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Casa Khuyana creates the first pediatric hospice in Peru and the third in Latin America. We provide pediatric palliative care and comprehensive support to children who receive a medical terminal diagnosis and their families.
A pediatric hospice is a home where pediatric palliative care and comprehensive support is provided to children who receive a terminal medical diagnosis, so that they can live this transcendental journey in the most loving and harmonious way possible.
Pediatric palliative care covers clinical, emotional, ethical, social, and spiritual aspects for the care of children with life-threatening illnesses and seeks to accompany children and their families on such a transcendental journey for them.
In our pediatric hospice we accompany them to go through this moment in the most loving and harmonious way possible. We create opportunities to bring life to their days, loving care, well-being, play and containment, as every child should experience.
In our pediatric hospice we accompany them to go through this moment in the most loving and harmonious way possible. We create opportunities to bring life to their days, loving care, well-being, play and containment, as every child should experience.
ABOUT US
Casa Khuyana is a non-profit civil association that operates the first pediatric hospice in Peru and the third in Latin America.
It functions as a home where pediatric palliative care and medical, emotional, social and spiritual support are provided to children with terminal medical diagnoses and their families.
VISION
A society where all children who receive a terminal medical diagnosis have access to pediatric palliative care and emotional, social, and spiritual support.
MISSION
To provide complete loving care, and personalized well-being to all children who receive a terminal medical diagnosis, promoting pediatric palliative care as their fundamental right.
GOALS
• To provide a home for children who have received a terminal medical diagnosis and their families, and to accompany them on this transcendental journey of life.
• To provide pediatric palliative care and medical, emotional, social, and spiritual support to children with terminal medical diagnosis and their families.
• To raise awareness about the importance of setting the mechanisms regarding pediatric palliative care as a fundamental right of children.
• To be a scalable model for Peru and different places in the world, so that children with a terminal medical diagnosis can live this transcendental path of life in the most loving and harmonious way possible.
WHERE ARE WE
Casa Khuyana is in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, Cusco – Peru, in the district of Calca at 9500 feet above sea level.
This place has not been chosen randomly, but because of its natural and wonderful environment of the Andes mountains. Various rivers descending from ravines, green valleys, harmony, peace, and the most beautiful sky that one can see.
OUR FOUNDER
Mónica Pfeiffer
Founder and Director
OUR STORY
Casa Khuyana was born from the vocation of its Director, Monica Pfeiffer, to care for children and their families facing terminal medical diagnoses.
Focusing on this population also responds to the absence of public policies that promote a pediatric palliative care system and a social, medical, emotional, and spiritual perspective during this transcendental journey of life.
The association was created in 2021, and in July 2022, began the construction of the first pediatric hospice in Peru in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, Cusco. At the end of 2023, the final phase of construction started, getting ready to receive the first children and their families very soon.
Being a non-profit civil association, Casa Khuyana is financed entirely through donations.
Children with a terminal medical diagnosis need you now.
WHAT DO WE DO?
Our pediatric hospice
Our pediatric hospice is the first one in Peru and the third one in Latin America. The word ‘hospice’ does not even have an equivalent in Spanish.
We can accommodate up to 10 children at a time - up to 18 years old - with a terminal medical diagnosis, and their families.
Located in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, Cusco, our facilities on 3300 m2 of land, provide an energetic and welcoming environment.
At Casa Khuyana all services are free for the children and their families. They are financed entirely by our association, so contributions and donations from the entire community are highly important to fulfill our mission.
Our services
We seek to provide normality and well-being to the lives of children who received a terminal medical diagnosis.
We offer
- 24-hour specialized nursing
- Palliative care
- Therapies and workshops for children and their families
- Transitional home
- Support for grieving families
- Spiritual accompaniment
Your support is crucial so that children with a terminal medical diagnosis can access pediatric palliative care as their right.
HOW TO GET INVOLVED?
Programs
Godparents
A godparent is someone who accompanies, someone who offers love and support to his or her sponsored children.
Commit to children who have a terminal medical diagnosis, donating S/ 111 (or USD 29) monthly, so they can receive the pediatric palliative care they need. and spend this last journey of their life surrounded by love and well-being.
Friends
A friend is someone who is always there to support us, someone who never leaves us alone.
Be a friend of children who have a terminal medical diagnosis, donating S/ 17 (or USD 5) monthly, so that they can receive the pediatric palliative care they need and spend this last journey of their life, surrounded by love and well-being.
A Thousand Stars
More than a thousand stars are always in the sky illuminating us with their light and brilliance.
You and your company can be one of those Thousand Stars that accompany children who have a terminal medical diagnosis, through an annual donation, so that they can receive the pediatric palliative care they need, and spend this last journey of their life, surrounded by love and well-being.
Contact us for more information about this program at:
The Flight of the Butterfly
Every time a butterfly flies over us, it invites us to remember the beauty of life.
You and your company's work team can be a Butterfly that, with every flutter, accompanies children who have a terminal medical diagnosis, through Corporate Volunteering programs that we at Casa Khuyana have designed for you.
Contact us for more information about this program at:
The 7 Superheroes
Who has not dreamed at some point in their childhood that their superhero rescues them from the dragon's fire? You and your company can be that superhero today.
Join this exclusive group with your company and be one of the 7 superheroes who accompany children who have a terminal medical diagnosis, through a win-win alliance between your company and Casa Khuyana, so that they can receive the pediatric palliative care that they need, and spend this last journey of their life, surrounded by love and well-being.
Contact us for more information about this program at:
HOW TO DONATE?
As a non-profit civil association of international cooperation, Casa Khuyana is financed entirely through donations. Thanks to our committed donors, we have managed to purchase the land for the hospice and complete its building construction to receive children with terminal medical diagnoses and their families. For it to open its doors and provide pediatric palliative care, we need everyone's collaboration.
SUCEDE (www.sucede.org) is our US partner for receiving donations. SUCEDE is a US based nonprofit with 501(c)3 status that channels donations to projects in Peru. SUCEDE INC is properly registered in the USA with EIN (Employer Identification Number) 51-0460145. Carolina Llosa is the founder, and her organization has partnered with wonderful projects here in Peru channeling contributions for over a decade.
To donate, you may do so through SUCEDE’s platform and indicate that you would like to contribute to us.
To make the donation via wire transfer:
Please contact your bank with the following information:
Citibank
ABA Routing number: 266-086-554
Account name: SUCEDE INC.
Account number: 3290256001
Bank address: 502 Brickell Ave, Miami, FL 33131
Include “Casa Khuyana” in the description field.
To make the donation by credit card:
Please, follow this link https://www.sucede.org/donate and click the option «Donate now via Network for Good”.
Include “Casa Khuyana” in the description field.
You can also go directly to https://www.networkforgood.org/donate and write «SUCEDE INC/Casa Khuyana»
in the field “Charity Name”.
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