About Us
Our Work
New Hope Peru serves orphaned and vulnerable children and families in Southern Peru through a combination of residential care and family-based care services, including family reintegration and adoption for eligible children.
Our residential care program provides family-style, individualized care for vulnerable children. Children at New Hope, ranging from babies to older children in vocational training or higher education, live in casitas (small family-style apartments) with groups of 4-5 other children and their house parents. Every child in our residential care program has a specific care plan focused on getting them into a family-based solution.
The children living at New Hope come from a variety of backgrounds, and many have family members (parents or extended family members) who are still part of their lives. Situations involving alcohol and drug abuse, domestic abuse and other relationship problems, imprisonment, health crisis, and extreme poverty often lead to children being removed from their home setting and placed in a children’s home like ours. In these cases, one of our primary focuses is in working with the family members to assess whether there are interventions that could be made to allow the children to return home eventually. This is a priority for the Peruvian government and we work closely with them to assess the safety of the children and advocate for their best interests in relation to their families of origin.
Our History
New Hope Children’s Home was founded in 1995 in response to the number of orphaned and abandoned children that were living on the streets at that time.
1993: New Hope’s formation begins in response to the number of orphaned and abandoned children living on the streets. At that time, there were very limited resources available for vulnerable children. Plans to open the first privately run children’s home in Arequipa begin.
1995: New Hope Children’s Home opened in the small suburb of Arequipa. Soon there were 25 children living in the small, two-story rented home and there was no way to create more space to take more children in. Land is purchased to build a new site nearby and construction began quickly.
1996: The site in Pachacutec opened with small family-style apartments to provide small group living with house parents. The facility now includes a playground, soccer and volleyball courts, commercial-grade kitchen, chapel, bakery, library and open green space for children to play.
2018: After 23 years of serving vulnerable children through our residential care program, New Hope began a process of transitioning to a more holistic model of care focusing on family-based solutions, including reintegration support, kinship (extended family) care, and adoption.
2019: New Hope Peru joined CAFO (Christian Alliance for Orphans) and began working with a local coalition to establish foster care as part of the spectrum of care for children separated from parental care.
Our mission and guiding values
Our mission
To serve orphaned, abandoned and at-risk children of Peru; to demonstrate the love of Christ in our actions and manner of work; to provide physical, emotional and spiritual care for the children entrusted to us.
Our Vision
To see children heal from the trauma they have experienced and be enabled to flourish – establishing a personal, life changing faith in Jesus Christ, developing skills to make positive personal choices, engaging in healthy personal and family relationships, and being actively involved in their local communities and vocational choices.
Our guiding values
We believe children are best cared for in families. We believe that Scripture and social science both confirm that children are best cared for in nurturing families. When a family of origin cannot provide this, an alternate family-based solution is best.
We provide adoptive-style residential care as a temporary solution for vulnerable children. We care for children in residential care as members of a family: providing low staff-to-child ratios, family-style living arrangements and personalized care for individual needs and interests. Each child has an individual care plan focused on a family-based solution through reintegration support, kinship (extended family) care, or adoption for those who are eligible.
We see children as individuals. Every child’s situation is different and complex, therefore care solutions vary greatly and are pursued carefully. Each child is unique in their needs, interests, and giftings, therefore we provide opportunities for pursuing individual interests to be pursued and individual needs to be met.
We are a Christian home. We believe it is our responsibility as Christ followers to care for vulnerable children. We acknowledge God’s design for children to be part of a nurturing family and pursue family-based solutions as a result.
Our team
Carla Galarza
Executive Director
Lourdes Lupaca
Accountant
Sandra Rivera
Director of Education
Kimberly Gallegos
Lead Social Worker for Foster Care Initiative
Erika Baltazar
Lead Social Worker for Residential Program
Rosangela Maynita
Director of Residential Program
JORGE MINAYA
Director of Operations for Deli Esperanza
Bertin Rivera
Administrator
ELVIN DIAZ
Director of Development
JOSE ANTONIO CASTILLO
Licensed Therapist and Director of Foster Care Program
Our board of directors
As a registered 501(c)3, a Board of Directors oversees the work being done by New Hope. Each member of the board signs our doctrinal statement and brings their own experience, skills and abilities to help ensure that New Hope is faithfully carrying out its mission.
- Current board members
- Eric Eaton – chair
- Nate DeWitt
- Doug Bartlett
- Bryan Adam
- Kathleen Dunlap