Quechua Benefit will complete the first phase of construction at Casa Chapi in the winter of of 2011. We still need help building several children cottages in the complex. We also need sponsors for the visitors house and the Chapel.
Category Archives: Casa Chapi
Build It and They Will Come
I had seen poverty before but never lived it. In Peru my sister and I spent time living among children at two different orphanages. We were there as part of the Quechua Benefit team, a charity that sponsors dental trips to the poorest regions of Peru every year.
Building A Future
Quechua Benefit will begin construction of Casa Chapi in March of 2009. Bricks will be laid, timbers raised and soon a home will appear. The complex, when complete, will be 38,150 square feet. The management team has identified four hundred potential residents and will interview them to determine who is most needy.
When Villages Work Together
Casa Chapi is rising on a terraced Andean hillside in the Colca valley like a giant Condor soaring from its rocky nest on the nearby canyon walls.
Casa Chapi: The Story Behind the Name
A long time ago (1709 to be exact) in a town not far from the Peruvian colonial city of Arequipa a committee of the men decided to move a statue of the Virgin Mary to Arequipa proper. The committee supervised the loading the image of Mary onto a cart pulled by donkeys. But after moving the statue only a few feet it became so heavy that the donkeys, strain as the might, were brought to a standstill.
Casa Chapi
A long time ago (1709 to be exact) in a town not far from the Peruvian colonial city of Arequipa a committee of the men decided to move a statue of the Virgin Mary from a small town in the hills to a church in the city proper. The committee supervised the loading the image of Mary onto a cart pulled by donkeys. But after moving the statue only a few feet it became so heavy that the donkeys, strain as the might, were brought to a standstill.
Casa Chapi – The Model
In Quechua, chapi means “here” and in Spanish casa means “home.” All too often small children in Peru have no home. Quechua Benefit aims to change this reality.
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