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First of all the biggest aim of 2010 will be: to be able to finish the Children Hospital ‘Tony Molleapaza Rojas’. We will continuing putting all our effort in realizing the promise of the Gobierno Regional de Arequipa, made in September 2008!, which is to donate 1,3 million US Dollars, in order to buy the needed equipment for the hospital.
We have planned again two plastic-surgery operation projects and maybe even three.
Depending the results of our efforts with the Gobierno Regional de Arequipa.
And of course we will continuing with the after-care treatment programs of the children, food donations to Chavez de la Rosa and Chavez de la Rosa, the urine-incontinence-management project for the children with Spina Bifida and much more.

Two surgical projects As is to be expected the hospital will be taken into full operation by December 2009. Two plastic surgery projects are planned for October and November 2009, led by Dr. Reinier van Twisk and Dr. Ron Hiles, in which we hope to be able to treat 100 children or more .
After-care projects
With the commissioning of the clinic in April 2009 we will be able to provide speech therapy, psychology, physiotherapy, urology (self catheterization) and dental care.
Donation Projects
Since the year 2001 we donate vegetables, fruit, meat, milk and other food to the children of Arequipa on a weekly basis. The children’s orphanage Chavez de la Rosa is owned by the government. The food is provided by the municipality. However, the meals are inadequate and do not meet the needs of children aged 0-12. More than 75 children, mostly foundlings and orphans, are assigned to live in this home. The orphanage in Sabandya is entirely dependent on private donations. This home houses nearly 40 mentally and physically disabled children.
Hospital Goyeneche and its patients
The Hospital Goyeneche, the poorest hospital in Arequipa, owned by the Ministry
of Health, is supported by the Foundation since 2000. Thanks to medical equipment and materials donated by Erasmus Medical Centre and Medical Centre Haaglanden, significant improvements were achieved in the operation section and in the nursing rooms. Subsequently we started donating basic medical material – which patients have to provide for themselves before any operation or treatment – directly. In doing so, these patients – who are lacking the necessary funds – are supported by the Foundation as well.
The donation of drains
As a result of the support of IF (International Federation of Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida), since 2000 donations are made in order to provide surgical packages with drains to children with birth defects such as cleft spine and hydrocephalus (e.g. as a complication of TB). In Peruvian daily life patients buy their own drains whereas the financial resources are lacking.