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Friday, October 29, 2010

Rosita in hospital

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Contact details

Avenida Parra 110, Arequipa, Peru
house_of_penguins@yahoo.com
Tel: 0051.54.223851
http://www.lacasadelospinguinos.com/

The Reception

Breakfast Room

Spanish Cafe Arequipa

Spanish Cafe Arequipa is a language school that operates in the bungalow and garden. There are many courses to choose from or you can opt for just a 2 hour lesson to practice your Spanish.
Private lessons are 18 soles per hour, group lessons 12 soles per hour (max. 4 persons). Prices for courses and contact details are mentioned on http://www.spanishcafearequipa.blogspot.com/

Family Room

Spacious Room

Single room

Bar with cold drinks

Prices

The prices for the room are in Peruvian Nuevos Soles and include a varied breakfast.
Single 55 soles
Double 90 soles
Twin 90 soles
Family room (double and single bed) 105 soles

The Garden

Story of Rosita

Rosita was born in January 2010 with a cleft lip and palate. Her parents come from Putina, a small village 7 hrs away from Arequipa. Because of her cleft lip she could not take milk properly and stayed very small. Her parents travelled to Arequipa to look for help. The organisation Paz Holandesa does free operations on amongst others cleft lip and palate, but they discovered that she also had a heart problem. Paz Holandesa contacted CardioStart, an american organisation who organise heart operations in Arequipa. Rosita in the meanwhile was in hospital with pneumonia and lost a lot of weight causing concern whether she was strong enough for the heart surgery. On the 28th of September she had the heart surgery and she is now in intensive care recovering. But she will still need more operations for her lip and she needs a lot of care. The most important item she needs is plain formula milk, but her parents cannot afford this. A big can of Nan formula milk cost 70 soles while here parent are farmers who live off the land and have two more kids to feed. Minimum wage in Peru is after taxes 480 soles!

La Casa de los Pinguinos has kind of adopted Rosita and will organise buying milk and medication for Rosita for as long as it is needed. There is a collection tin in the reception for donations.
Donations can also be made by transferring money into account 650905407 of ING Bank Nijkerk, to A. ten Bouwhuys with reference Rosita.
All donations, no matter the amount are welcome!

Rosa and family at La Casa de los Pinguinos

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