Day 18 - Lima

Today we are to present the cheque to the Anita Goulden Trust. We have been sponsored and also are contributing and we were thrilled to write out a giant cheque for presentation purposes for £50,000. Anita Goulden is a wonderful English woman who came to Peru and was shocked at the plight of many of the children. She remained here and has devoted her life to helping a large number of them to overcome physical and other disabilities. She has a home and school in Piura in the north of the country. Anita was not able to travel because of health problems, but the Matron of the home, Pali, and 3 of the children - Hugo (21), Dilma (18) and Esther (11) - together with Roger Brown from the charity, came to accept the cheque.

 

The car with the fifty thousand pound cheque on the windscreen!

The British Ambassador, Roger Hart, arrived and we had a cheque-presenting ceremony with a TV crew filming.

They gave us a thank you card with the names of all the children at La Sendita, the home. We gave everyone Inca caps and shirts and took photos.

Colin taking some video of Pali and the children.

 We all had lunch together then said an emotional goodbye. We later took a taxi with a very pleasant driver to go on a sightseeing tour of Lima. We saw the Plaza Mayor, the Cathedral, the Government Buildings and St. Francis' Monastery with its catacombs and bones from thousands of local dead people.

We returned by taxi to the hotel. Our chalet at the resort.

Back at the hotel, dinner was in the Salon las Americas with more singers and dancers.