Léon

We are glad to support Sinfonia por el Peru in their amazing project in El Augustino, Lima. A very challenging "barrio" of Peru biggest city.

Sinfonia por el Peru changes lives of disadvantage children through music, teaching them self esteem, discipline, greater tenacity and increasing their creativity; they had lately very persuasive results at an impact assessment conducted by the Bureau of Studies for Development - GRADE .

The association was created by world famous tenor Juan Diego Flores. 

They have already developped 10 centers in and around Lima and are just creating the number 11 (september 2015). Association Léon provides for drumming instruments for this amazing orchestra.

Fanny Brabeck-Letmathe visited them for a rehersal in october 2015.

We got to know Bin Trieu center in Vietnam, close to Ho Chi Minh. It's a center that welcomes kids coming from provinces outside the capital city. They arrive in Ho Chi Minh as "immigrant" and are not entitled to attend schools; therefore they are very often turning into "street children". 

The Bin Trieu welcomes as many of these children as they can and they provide for: 

- teaching

- feeding

- in some cases they even find accomodation for them

Association Léon could fund the extra teacher that school needed: her name is Hoang Thi Thu Hang. She will teach to 33 young students. 

We have been following Teach for All in Peru (Enseña Peru) for more than 3 years. The concept is amazing: they take the best students of the most prestigious universities of the country and send them to teach in the most challenging neighborhood for 2 years.

Leaders of Enseña Peru have a different approach to education than regular teachers: they are willing to reach beyond the four walls of the classroom, help their students rise above the challenges they face, and make up for weaknesses in schools and systems. Their leadership, high standards, and firm belief in their students’ abilities inspire those students to believe in themselves and strive for formerly unimaginable goals.

We are proud to be able to sponsor one of these leaders of the change: Daniela Gamboa. She just graduated from Universidad de Piura and will start in March 2015 her professional career by working 2 years in a Prekinder in Pachacutec (a low-income neighborhood in the outskirts of Lima).

This sponsorship has been possible thanks to all donations received from a wonderful “Party for Association Léon” birthday held in November 2014. We sincerely thank our kind ambassador (the birthday kid) and his generous friends : ‘’good boys and bad girls’’.

 The second newsletter of the year is available here: 2014 10 newletter ang.pdf

We met Alberto de Cárdenas, CEO of Peru Champs in april 2014 in Lima and we turned fan imimmediately!

Their vision is to connect high-potential kids from low-income families with people around the world who are willing to fund their education. These kids will receive a scholarship to study at Innova Schools - a local chain of schools designed by the award-winning innovation firm IDEO - that provides affordable world-class education to the Peruvian emerging middle class.

Thanks to the birthday's parties of Fanny and Lionel we raised funds and could sponsor 3 kids for one year. Here are "our" kids: 

• Roberto Montoya Riviera, 13 years old. He said: "I want to illuminate cities with an alternative form of energy"
• Junior Ochandarte Lazo, 12 years old. He said: "I would like to redesign transportation system"
• Sergio Mariano Zegarra Castillo, 14 years old. He said: "I want to find a cure for cancer"

Check out the website of Peruchamps