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The International Fellowship of Paz y Esperanza (Peace and Hope) is a community of national leaders from each of the Peace and Hope offices in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Brasil, El Salvador, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States. It exists for mutual support, sharing of experiences and…...

Peace and Hope International is pleased to invite you to join us in a 50-minute virtual session on Tuesday, October 4, at 8:00pm, EDT, to learn about education for children in the deaf community of the Amazon region of Peru. Experts from San Martin, Peru will share testimonies and explain…...

Recently, the United States Institute of Peace highlighted the peacebuilding work carried out by the Peace and Hope team in Colombia. In the Uraba Antioqueño region, Peace and Hope focuses its efforts in supporting displaced communities, especially women who are family heads, in dealing with their emotional trauma as survivors…...

Alina Valverde was only 15 years only when she learned about Peace and Hope (Paz y Esperanza).  Living in a low-income community in Guayaquil, Ecuador, she told us, “Paz y Esperanza came to my school to give some workshops about intrafamilial violence, which was interesting to me as I wanted…...

“When we take care of creation, the natural world, people discover God. When we destroy the earth, we actually destroy a channel through which people can know God,” Tamara commented this past week during the Peace and Hope team’s weekly devotionals in Tomaykichwa, Peru. What a powerful thought, brought on…...

Peace and Hope Ecuador is hosting a panel on the rights of children this week.  What makes this panel discussion so special is that it is not only for kids, it is also by kids!  With four students as panelists and two as moderators, the audience in Guayaquil can hear…...

Today we enter into this season of Advent, waiting for the coming King with great hope and anticipation, and we took a moment to sit down with two members of the Peace and Hope (Paz y Esperanza) team in Bolivia to learn about their work this past year and what…...

Give the first week of December and your money can go twice as far:  As millions of Americans prepare to celebrate the holiday of Thanksgiving, Peace and Hope International is seeking to channel some of the abundance towards those who are suffering in the wake of the pandemic. Many make…...

In face of the pandemic, the Peace and Hope office in Huánuco, Peru has had to be creative and flexible for how to accomplish our work there, which is primarily focused on the rights of children and adolescents to be free from sexual violence. As efforts to curb the spread…...

Peace and Hope and other organizations are joining efforts to build an oxygen plant in Andahuaylas in the highlands of Apurimac, Peru to help people suffering from Covid-19 and other respiratory conditions. As the tragedy of this pandemic continues to unfold, we have people needlessly dying for the simple reason…...