Over the weekend Dr. Benji, our staff, and his students visited a community on the outskirts of Iquitos to do free oral health exams....

An Angel Named Damaras Damaras was identifying families in need of our water purification system and it brought her to this little...

A message from Leovina Perez, Executive Director of People of Peru Project, Iquitos. Greetings to each of you from People of Peru...

"My mom could never buy me all my school supplies, I always had just one or two notebooks. Now I have all my supplies to go to school....

The day when millions of Americans count the abundant blessings they have been given, while millions more look from the outside, and...

Our kids being kids!! Just a few pictures in the days of their lives!

Now I will tell you about Kayla our 17-year-old mother who is living in our foster care facility. Unbelievable is all I can say... She...

I went to the central plaza to find a family that has been sponsored in school by a volunteer last January. We have been trying for...

We stepped off a marine repair dock along an Amazon tributary and moved to the shade on the first landing of the steep stairs leading to...

I watched a man dance in the square for money. What made him unique was he had only one arm and one short stub for a leg. He sits on the...

She sells candy on the streets to help the family survive. She was nine years old when I met her and now she is fourteen. She is not as...

The first call of the day was to pick up the sister of my friend Marina and take her to the eye doctor. She has had vision problems for a...

I woke up this morning in a foreign land surrounded by people that are very different from me. Most of them will never come close to...

His name is Abelardo. He is a twenty-seven-year-old subsistence farmer that has struggled to provide for his wife Edith and daughter...

This is Jasmine. She is fourteen-years-old and lives in a small village up the river, about three hours from Iquitos.  At the age of ten...

Ryan and Rosany Haberly have accepted the position as directors of POPPYS House. What a privilege to have this dedicated couple as an...