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Serving the Least of These

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The Mary Bloom Center is a medical and educational center in Puno, Peru.  It provides direct material aid in the form of medicine, food, clothes and educational scholarships as well as strengthening families by a tutoring program for children and by educating health professionals and young married couples in fertility appreciation.

Named for Fr. Phil Bloom's mom the Center promotes the values most important to her: faith, family and children.


Diego Apaza Navarro

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Because of their extreme poverty, the parents of fourteen-year-old Diego Apazo Navarro could not obtain medical attention for the young teen's debilitating eye disorder. Environmental irritants from brick making aggravated Diego's Keratoconus Actinic Keratosi, a rare eye condition causing degeneration of the cornea and threatening his eyesight. The Mary Bloom Center coordinated and provided funds for his diagnosis and treatment. In December of 2009, Diego underwent eye surgery and is now on the road to recovery.
Diego's Photo Album


Francisca of the Vincention Sisters of Charity

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Vincentian Daughter of Charity, Sister Maritza, director of the Puno orphanage for girls received an infant, sick with enterocolitis necrozante perinatal, a condition developed by infants who are fed cow's milk. The baby's mother died in childbirth. With aid from the Mary Bloom Center, the baby who the sisters called "Francisca" received treatment for severe malnutrition and now, at age 9, is a healthy, active and happy young girl. Here Francisca literally "hangs out" with MBC president Father Phillip Bloom.


Francisco Condori

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Francisco Condori, whose infectious smile never seems to wane, suffers from congenital vertebral paralysis, a form of spina bifida which has disabled his legs and reduced his kidney function, causing chronic urinary tract infection.  In 1999 the Mary Bloom Center funded his care and treatment which cost a mere $200 in Lima, Peru at that time. Today he is a thriving young adult, still with his characteristic smile.
Mary Bloom children, staff & volunteers march in celebration of 21st anniversary (July 11)
Desfile en celebración del 21 Aniversario como fundación peruana (11 de julio)

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