In addition to our participation in the Kusi Kawsay school, Lourdes and I also have a program in which we provide a hot meal on every school night for fifty children in the town of Pisac who attend evening classes after working as domestic servants during the day. These children are mostly orphans or come from families with alcoholic parents who neglect them. The government provides a very minimal education for them in a seperate school from that attended by the rest of the town's children.
We began the program almost four years ago and it has become clear that many children attend the evening classes mainly to get the hot meal living as they do on the margins of society. Since starting the program the children have been attending school on a more regular basis, so it seems that the food is instrumental in ensuring they get an at least minimal education.
We also give each child presents at Christmas time.
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