Sweet Dreams Program
We support this program by donating a percentage of our income.
In the winter of 2007 I had a vision before going to sleep. I was giving thanks for my daily blessings and I was feeling grateful for having a warm bed to sleep in at night. Before I drifted off, I saw a very sad child sleeping on the floor during a cold night. He was inside his house, but the floor was dirt. Then the vision was gone and I was back in my bedroom.
I was shaken to my core, and then remembered that we had helped a few weeks earlier, Grupo Peruanitos in Peru directed by Tito Pérez. He had just collected funds so that a poor single mom could have her little house rebuilt after a fire. She and her son now have a new little wooden house. I did not notice at the moment that there was no floor though. I went back to the pictures of the day that she received her new home and it was true. You could see them smiling from inside their new home through the door standing on a dirt floor.
I contacted Tito and he confirmed that all the houses in the poor communities that they help have no floors. Some houses are made of cardboard boxes and other discarded materials and children mostly slept on pieces of cardboard and blankets on the dirt floor.
These people in poor communities live in very terrible conditions. No electricity and no sewage or running water. They all live up on dry hills on land that nothing grows on do to lack of water and poor sandy soil. Nobody wants to live in that sterile land.
My husband and I decided that we will start a program with the help of Tito. We named it “The Sweet Dreams Program” or “Programa Dulces Sueños” in Spanish. The program is run from Peru under Tito’s charity Grupo Peruanitos. We do not handle any money. We just sent him a percentage of our sales and income.
Over the last 10 plus years, since 2007, we have bought 100’s of beds for these neglected children. Each selected kid receives a twin size bed made with wood by local carpenters, a mattress, blankets, sheets and a pillow. Lima, Peru has very humid and cold damp winters. A lot of these kids suffer from respiratory problems and other related illnesses. Each bed helps insure that there will be one less suffering child at night and will give the hope of a better childhood with less illnesses, a fresh start, better emotional development and most importantly they will have a secure and safe place to spend the night.
Tito once told me that a little boy was trying his new bed and said to his mom: “ Mom, this bed makes you sleepy.” This is so true because if you try to sleep on the hard floor it will be difficult to sleep. The words of this child touched me in a deeper way and I cried.
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