Student workers from CASP become Pan American champions

We congratulate our CASP champions, Carlos Venturo and Javier Ruiz, students who work at COSAPI and the Universidad Científica del Sur (UCSUR) respectively, for winning the double gold medal and the single bronze medal for Peru in their categories in the Pan American Tennis Special Olympics in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. We also congratulate our professor and trainer, Jesús Palma, for the success and his extraordinary teamwork.

This tournament, organized by the Special Olympics, took place on the Club Tenis Santa Cruz courts from August 12 to August 17 under the motto of integration, demonstrating that the practice of sports has no limits. A hundred players participated, representing 14 countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, The Dominican Republic, Uruguay, USA and Venezuela.

The IV Pan American Tennis Special Olympics Tournament took place as part of the Project for the development of Tennis in Special Olympics Latin America, COSAT and COTECC. The project, begun in 2006 and dubbed “Tenis Somos Todos” took place in Bolivia with the great support of the Departmental Government and of businesses that shared the objective of using the sport as a means of social development for people with intellectual disabilities and for the community in general.

CASP celebrates its 34th aniversary dedicated to the education of people with different abilities and their families

Today, Tuesday August 20th, the Centro Ann Sullivan del Perú (CASP) celebrates its 34 anniversary dedicated to the education of people with different abilities (autism, Down syndrom, mental retardation and cerebral palsy) and their families. Several institutional activities have been prepared to celebrate this event, in which authorities of the San Miguel district (where the center is located) teachers, parents, students, and the community in general will take part.

Tomorrow, to promote our rich and varied gastronomy, students and parents will participate in a gastronomic contest to be developed in each classroom of CASP. Winners will receive a diploma and a surprise prize.

On Wednesday, August 21st, starting at 4 pm, students, parents and CASP specialists will take part in a passacaglia, a walking parade through the streets adjacent to the center. Street people and musical bands will be part of this joyful and colorful parade.

Centro Ann Sullivan del Perú (CASP)



Dr. Liliana Mayo, general director, founded CASP in the garage of her parents at La Punta, Callao, on August 20th, 1979. It started with 8 students, but at present it serves more than 450 students, 100 of which are employed in real jobs, and another 70 are included in regular schools.

CASP is recognized worldwide for its contributions as a model center of training, demonstration and research for people with different abilities and their families. Its educational model has been implemented succesfully in Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Spain, Panama and the Dominican Republic. 

Not long ago, by the initiative of the First Ladies of Panama and the Dominican Republican, Martha Linares and Cándida Montilla de Medina and their respectives governments have adopted the CASP educational system to be implemented at the Ann Sullivan Center of Panama CASPAN (established last year) and at the Center of Integral Attention for Disability (CAID), which will be established at the end of this year.

National Jury of Elections (JNE in Spanish) promotes the labor inclusion of young people with different abilities from the Ann Sullivan Center of Peru (CASP)

The National Jury of Elections (JNE) signed an interinstitutional cooperation agreement to promote the labor market inclusion of young people with different abilities from the Ann Sullivan Center of Peru in a ceremony held at its head office.

"This agreement is unique because two students of CASP will be our coworkers at the National Jury of Elections,” said Dr. Francisco Tavara Córdova, president of this constitutional organism.

This agreement states that two young students with different abilities from CASP will soon be incorporated to work in the electoral organism, and the Supported Employment Program of CASP will be implemented at the JNE.

Dr. Liliana Mayo, founder and general director of the Ann Sullivan Center of Peru, expressed that it is a historic day for CASP because young people with different abilities will be able to show their value as human beings and workers.

In addition, she added that this initiative of the JNE should be spread all over the world so that these kinds of electoral organisms in other countries follow the suit. "The National Jury of Elections has a big heart," he said.

Ann Sullivan Center of Peru (CASP) provides its educational system for people with different abilities to the Dominican Republic

The First Lady of the Central American country describes CASP as “a successful education model and a mandatory reference example for the services that provide for people with special needs.”

In the capital city, the First Lady of the Dominican Republic, Cándida Montilla de Medina, and the General Director of the Ann Sullivan Center of Peru (CASP), Dr. Liliana Mayo, Ph.D., endorsed a framework agreement of interinstitutional cooperation through which the Peruvian educational model of CASP will be provided to the services offered by the Dominican government and in this way contribute to developing the possibilities for people with different abilities in the Dominican Republic.

