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Serving Alto Cayma
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This site is about the Mission to people in Alto Cayma, the settlements above the Cayma neighborhood of Arequipa, Peru. It is a site about Service and Need and how people from around the world are coming together to serve the people of God in this region. Explore this site to find answers...and ask yourself questions...
• Who is stepping forward to serve these people?
• Why is Alto Cayma important to God and to us?
• Where Alto Cayma is in the world?
• What are the needs in Alto Cayma?
• How are the people being helped and how can YOU help?
• When is the time for action?
• It is located at an altitude of over 3,000 meters above sea level and is 15 kilometers from the city centre.
• Besides there are also 7 villages on the mountains at 4,000 meters above sea level and around 75 miles from the Parish.
• The population is around 31,000 and the people are mainly migrants from mountain villages.
The migrants leave the mountains to find better living conditions in the city. On the mountains they lack food, health care, education, electricity and live isolated in difficult weather conditions.
When they reach Alto Cayma they occupy a piece of land on which they build a small room to be their future house. In the beginning life is very difficult. They lack all basic needs and in most cases they find themselves in worse conditions than on the mountains.