The Lighthouse Family Centre serves children and families in an impoverished jungle community outside of Pucallpa. Abuse and trauma in families is common in Pucallpa, and our goal is to prevent this and help families break out of negative cycles and move toward healthy relationships.

As with all of our Care Centres, we offer some of the community’s most vulnerable children additional educational support, nutritious food, sports, life skills programmes and trauma informed counselling.

There is also a group for parents of the children we work with so they are exposed to some of the teaching that their kids hear during the week. After the teaching time, men and women go to separate groups for discipleship and skills training. Currently this includes sewing and baking projects to earn a livelihood and break the poverty cycle. 

We have even formed a partnership with a local health centre, which now provides psychological and dental services to our kids.

The Lighthouse Project also works hard to pursue justice for victims, while simultaneously influencing authorities and key legal players on how to manage child abuse cases. We also work with local churches, schools, communities and authorities to raise awareness about child violence, while training many of them, e.g. in trauma care and violence prevention strategies. 

Our vision is that this troubled region is free from fear and violence, with Godly family values in even the most difficult areas.