NEVADA BUILDING HOPE FOUNDATION
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Mission Statement
The Nevada Building Hope Foundation, (NBHF) is a USA based nonprofit 501 (c) 3 Organization with the IRS. Our primary mission is to improve the lives of the people living in Ayacucho, San Juan de Yanayacu and Junin Villages. These river communities are located on tributaries of the Amazon in the Peruvian Rainforest. We provide arts and educational programs, medical missions, women’s programs, and humanitarian aid to this remote and isolated part of the world.
About This Cause
Ayacucho, San Juan de Yanyacu and Junin Villages are remote river villages located on the Tipishka and Yanayacu Rivers, tributaries of the Amazon River. They are located in the Peruvian Rainforest on the boundaries of preserved reservation. These remote villages are approximately eight hours by speed boat from Iquitos City. The people living in this part of the world are some of the poorest in human society today. They live on what they can farm and fish with little or no income. These communities are isolated from the cities, they struggle to obtain all they need to survive. Due to the severe poverty of the people living there, they have very little if any access to the city and the modern world. There are 300 people living in the zone of Ayacucho Village. These communities have a government sponsored Kindergarten and a Primary School. In 2021, NBHF built the first high school in the area. Without this high school, the students living in the Ayacucho zone had no hopes for an education beyond the primary school level. As of March 2021, there are currently 35 students attending high school from three communities. In 2023, we will begin Phase 3 of the high school, constructing the last two rooms of the complex to house the 5th grade and teachers office. In April 2022, members of NBHF witnessed the high school students of San Juan traveling to the high school daily in canoes and small boats. This daily journey was perilous, long and dangerous. Between the fast river currents, water plants, and Amazonian rainstorms, something had to be done. In June of 2022, NBHF presented the high school students of San Juan with a large school boat and a year of gasoline. In March 2022, NBHF sponsored adult education programs in both San Juan and Ayacucho Villages. This program is teaching nearly 80% of the people the basic skills of reading and writing. The Nevada Building Hope Foundation, (NBHF) provides educational support to every child living in Ayacucho, San Juan de Yanayacu and Junin Villages schools. We service the children attending kindergarten, primary school and the new high school. We do this with an American based sponsor program. Our sponsors provide our children a school uniform, (slacks and shirts for the boys) and (blouses and skirts for the girls) tennis shoes, rubber boots, shorts, sports shirts for physical education, undergarments and backpacks, and school supplies. This program was designed by our Peru based board of directors, local principal, the teachers, community leaders and parents. Our Children Sponsorship Program services 110 students. All programs and purchases are coordinated and supervised by Director of NBHF Peru, Dustin Pinedo Gonzales. A trusted and valued employee of NBHF. Women’s Project Since coming to the village in 2014, Barbara has developed a lasting bond and friendship with the women of Ayacucho. NBHF has provided the women’s artisan group with shirts, sewing needles, elastic for bracelets, and hand drills, all the necessary tools for their craft making. The selling of these crafts, baskets, carvings, and various types of jewelry provide the women with an income they otherwise would not have. This new source of income provides the women with the ways and means to better serve the lives of their families and give them a stronger voice in the community. It is statistically stated that women living in the river villages along the Amazon suffer from domestic violence with a number as high as 80% of women subject to abusive husbands. The women of Ayacucho requested that NBHF provide the funds for the construction of a safe house for the women and their children in the village. This house will serve as both an artisan house for craft making and a safe house. In March 2019, the artisan house was built in Ayacucho Village and is now used as a women's retreat center and artisan house. In the summer of 2018, and in the spring of 2019 Nevada Building Hope Foundation was honored to have internationally renowned artist, Tia Flores, join us as we travelled to Ayacucho Village. Tia, conducted a ten-day and a fourteen day workshop for the women of Ayacucho and provided them with new skills and strategies for working with gourds and other materials naturally found in the area. The NBHF provided each woman in village, including women who do not make crafts with a pair of rubber boots to wear during the high-water season. In February of 2018, NBHF provided the funds for the construction of a women’s artisan house in Ayacucho Village. The house was completed in March 2018 and was immediately used by the women to co-operatively work on projects and to sell their crafts. In the summer of 2018, Nevada Building Hope Foundation was honored to have internationally renowned artist, Tia Flores, join us as we travelled to Ayacucho Village. Tia, conducted a ten-day workshop for the women of Ayacucho and provided them with new skills and strategies for working with gourds naturally found in the area. The selling of these crafts, baskets, carvings, and various types of jewelry provide the women with an income they otherwise would not have. This new source of income provides the women with the ways and means to better serve the lives of their families by giving them extra income and a stronger voice in the community. NBHF provided each woman in village, including women who do not make crafts with a pair of rubber boots to wear during the high-water season. Medical: Each October we provide a medical mission. Our objective to check the blood pressure, blood sugar and blood count of all the people living in the river communities. We offer classes taught by medical professionals in first aid and other emergency practices. We provide exercise programs to both males and females suffering from low back pain, a common complaint stemming from the hard physical endured by the people of the jungle. Dance, Arts, and Education For the past three years, NBHF has been presenting movement classes in the village of Ayacucho. The Gazette, the official journal of the Royal Academy of Dancing, London, England, published an article about this pioneer arts program in the Amazon Jungle. NBHF has received world-wide recognition for this program, the only one of its kind in the Amazon. NBHF received a generous donation of 100 pairs of dance shoes and assorted dance wear from Bloch Corporation and Judy’s Dance in Reno, Nevada. In Iquitos City, shoes were donated to the cultural dance students at Universidad Cientifica del Peru, presented to Anthony Fernando Abel Nunez del Prado, Dance professor and director of Reflejos Amazonicos.