“For me it is an honor to endorse this agreement with the Ann Sullivan Center of Peru, an institution that constitutes a successful and exemplary educational model in the services offered to people with special needs” Montilla de Medina said after the agreement signing on July 26 of this year.

“CASP, as well as Dr. Mayo,” Mrs. Montilla de Medina said, “inspire a feeling of profound admiration and much pride, because they have much love, dedication and hope. We are trying to do the same thing in the Dominican Republic, and with their help, we will achieve it.”

The First Lady of the Dominican Republic thanked CASP in the person of their “enthusiastic and visionary director, Dr. Liliana Mayo, for the signing of this agreement that will allow our children to be able to be nourished by the extraordinary experience of this institution to change lives and give opportunities to families that thought their hopes for the future of their children with different abilities were lost.”

The endorsement occurred in the CASP Auditorium in the presence of the ambassador of the Dominican Republic to Peru, Rafael Julián; the president of the National Council on Disability (CONADIS), Wilfredo Guzmán; representatives from the Dominican Republic; and the Lady’s Committee, specialists staff, parents and students from CASP.

We know that the Center of Integral Attention for Disability (CAID), which is destined to provide for the care, education, rehabilitation and attention of the children that present special needs, is being developed by the dispatch of the First Lady of the Dominican Republic and it will be inaugurated at the end of this year.

This is the second country at the governmental level that has requested the transfer of the educational system of CASP. Last year, the First Lady of Panama, Marta Linares de Martinelli, did the same for the Ann Sullivan Center of Panama. 

The Association for Children and their Environment (ANIA) and the Ann Sullivan Center of Peru (CASP) teach children and young people with different abilities to take care of the environment

Thanks to the support from the Association for Children and their Environment (ANIA) and financing from Peruvian Supermarkets, the Tierra de Niños initiative (TINI) is being implemented at the Ann Sullivan Center of Peru (CASP), where students with different abilities (autism, mental retardation, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy) learn to take care of the environment.

The purpose of the "TINI" initiative, known as “Land of Hope” and carried out at the Centro Ann Sullivan of Peru (CASP), is to develop their students’ capacity to establish green spaces and care for them, so that they can do the same work in their homes, future workplaces and the community.  Emphasis is placed on growing edible and medicinal plants and host plants for butterflies and hummingbirds.

It should be noted that the “TINI” program from the Association for Children and their Environment (ANIA) was recognized by UNESCO in 2012 as an initiative to promote sustainable development in accordance with the objectives and priorities set by the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014).

For ANIA the work with children has a fundamental role, because it is during childhood that our values and attitudes toward life and the environment are formed, and a way of promoting these values is participating in the improvement of their surroundings.

Canadian Ambassador to Peru, Patricia Fortier, Lived a day full of joy along with students and parents of the Ann Sullivan Center of Peru

This Tuesday, July 16, the Ann Sullivan of Peru (CASP in Spanish) received a visit from the Canadian Ambassador to Peru, Patricia Fortier. The visit is a recognition of both the 34 years of work the Ann Sullivan Center of Peru (CASP) has dedicated to the education of people with different abilities and the great friendship that has united Canada and CASP for 24 years.

“It is really an honor and a privilege to be able to give a little bit of ourselves to this great institution, an institution that really is an inspiration for the whole world, because here there is love, support and hope,” the Canadian ambassador said. I can see it in the faces of the teachers, the parents and, most importantly, the children.”

During the visit, Ambassador Patricia Fortier donated computer equipment on behalf of the Canadian Embassy in Peru. This donation can benefit all students of CASP, who will learn how to operate a computer and will have access to new sources of knowledge.

“We live in a world filled with technology,” said Dr. Liliana Mayo, Founder and Director of CASP, moments before the donation was bestowed. “Our students work with it, and they need to learn how to manage it, and for this reason, the donation is very important. We needed this equipment so that our students can learn new programs before entering the workforce and so that those who are already working can practice the new needs requested by their workplaces. We are happy for this visit. It is a day of celebration for us.”

In addition, during her visit to CASP, the ambassador could observe the work done with families in the classrooms, the job training performed in the laundry service of CASP “La Solución” and the Distance Education program, which began thanks to a special connection to Canada through the funding received from the Rotary Club of Sudbury (Ontario, Canada) and from the Canadian Fund for Local Initiatives - CFLI. Since 2008, this innovative project has trained over 25,000 parents and professionals in our country and 14 others in Latin America and Europe, providing monthly training to make a difference in the lives of people with different abilities and their families.