Today was an early start. We were on the road at 8.00pm. The purpose of the early start was that we were going to drop into the night shelter at Remac before the boys who use it had left. This is a very dangerous part of Lima and the shelter is situated in this area in order to make contact with some of the most estranged within Peruvian society. The centre acts as a halfway house - a kind of bridge from the street to the beginning of rehabilitation. The shelter is run by three ex-street boys who are now employed on the staff of SU. Here's a picture of the shelter.

After the shelter visit I took the group to a shanty town on the outskirts of the city. This was an opportunity to explain where many of the street boys originally come from. It is from the many shanty towns that surround the city that children come to the city in search of a better life only to face the hard reality of grinding poverty.

Peru is a country of many contrasts. I guess I wanted to let the small group of people with me to experience these contrasts. Have a look at some of these pictures. The differences are startling