Dr. Tony Lazzara...

...is called by everyone ‘El Doctor’ at the Villa la Paz clinic. For 20 years that is what he has been to the children of the area. Working 15 hours a day, seven days a week, Dr.Tony has worked with malnutrition, tuberculosis and children's diseases you rarely see here.   His commitment is incredible. Here was a guy who had a tenured post at Emory University. He was running two high-tech children's wards in downtown Atlanta.  If you look for that moment in time when he decided there was another direction in his life, it would be a visit he made with a fellow doctor to Calcutta in 1982. Coming out of a restaurant, they saw a shape moving slowly under a dirty blanket in the street. At first they thought it might be an animal, but when they pulled the blanket back, there was a child, obviously malnourished and in need. Lazzara looked to get more involved with the poor and, six months later, a group of Franciscans offered him a room in a clinic in the Peruvian village of Chaclacayo, a few miles from Lima.  Wounds Of Many Kinds, in those early years, terrorists controlled the area. He found himself dealing not just with those suffering from children's diseases, but also the wounds inflicted by man.  He knew where his mission was and where his skills were needed the most. He hasn't looked back.  “I miss my family and I miss my country,'' he says. ``But we are making progress. ``There is still terrible poverty and malnutrition and all the problems that go with it. But this is where the Lord wants me to be, and I am content.''

Location: The Villa Paz Clinic is located in Chaclacayo a outskirt town of lima. An hour from Lima Downtown.  
Information about number of children/adults at facility: 30-60 children
Primary needs: The clinicl has 4 rooms for bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a small garden/patio. They also have a library and a rehabilitation room with a whirlpool.  Dr. Tony has many need in his clinic and we can collaborate with the following:  Remodeling the rooms and bathroom, building more rooms so he can receive more children and collaborating with supplies and money to pay for the operation of some of the children.

GIRL WITH TUMORBABY WITH EAR TUMORBOY WITH CLEFT PALATE