Very similar to our work at a government run shelter for young girls.  The Foundation spent its first 4 years in Peru, working and supporting an orphanage for abandoned and abused young children.  Getting to know these amazing kids changed and motivated The Foundation to work even harder to find support for the Andean children…

When the Pura Vida Foundation traveled to Peru for the first time in 2006.  Our hopes were to document and photograph the indigenous people of Cusco.  But we were introduced to a shelter for exploited and abused young girls.  And from that first day getting to know the kids living in that shelter we knew…