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The UCAM presented the award "Charity in Truth" Caritas of Peru, in recognition of his 53 years of work in the Andean country

The UCAM recently closed the 2009 edition of the Working Campus Pachacútec (Peru).

The Vice Chancellor of University Extension, and director of the International Institute of Charity and Volunteer of the UCAM, Antonio Alcaraz, www.ucam.edu / services / iicv welcomed the results of the activity.

"We exceeded all our expectations, both material and human," he said.

Alcaraz also praised the efficient and effective work of volunteers in the area UCAM possible by the cooperation extended by them in various initiatives and volunteer projects, and development cooperation in areas such as evangelism or Yurimaguas Pachacutec.

Antonio Alcaraz highlighted the improvements achieved during this year's Campus Work Peru www.ucam.edu / services / iicv / peru "The overall balance has been extremely positive.

We have seen growing Pachacútec Medical Center, from the standpoint of material and human, we have visited new schools of education, primary, secondary and special and we managed to significantly expand our radio evangelism.

Actually, we are very satisfied. "

Alcaraz said, "Our volunteers have been supporting human, material and spiritual, to the needy inhabitants of these regions through the development of various health education workshops, reading and writing, logistics, administration, communication, new technologies, construction, catechesis and Christian growth, combined with sports and leisure activities. "

Also notable in the context of this activity, the celebration in Lima Extension of the VIII International Conference on Charities and Volunteers, which included the award 'Charity in the Truth' to Caritas of Peru, in recognition of the intense work done in the Andean country for the past 53 years.

The symposium included speeches by leading figures from the socio-charitable, as the Archbishop of Arequipa and Chairman of the Delegation of the Institute of Charity and Volunteering in Peru John Paul II, Archbishop Javier del Río Alba, and the Archbishop of Lima and Primate Peru, Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, who spoke on the Charity and Volunteer through the prism of the Encyclical "Caritas in veritate '."

For his part, Antonio Alcaraz, analyzed the experience of volunteering at Catholic universities.

Source: UCAM