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Belonging to the health, legal, educational and criminological fields, they have worked in cooperation in the most disadvantaged areas and in collaboration with institutions of the Andean country

“It has been an impressive month with a lot of experience and donation.

We have worked in very poor areas of Peru, visited centers for minors, made free medical posts for care with doctors, we have been in schools and worked with many families, and the coexistence between us has been very enriching.

At least once in life you have to know that other world, that other reality. �

With these words Antonio Alcaraz, director of the International Institute of Charity and Volunteering Juan Pablo II, summarizes the experience of the UCAM-Peru 2019 Summer Campus in which students and workers of the Catholic University have participated during the last weeks.

This year the UCAM International Chair in CSR has also joined the expedition, whose director, Víctor Meseguer, has highlighted the seminars and courses at the University of Lima, juvenile centers and the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights on social intervention with young people, corruption and conflict of interest, gender responsibility, etc.

The UCAM volunteers have carried out an intense work, with different initiatives and development cooperation projects, in the most disadvantaged areas of the Andean country, from which they have become impressed with everything seen and lived, but with the strong intention of repeating the experience.

This is what Paloma Rodríguez, a student of the Degree in Medicine, tells me as soon as I arrive in Murcia: “I come very happy, it has been an incredible experience.

We were all united for the common good of helping and contributing our grain of sand.

The contrast of the culture, of another way of life and of seeing that they hardly have anything in the houses, is incredible.

I will repeat the experience, if not in Peru, for Africa, but I will volunteer because it fills you a lot as a person. �

Among the work carried out by the expedition, the stays in Pachacutec and Iquitos stand out.

Isabel Martínez, a Law Degree student, points out that “we have connected with many people who have an unfortunate situation, with unstructured families who do not see the light at the end of the tunnel.

We wanted to convey that there is another way and that there is a way out of everything that happens to them.

Going outside you realize the poverty in the world and that we have to be much more grateful for everything we have. �

Students have also had the opportunity to perform extracurricular practices in different companies, adapted to their fields of study, putting into practice the knowledge acquired.

Highlights those made in the field of health, in two hospitals in the area.

Also in the legal field, and thanks to the agreements signed with the Peruvian Judiciary, UCAM has trained judges and prosecutors of the South American country in the field of professional ethics.

Binational Volunteer Meeting

It also highlights the celebration of the Binational Meeting of Volunteers, in which the Peruvian Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Vicente Zeballos, received the UCAM expedition, which had the opportunity to share views on the performance of this type of work with Peruvian volunteers.

Source: UCAM