Who are we?
Lazos Association
Lazos con Perú (Links with the People of Peru) is a non-profit making association, inscribed in the Register of Andalucian Associations under number 7.253.
This Association was founded in 2006, after two volunteers stayed at the San Camilo Home, in Lima, Peru. This experience indelibly marked the lives of these two people who, upon their return, spoke about what they had seen and many decided to collaborate and help. In order to organise all this help, they created the association.
At the Home, these volunteers were impressed by the tremendous work being carried out there, specially the work with children suffering from AIDS and their families.
San Camilo Home
The San Camilo Home was founded in 1995, in the largest cloister of an old convent of the Camillus Monks, for the purposes of accommodating, accompanying and attending to people with HIV/AIDS living in extreme poverty, encouraging a path to health where the value of life is given the greatest priority. It is organised into performance programmes focussed on the different realities of the illness: pregnant women, sick children, orphaned children, families with several people suffering from the disease...) and all within the context of great deprivation and despair.
Contrary to appearances, the Home is a place and way of life in which the “Joy of Living” is very much present. The stories of battles, of courage, of hope, of ability to overcome and of celebration overwhelm all those who arrive from the outside world.
And this is the Lazos (Links) Association, a group of people who are determined that things can change, that together we are capable of doing many things and that our help and commitment to justice are necessary in order for us to build a better world for everyone.