Our Oasis Family Centre is based just outside Lima in the slums of Manchay. Poverty here is widespread. Homes in this area are often shacks made of cardboard or tin, and have no running water, sanitation, or electricity.  A culture of violence towards women and children pervades with negligible access to justice.  Malnourishment, neglect and abuse are rampant.

Our Family Centre offers a ray of hope to some of the slum's most vulnerable children, by ensuring they are in strong and safe families, where they are encouraged in their education and their emotional and spiritual well-being, as well as being properly fed and cared for.

The Centre crucially provides a range of family strengthening interventions, especially for single mums. These include livelihood support initiatives such as tailoring and sewing programmes as well as cakes and bakes businesses, all of which provide vulnerable families with sustainable incomes, dignity and a sense of purpose.

Our team includes psychologists and social workers, who help the children and families cope with past traumas, especially young mums and victims of sexual abuse. We also connect them to churches and mentor couples, who offer additional counselling and general love and friendship.

Looking forward, we are passionate about further developing our vision of restoration of healthy family relationships, as we pray that our work will bear fruit in the lives of the vulnerable families of Manchay.