By UPF Peru
One of UPF’s core principles is living for the sake of others. UPF Peru promotes this through a variety of activities, bringing medical aid and providing food and clothing to those most in need, building friendships among diverse people, and alleviate suffering.
Many Ambassadors for Peace in Peru are working constantly on various projects throughout the country. Here is the latest news from one of them who, working together with military personnel, visited a remote and almost inaccessible part of the country taking aid and utilizing his professional skills to help the local indigenous population.
Dr. Angel Alberto Araujo Huaraca, Dental Surgeon and Ambassador for Peace made his first project of 2024 by flying to the remote region of Rio Tambo where a tribe of 250 Ashaninca ethnicity live. They rarely have contact with the outside world due to the remote location.
The visit was coordinated with the Joint Command of the Armed Forces, the regional Government of Junín, the Provincial Municipality of Satipo and the Municipal District of Rio Tambo.
Due to the remote location they travelled by Military Helicopter, taking with them food, clothing, and baskets of gifts for the celebration of Mother’s Day 2024.
Dr Araujo provided free dental work for the community which is located in VRAEM: – (The Peruvian region VRAEM, the valley of the three rivers Apurimac, Ene and Mantaro, has long been stigmatised by the outside world as a “lawless” region overrun by “narco-terrorists”. It’s a description that holds some truth: about 70 percent of Peru’s cocaine is produced in the region.)
