with Truth and Reconciliaon Commission follow-up.
Providing direct services (such as legal support and aercare) to over 400 women and children that have experienced abuse in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. Opening the rst shelter for abused women and children in the region of Hunuco, Peru. Helping women achieve economic self-suciency through micro-nance, housing iniaves, and training in Ecuador and Peru. Engaging church leaders to lead an an-human tracking educaonal campaign in Guayaquil and Cuenca, Ecuador. Broadcasng radio programs about violence prevenon that reach thousands of listeners in Guayaquil, Ecuador and Apurimac, Peru. Training over 150 women and community leaders to carry out local eorts to combat violence and protect women and children in Guayaquil, Ecuador and Apurimac, Peru.
Providing culturally appropriate psychotherapy services in post-conict regions for persons who have experienced polical violence. Equipping teachers to incorporate violence prevenon and conict resoluon in their classroom curriculum in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Helping to prosecute cases of human rights violaons in Peru, supporng the vicms, and accompanying family members during exhumaons of mass graves. Implemenng the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliaon Commissions recommendaons for legal reform and reparaons through its vicm registraon project.
I heard that Peace and Hope was helping victims of sexual abuse [and] my daughter has been well cared for with lots of professionalism and aection. She has been able to recover from the traumatic experience she lived on account of her father. I would like Peace and Hope to continue helping my daughter until she can...start relating to other people again. Juana Segunda, mother of an abused child
I didnt have my birth certicate...but I was able to get my [it] (through a Paz y Esperanza campaign)...Now I have my (national identity document) and I can easily enroll my children in school, and I can also travel without any problems. Maritza Juum Sejekam, comunera from the Awajun indigenous community of Shampuyacu
Training 38 pastors in integral mission, smuggling and tracking issues, best pracces in supporng vicms, and ways to promote jusce through its Human Tracking and Smuggling Prevenon Project in Cuenca, Ecuador. This network of pastors will carry out awareness raising acvies in 2012. Training Sunday school teachers on prevenng child sexual abuse in Ecuador. Conducng research on integral mission, social jusce and human rights to build the Bolivian Evangelical Churchs capacity to address issues of injusce.
Hosng the Third Meeng of Rural Women in San Marn, Peru, a region with a large indigenous populaon. Parcipants received training on best pracces for reporng acts of violence and how to strengthen their network; and addressed issues specic to the indigenous community, including their right as a people to be consulted on maers that aect their development. Holding a public forum in San Marn, Peru aended by indigenous, other community members, local government, and the oil industry to discuss the Right to Consultaon ordinance, how it is exercised in the region, and the commitment of the mining sectors to respect the rights of indigenous peoples.
Helping to obtain 12 convicons for sexual perpetrators in Guayaquil, Ecuador, a tremendous accomplishment in a country where only 5 convicons are reached for every 1,000 violent crimes reported annually. Working with public prosecutors in Guayaquil, Ecuador to improve the referral process for child vicms of sexual abuse. Providing direct legal services to over 400 women and children in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. Mobilizing groups in Hunuco, Peru to monitor the legal system, especially access, by women and children who have experienced abuse. Their ndings were presented to local public ocials to encourage improvements in the system. Training legal and psychological professionals who provide services and empower women through guidance centers in San Juan de Lurigancho, an outlying impoverished region of Lima. Women beneciaries are able to obtain identy cards and birth cercates through the guidance centers so they can access the legal system. Training 25 police ocers on womens rights and child protecon in Santa Cruz, a city in Bolivia that has only 2,500 police ocers for nearly 2 million people.
MARIAS STORY
Born into an abusive home, Maria grew up believing that the violence was her fault. When she was 19 years old, Maria married a man who physically and verbally abused her for over a decade. She wanted to break the cycle of family violence for her sons, ages 6 and 11 (pictured below). With great courage, Maria sought help from Paz y Esperanza in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. With support from Paz y Esperanza, Maria has left her abuser, pressed charges with the police, and received psychological, legal and pastoral help. Now that she is safe, Maria supports her sons by working in the market and cleaning houses.
Training local farmers on organic farming methods through its Ecological Lindero Farm Project in Hunuco, Peru. Working with indigenous communies in San Marn, Peru to grow coee using sustainable methods. The rst coee harvest is ancipated in 2013. Engaging students in six schools in Pisco and San Juan de Lurigancho, Peru to write songs for a contest sponsored by its Disaster Prevenon Project. The winning songs were broadcast on the radio to raise awareness about community responses to natural disasters. Ensuring access to safe water by installing potable water systems for lowincome families in Pisco, Peru.
I want more police ocers to participate in these trainings, because police, both male and female, are often aggressors. Comment by Ocer of the Family Protection Department, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, after receiving Paz y Esperanza training.
