Vaso de Leche

Vaso de Leche is a program that provides, literally "a glass of milk" daily.  The program is set up to  provide ladles of milk to mothers who bring their own container to the distribution point early in the morning.  Families are predetermined to be needy and the milk is distributed according to their allotment, so many ladles per child.

While Vaso de Leche is not affiliated in any way with Promesa Peru,  we hope they will be able to help us identify those families with the greatest need.  Tom and Maribel (Maribel is Promesa Peru's executive director) recently visited the office where the program is administered in the town of Patapo, Lambayeque Province.  They met Betty Bustamante who is the district manager for the program.  She administers the Vaso de Leche program for the surrounding areas which includes the city itself and 11 outlying communities   

Maribel talking with Betty in the Vaso de Leche office.