Mid year update on The Shared Table Project, Lima, Peru. News on Kitchens, our Parish Community Centre, Workshops directed at empowerment and capacitation of women, and the Vegetable Garden.
One of the morning's presenters, a lawyer working with La DefensarÃa del Pueblo, addresses the group regarding legal protection of pregnant women.
A special participant accompanies his mother at the Conference.
About 80 women attended the conference. A follow up workshop has been organised to to provide selected women with the necessary skills to access the support services and also knowledge on how to support other women to access help.
Michael McKinnon is a catholic priest from the Diocese of Ballarat, Australia who worked with the Columban Mission Society on the edge of the city of Lima, Peru from 2004 to 2010.
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