It was organized through our partner in Lima, Camino de Vida, but one of the truly remarkable things was the fact that churches and municipalities all across Peru cooperated in this event. We sent 11 containers to Camino de Vida 4 months ago. They also got Operation Blessing to come along side and provide anti-parasite pills to one million children through the same distribution network.

A new world record? It is hard for us to be certain.  But we believe this is the largest coordinated wheelchair distribution event ever. Not all were given out on June 10. We heard that 15 wheelchairs are traveling by boat 8 days into the jungle to the Columbia border. 

To give you a sense of the magnitude of this effort, below is a photo of wheelchairs in Iquitos.  Even though it looks like a lot (which it is) it is only one location in Iquitos, and Iquitos was but one of the 33 locations that participated, all over the nation! And please know that Camino de Vida wants to repeat this every 6 months so they can renew the anti-parasite inoculation.  As we also send 4 containers per month to Peru, this all adds up to 38,500 wheelchairs per year we are sending them! The need is so huge. Even at this rate it will take us over 15 years to satisfy the need in Peru.

Jitu offered these words to sum up what the trip meant to him:

I went on this trip to see God, hoping He would reveal Himself through this mission I have heard so much about. God was there to meet me. As soon as I arrived, He started to show me what He was doing, thorough the strangers I met who are now my friends, through the disabled I met who now lead a better life, and through this huge project of distributing 6000 wheelchairs and a million pills in a developing country in a weekend! When multitudes of prayers go up, God reveals His glory in a big time . . .