notforgotten.org

Redeemer Community Church is a partner with Not Forgotten in Puerto Alegria, Peru. Not Forgotten is a non-profit started by Tyler Fuqua and his wife Allison, who are a part of our Redeemer church family.

Not Forgotten is an organization that is compelled by the love of Christ to provide for the physical, educational, and spiritual needs of impoverished, abandoned, and oppressed people of the world so that they may improve their quality of life, find salvation through Jesus Christ, and be empowered to affect change in their communities.

In January 2009, Not Forgotten began funding an education program at the orphanage in Puerto Alegria to improve the level of schooling that the children there receive. The education provided by the local school is incomplete and insufficient. The current teachers must hike an hour and a half every day, both to and from lquitos, through thick and dangerous jungle just to teach in the school. Often times heavy rains (which are very common in the rain forest) prevent the teachers from making the dangerous trek to school. In order to improve both the consistency and the quality of the education the children receive, RCC funds the salaries for two teachers to live at the children's home every week. The role of these teachers is to augment the education that the children currently receive by giving after school tutorials each day, tutoring individual children in difficult subjects, and providing classes when the local school is cancelled. RCC and Not Forgotten partner to equip these boys to be competitive and qualified when applying for jobs, technical schools, and colleges.