About PeruKidz

“If we Each do a little, we can All do a lot”

Our Mission

Bringing hope through improving the living conditions of Perú’s poorest children and families. We accomplish this through outreach programs which address their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. Our main areas of focus are nutrition, bedding, and proving children with Christmas gifts each year. You can learn more about each of these areas of focus here. We partner alongside local churches in Perú to bring hope and healing in Jesus’ name. Here are some of the local congregations that benefit from your generous support.

Pastors Jerry & Betty Orrego – Church: Iglesia de Cristo el Camino / Rimac
Pastors Juan & Juana Silva – Church: CCM Palabra Viva / San Juan de Lurigancho
Pastors Jorge & Esperanza Santamaria – Church: Iglesia de Cristo es el Camino /Lima
Pastors Jorge & Esperanza Santamaria – Church: Villa El Salvador
Pastors Carlos & Jessica Monzon – Church: El Camino / Rimac
Pastors Elias & Ivis Bermudez – Church: CC Regimen Nuevo / Rimac
Pastors Walter & Clarisa Villajuan – Churches: Comunidad Cristiana Ancla / La Calichera
Pastors Hialmar & Dilcia Mendoza– Church: Cristo es la Palabra/ Iquitos
Pastors Carlos & Hilda Babilonia – Church: Melodias Celestiales / Iquitos
Pastors Emeterio & Otilia Babilonia – Church: Jesucristo es el Camino/ Iquitos

Pastors Ruth & Alvaro Rengifo – Church: Renacer – Cercado / Iquitos

Pastors Ramiro & Mercedes Sajami - Church: Cristo es el Camino / Iquitos
Volunteers Vanessa Herrera & Mariella de Herrera – Perukidz Streets of Lima Ministry
Pastors Dante & Liliana Salazar -Church: Growing in grace with Jesus / Flor de Amancaes
Pastor Anibal Peralta Guevara – Church: Iglesia Agape/ Iquitos
Pastors Walter & Clarisa Villajuan – Bora Bora Tribe / The Amazon
Pastors Juan & Miriam Saavedra - Church: Comunidad de Restauracion Familiar / Independencia
Pastors Jose & Jenny Saldarriaga - Church: Iglesia Evangelica Misionera vida nueva / El callao
Pastors Eleodoro & Lidia Cabello - Church:
Centro Evangelistico Cristiano / Mariscal Castilla-Rimac

From Our Founders - Jack & Mimi Meier

Welcome to PeruKidz! We’re so pleased you are visiting our site and hope you will stop by often if only to enjoy the smiling faces of the kids we work with.

Mimi and I started this 501c3 in 2005 largely in answer to a promise we had made to the Lord to help those who seemed to be the least in this world. We had traveled to Peru some years earlier to see Mimi’s family. Even though Mimi is from Peru, she hadn’t been back in a long time and what she saw shocked her and me. I’d never seen kids begging for food; never seen parents rent out babies for street vendors to use as a means of generating sympathy; never seen families selling candies in the street at midnight; never seen 12 year old girls drop out of school so they could care for their younger siblings while mom worked selling ice cream for a dollar a day.

So many things broke our hearts and thus our promise, to do whatever we could to help the least of His. Both of us quickly realized that we didn’t want to be a big ministry. Rather we preferred a simpler, smaller hands-on approach where we established personal relationships with the churches and individuals whom the Lord placed in our paths.

God has seen fit to grow our ministry each year, but not so much that we’ve lost touch with our kids and families and churches. Our biggest project is a yearly Christmas program that we coordinate with our partner churches. Each child receives a meal to help fill an empty tummy, a toy for them to enjoy throughout the year, a homemade Christmas card from friends and churches here in the states, and most importantly, a message of love from Jesus Christ to give them hope. When we began in 2005, we ministered to 137 kids. Last year PeruKidz provided Christmas to over 1500 precious children.

We Are Blessed!

Jack & Mimi Meier

If we Each do a Little, we can All do a Lot