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RECENT EVENT

The ACAP Board of Directors voted on May 11th to donate additional earnings from the Black and White Charity Ball to the United States Embassy Association (USEA). It decided to increase its previously agreed-upon donation to a cool $1,000. The Board was indeed delighted to contribute to such a worthy organization.

The USEA has a highly active Welfare Commmittee that researches needy institutions to seek organizations worthy of receiving donations. Its beneficiaries include three CEDRO homes for street children, an entire community called Manchay, an association that works with disabled children, and another that serves deaf children and the disabled. The USEA also helps an organization that assists HIV positive women and babies which has a program for early stimulation by financing two psychologists who run the program. Support is also given to La Cadena de Amor, a small voluntary organization that supports care and education of children up to age three who are living with their mothers in the Chorrillos prison. And these are not all the groups that are assisted by USEA.

Noche de Arte was a USEA fund-raiser for these charities. If you see other events sponsored by the USEA as a charity event, please support them if you can. There is an old addage that if you give of yourself, you will receive more in return. That is what has happened with USEA and our donation. They have given, and now thanks to the donation from your Association they have more money to give to needy Peruvian charities.

In the next few months the ACAP Donations and Welfare Committee will be reviewing proposals for charities that we may be able to help. If you know of an especially deserving group, please let us know soon by submitting the request in writing to the ACAP office, either by e-mail or by letter. Keep your eyes open! We aim to do some good around here!!!