Mission
Incorporated September 28, 2005 Community of Jesus Foundation. The organization was then amended to be named Bridges-Puentes Foundation. It was established to help in the development of the people of the poorest families in Peru and Latin America. The organization will develop innovative projects to teach the Peruvian people how to prevent illness and how to be healthy and stay healthy. Learning something about their culture and the ways of their culture will help them understand the changes that need to make in the matter of health and through education they will learn exactly what to do to make those changes and how to fit these changes into their culture.

Ancient Peru was the cradle of the Incan Empire. Today that heritage is reflected in the faces of the many groups of indigenous people who still dress in traditional clothing and speak the ancient Quechua language. The people of Peru are in great need of education and training. Since the 1980�s they have dealt with economic crises and terrorisms. The census in 2003 estimated that more than half of the population lives below the poverty line and nearly 15% of Peruvians can�t read or write. Our efforts in Peru focused not only on the rural poor living in villages outside of the Lima capital Peru, but also the budding population of urban poor who live in shanty towns without adequate housing, education, or health care in Peru and Latin America.

Bridges-Puentes mission is serving as a liaison between U.S and Peruvian Organizations with a common humanitarian mission to improve the lives of the least fortunate people of Peru.

Purpose
  1. To promote the importance of health, prevention of illness, and the value of education to understand the culture and how good health practices fits into that culture.
  2. Helping the people of Peru to be self sufficient. With more knowledge they will make better day to day decisions.
  3. Bridges-Puentes, will help in emergency situations
Activities

Health Education
  1. Imparting knowledge and skills in the prevention of illness through nutrition, good health practices
  2. How to fit good health practices into the existing culture and how to deal with illness when it does occur
  3. To elevate the importance of good health practice through mass media utilization
  4. To help the people of Peru to develop self sufficiency in decreasing the incidence of diseases
  5. Helping organized medical missions to Peru.
Cultural Awareness
  1. Cross-cultural exchanges
Education through technology
  1. Education through mass media utilization
Bridges Puentes Bridges Puentes will connect with the leaders of the communities in Peru in order to set up a center where Bridges Puentes can deliver presentation, hold classes, and conduct meetings dealing with nutrition, child health, prenatal care, vision, and hygiene subject matter. Bridges Puentes, will utilize existing mass media sources such as PAX TV, a non profit organization that transmits cultural, spiritual, health and education information in Peru.