Trujillo, Peru

Trujillo, on Peru’s northern coast, is the nation’s third most populous city, with its population of approximately 970,000. The city is made up of seven districts; the CHAMPS site is in one of these: La Esperanza (“hope”). Hope is what drives poor peasant farmers from the Andes mountains down to the city, as millions have done over the last decade. In just a few years, an influx of 200,000 new residents has transformed the desert foothills on the Trujillo’s borders into a new urban community. It is a slum. Infrastructure and services can be severely lacking—or nonexistent.

Healthcare

Malnutrition and anemia are widespread among pregnant women and young children. Trained healthcare professionals to staff mission hospitals are lacking.

Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene

Mothers and other poor women in this community must leverage their collective resources to have safe water delivered and to support one another and their children.

Economic Empowerment

In impoverished regions of Peru, women suffer discrimination because of their lack of education and poverty. Discrimination, lack of education, and social stigma can restrict access to services.

How We Are Responding

Working with Peru’s ministry of health, CMMB is fostering a cooperative approach to effective healthcare for the most vulnerable. To enable women and children to lead healthy, productive lives, we:

• Have community health agents supervise iron supplementation program. Recovery rates have been phenomenal: 32% among children, and 73% among pregnant women. Prevention and treatment of anemia are a priority.
• Deploy trained CHAs, who are community leaders (and often CMMB beneficiaries), to serve as ambassadors within marginalized communities, conducting nearly 29,000 individual health counseling sessions.
• Provide volunteer medical professionals to support partner facilities: Micro Red de Salud La Esperanza, Health Post Bellavista, and Belen Hospital in Trujillo. From assisting at deliveries to treating anemia, CMMB volunteers work with local staff to provide high-quality, compassionate care.
• Are empowering the most vulnerable women by providing them with training and tools to become leaders and role models in their communities.

Empowering Vulnerable Women in Peru

In impoverished regions of Peru, women suffer discrimination because of their lack of education and poverty. CMMB is working to empower the most vulnerable women by providing them with training and tools so that they can become leaders and role models in their communities.

Rehabilitation with Hope

Rehabilitation with Hope is a community-based service program in Peru, which assists children with physical and cognitive disabilities by providing much needed access to quality therapy, and is based on the implementation of the World Health Organization’s community-based rehabilitation model.

Watch how this program is transforming the lives of children with disabilities and their families.