The Church is very please to have formed a close link with Casa Girasoles, Ica, Peru. This is a home for abandoned boys, run by Scripture Union, Peru . Cupar Old Parish has funded the construction of this home as part of our C4Ward redevelopment project, which also involved refurbishing the main church sanctuary and extending and upgrading the church hall into our new Old Parish Centre.
Members and friends of Cupar Old Parish visited Ica in 2006 to help with the early construction of the home, and a second work party returned in October 2008 to see the now open home, with its new residents (about 40 boys and the house parents and other associated staff), as well as to help start building work on a new extension to the site. During the last trip to Peru in October 2008, a blog of the trip was kept by Will Goad and Colin Maclean - Click Here to view this
We are keeping in touch with Augusto and Nancy (the amazing house parents at the home) and hence maintain the link with the boys and to help them overcome their past histories and lead a productive future. Click here to read December 2009 news from Ica. During the 2008 trip to Peru a visit was made to the new Casa Girasoles home in the Sacred Valley, high in the Andes. This area was devasted by flooding in January 2010. Click here to read the amazing story of the destruction of the home and the survival of the boys and house parents. | Site in 2006 
and again in 2008  |
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