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The Koe'ju building is strategically located near the Government Palace only a few yards from the shanty town. It functions as a church (where around 50 people meet each Sunday), dining room and a vocational training school teaching dress making, hair dressing, baking and computer skills. They even run a second-hand clothes shop and a small (free) pharmacy.

Caring for the street children of Asuncion
Rosemary and some of the street children

Robert and Rosemary Munro joined Calvary Chapel Oxford in summer 2005 and both have a heart for Paraguay, visiting the country (shown in purple on the map) whenever they can.

While on such a visit in 2005, they learned of a project run by a group of Christians from the Centro Familiar de Adoracion, a church in Asuncion, which is seeking to help needy street children from some of the poorest areas of the city.
Project Koe'ju, which means 'dawn' in Guarani (the native language of Paraguay), was born of a desire to prevent these children from falling into a life of drug addiction, prostitution and crime.

The project now works with up to 500 families from the Chacarita area to help educate and feed the children and to give them an appreciation of their value in the eyes of God. Since it began in March 2006, the project has grown to regularly feed up to 300 children 6 days a week. In fact, the growth has been such that leaders Luis and Olga Manfredi have gone full-time with both Sunday services and a daily 6.00am prayer meeting.

Chacarita - home to many of the children at Koe'ju

Time of worship and teaching before the meal. The children learn one bible verse by heart every week.

Ko'eju serves 300 meals a day 6 days a week.

Please pray that God would provide more helpers and sufficient finance to continue to grow this valuable work.