The founding of (the womens rights center in Hunuco) represents an accomplishment for the population due to the fact that all kinds of victims of violence now have access to justice, they get holistic attention, and the state takes responsibility for these cases, which have become daily news in the regional media. Betty Vsquez Flores, President of the Multi-sectorial Conciliation Roundtable against Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse which worked with Paz y Esperanza and others to establish the center.
Peace & Hope International Statement of Activities For the year ending December 31, 2010 Temporarily Unrestricted Restricted SUPPORT AND REVENUE Contributions-Foundations Contributions-Churches Contributions-Individual Donors Contributions-Corporate Fees Special Events $40,000 $8,791 $9,513 $9,183 $67,487 $129,595 $59,565 $33,031 $604 $222,795
Net assets released from restrictions EXPENSES Program Services General Administrative Fundraising
Change in net assets Net assets beginning of year Net assets end of year
73,779.00
160,805.00
Its great to volunteer and feel like youre making a dierence in the lives of people youve never met, but its even better to know I was helping the people right in front of me and that they appreciated the work I put in. James McMahon, volunteer website designer
Minnesota State Bar Foundation Nancy Mischel Beth and Michael Montgomery Joseph and Brittany Moore Steven and Lori Wik Moore Cody and Laura Moseley Nan Muhovich Mark Nagle Jessica Neve Tze Ng Joy Nissen Frank Noboa Sarah Northrup, in honor of her mother Nina Northrup Pashal O. Nwokocha Law Oces, LLC William and Kelly Okie Georgia OBrien Tom Oja Clark Oldroyd Tony Oliva Dennis and Eleanor Olson Tim and Patti Olson Jennifer Otterbein Park Avenue United Methodist Church Tyler Parry Stephanie Payne Laura Pedersen Tony and Judy Pepper Pepperdine University Timothy Perrin Brian and Loris Lu Perronne Brent and Victoria Peterson-Hilleque Douglas and Terese Fink Peterson David Peyton Trung and Katie Pham, Phams Deli David Plumly Je and Maria Poeschl Michael Poeschl Pollo Campero Anna Porter Meghan Posey Linda Potter Presbyterian Women of Utica Julie Priest Sarah Quinn Ralph Hull Foundation Thomas Ray Donald and Janet Reid Renaissance Charitable Foundation, Inc. Resource Center of the Americas
Ezra Reynolds Garilyn and Andrew Robb Lauren Robb Molly Root Edison Romero Rubia Romero Perez Steven Rudd and Lauren Waxer L.D.B. Ruiz Jan Rupe Robert and Karyn Russell Naomi Ryman Safari Express Restaurant Darrell and Stephanie Sales Salon Ori Jordan Sanders Paula Sanders Juliana Santiago Rachel Sampong Godwin Saporu Malinda Schmiechen Allison Schultz Second Wind Bed & Breakfast I-ming Shih Jenny Shirai Theresa and Albert Shoberg Karen and David Sifert Teodoro Silva Alessandra Simmons Keith and Cynthia Simons Kelly Skiles Connie Skillingstad Francelle Slocum Lynn Smith Wade Snell III and Rebecca Soret Matthew Soerens Aria Souder Dr. Patricia Speck Lindsey Steen Rachel Stone Edward Stuart Sheila Stuhlman and John Crippen Surly Brewing Company D.C. and K.L. Swanson Joel and Amy Swanson Suzanne Swanson Rebecca and Matthew Swora Target Employee and Labor Relations Team Linda Tate Tearfund (United Kingdom and Holland) Ten Thousand Villages John William Terrazas Ann Teskey The First United Church of Arvada
The Micah Network The River Church Community The St. Paul Foundation The Shepherds Arms Rescue Mission Tearfund-Holland Benjamin and Krystell Theisen-Escobar Ashley Therrien Thomas Charles Salon Thomson Reuters True Thai Restaurant Mary Ann Van Cura Rebecca Vander Werf Liz VanPilsum Germn Vargas Katherine Venable Verizon Victors Caf Ashley Vikla Jose Vinces Kristin and Jacob Vrieswyk Sean Wadley Alexis Walstad Joseph & Janette Walter Joe and Marsha Watlington Hannah Watson Webber Law Firm Holly Wood and Benjamin Webster Barbara Weissberger Susan and Robert Welch Ursula and Karl Wesselhoeft Nicole West and Jared Bosi Tessa Natanya Wetjen Richard and Darla Wexler Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation Wheaton College Virgil Wiebe Alfonso Wieland Cynthia Williams Sarah Williams Kimberly Wilson Rosemary Wissink Scott and Janna Wold Lorna Woltho World Mission Prayer League, Inc. John and Eleanor Yackel Alissa Ylonen Jerey and Amy Youngstrom Jenny Zanner Zhingre Engineering Services, LLC
We are grateful for the generous support provided in 2010-2011 by donors and volunteers. This informaon is current up to November 1, 2011.
Websites
www.peaceandhopeinternational.org www.pazyesperanza.org www.andemos.org