Sister Patricia in Peru

A member of the Loreto Order Sister Patricia now in Peru, used to live in Gibraltar, taught in Westside School and later became the headmistress of Loreto’s junior school.

In April 2000 Sister Patricia answered the request from the Loreto foreign missions and left for Peru on October 2000. Sister Patricia opened a school and brought the possibilities of education to a shanty town outside the capital of Lima. Without sanitation, electricity, or clean water it is one of the poorest areas in the country.

Sister Patricia’s school receives 154 children daily, which have to be fed and kept healthy. The government gives very little help towards the school if any, as it fails to help with teacher salaries, materials etc… It is with the help of other people and organisations around the world which Sister Patricia and the other teachers are able to put a smile into the faces of these young children and give them hope.

Whereas the school as a whole is a success, Sister Patricia has also helped individual students, such as a Hugo – a promising young artist from the school, for which Sister Patricia found a sponsor from Gibraltar to help him develop his dream of becoming an artist.

Sister Patricia, school staff, and the children are highly grateful for all the help received, and wish to continue in developing the school and the village.