Touch of

Love
• reaching out:
time
one life at a
OUR HISTORY
• A.M.O.R. Projects has sponsored a medical
team serving the populations of river
villages throughout Peru’s Amazon Basin
since 1999
THE PLAN…  With our experience of
medical work in the river
communities, we have
clearly noted that the
majority of health
problems

 Are intimately associated

to low levels of education
and extreme poverty

 Because of this, we have

decided on the creation of
an agro-industrial trade
school

 With the end to increase

economic and health
levels in said communities
 PERCENT OF POPULATION

Average Incomes
Class Monthly Income
Extreme Poverty ~$20 USD
Poverty ~$52 USD
Instituto Nacional de
Estadistica e Informacion
electronic resources
Middle Class ~$127 USD
Upper Class ~$527 USD
2003
NATIONAL INCOME OF PERU

Instituto Nacional de Estadistica e

Informacion electronic resources

2003 Statistics
 STATISTICS CARE INTERNATIONAL
 Population: 27.5
million
 Life expectancy at
birth: 70 years
 Infant mortality
(<1yr): 26 per
1,000 live births
 Under five mortality:
34 per 1,000 live
births
 Religion:
Care International electronic resources 2003 Statistics 81% Roman Catholic
1.4% Seventh-day
Adventist
STATISTICS CARE INTERNATIONAL
 19% of the
population doesn’t
have access to safe
drinking water

 4.98 million
Peruvians live on
less than $1/day

 3.3 million adults

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Care International electronic resources 2003 Statistics
THUS WAS BORN-

Touch
of
Love
MAIN OBJECTIVES
 Improve health status
through education and
medical services to the
populations in greatest
need

 Specific objectives:
 Found agro-industrial
trade school with various
specialties
 Establish Adventist
surgical clinic

 Both school and clinic for

the benefit of jungle
villagers with little/no
financial resources
AGRO-
INDUSTRIAL
TRADE SCHOOL

Escuela Agro-Industrial de
Ucayali
SCHOOL OBJECTIVES
 The school
proposes to:
 Improve
educational
opportunities
 Achieve increased
health status
through
Improved economy
and work
opportunities
 By means of

education, resulting
in better health
AREAS OF STUDY

 Agriculture
 FishFarming
 Dairy
 Bee Farming
 Chicken/Egg
Farming
 Mechanics
 Carpentry
 Electronics
 Electricity
 Bakery
SPIRITUAL ASPECT
 Present Bible classes
as
Part of the study
program in each area
 Promote sharing of
the Adventist
message through
Creation of a
permanent training
school for
missionaries
(optional for students)
LOCATION
 PERU, South America
THE LAND
 100 Hectáreas
 (247 acres)

Located at Km. 38
Fronting the main
road from Pucallpa
to Lima

 Owned by A.M.O.R.
Projects
BENEFICIARIES OF THE SCHOOL
 Young people:
 Regardless of gender
 Who have little
educational
opportunities due to
lack of economic
resources
 Who show
themselves capable
and promising
 Opportunity will be
given to study in
exchange for work
in school industries
EXPECTED RESULTS
 Students return
to their villages
to:
 Effectthe
programs that
they have learned
 This will better
the economic
levels of
students’ families
and communities
MEDICAL WORK

Clinica de Esperanza
(Clinic of
Hope)
GENERAL OBJECTIVES
 Clinic will function as
base:
Providing medical
services to those in
greatest need
Sending mobile medical
groups on trips into
zones of extreme
poverty
 Recruiting
surgical/advanced
care patients from
mobile trips for
further care at
CLINICA DE ESPERANZA
MOBILE LAND-TRANSPORTATION
2005 TOYOTA HILUX
MOBILE WATER-TRANSPORTATION
INITIAL SERVICES
 HealthEducation
 Prevention
Programs
 Medical Attention
 Emergencies
 Minor Surgeries
 Dental Care
PROJECTED SERVICES
 Specialty care
 Major and minor
surgeries
 Permanent
mobile programs
from clinic base
CLINIC SUSTAINABILITY
 Program to charge
for services
Patients financially
able to pay
 Program of national
and international
donations
To benefit patients
in extreme poverty
who lack resources
to obtain medical
care
BIRTH OF A DREAM

How We Came to Be…

PLANTED BY GOD
 For many years, Doctor Mathews
dreamed of beginning a program like
Touch of Love
 In June 2005 God began to orchestrate
circumstances and lives to make it a
reality
January 2006 the first team of three persons
formed and work/plans began
Such was born the project…
 TOUCH OF LOVE
A DREAM’S REBIRTH
 In the ‘80s plans existed to create a project
almost identical to Touch of Love
The missionaries Edwin & Pamela Baungartner
worked alongside the former Incaica Union and
ADRA to realize their dream
When terrorism erupted, they were evacuated
and the project was left at a standstill…never
completed
FROM THE PAST TO THE PRESENT
• Twenty-eight years later, this dream will be
made a reality under God’s direction
TOUCH OF LOVE
MAKING A DIFFERENCE… ONE LIFE AT A
TIME
A.M.O.R.
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