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Peru

  • Sister Patricia relaxes in a pool built over a natural hot spring in Chivay.
  • Christ the Worker parish operates a clinic for the poor, where Sister Patricia assists Dr. Fatima Luisa Pastor Aramayo (right) in stitching a bad wound in Lourdes Lugue Hayasi's hand. On left, Lourdes' mother, Filberta Hayasi de Luque also helps.
  • A women and her children attend a dedication service for a new communtiy center in Arequipa.
  • Sister Patricia Gootee joins residents of the pueblo of Coyorite in dedicating a new community center.
  • Norma Zuniga coordinator of the nutrition program in Arequipa, discusses with Sister Patricia the difficulty some families have in paying the modest fees at a community kitchen.
  • In the highlands, Sister Patricia Gootee jokes with a Quechua man she has known for many years.
  • Improving nutrition is one of Sister Patricia's efforts. In the village of Yanque, Quechua women cook a nutritionally balanced soup at a community kitchen initiated by the Medical Mission Sisters. Villagers bring their own containers to take soup home.
  • When school is out, Christ the Worker parish is a magnet for neighborhood children, among them Marco Antonio.
  • In Arequipa, Peru, Sister Patricia Gootee pauses at the confessional of the 400-year-old Convent of Santa Catalina.
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