From June 1964 to mid 1970 Britt completed her primary schooling at the Abraham Lincoln College in Lima. She was fluent in the Spanish and English languages at the time we left Peru mid 1970.

I was UNICEF�s Representative in Peru in-charge of UNICEF's work in the countries of El Cono Sur of South America (Peru, Bolivia,Chile, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay). This post required a good deal of coordination with governments, however, less direct intervention in individual projects as in my previous post, and during the coming 6 years I travelled between the countries of southern South America, negociating and coordinating UNICEF�s role of participation in the governments plans of development.

In the office in Lima I was ably assisted by several international as well as national staff members. The international staff had their individual responsibilities for each of the 6 countries, coordinated by the Lima Office, which was again supervised by a Regional Office located in Santiago, Chile. This Regional Office reported back to UNICEF HQ in New York.

WHO had proposed individual country projects of erradication of Malaria from South America and on governments� requests UNICEFjoined these programmes providing transport, DDT, spraying material, funds for training. And from 1964 WHO and UNICEF in unison with the respective governments chased and eliminated the anophelene mosquito from the walls of houses and huts in the entire South- and Central America, and treated all population groups in the zones of transmission with antipaludical drugs.

Also UNICEF participated in other programmes of social significance, such as primary education, community development and social affairs in the countries of the Lima Area Office.

It was a very good period of our lives and we enjoyed the work, school and people of Peru. We bought an appartment in a lovely quarter of Lima, and made many friends.

Tove�s mother came to visit us on several occasions and we made sightseeing trips into the Andes and visited the mountain villages of Jauja and Huancayo. We went to MacchuPiccu, visited the impressive ruins of the Incas, their former lofty castles in the Cordillera Oriental We also made a trip to Cajamarca in the Cordillera Central to see the room the Spanish conquistadores demanded to be filled with gold to let the last Inca emperor, Atahualpa, go free.

Tove and Britt went with me on several visits to Argentine, Chile and to Paraguay. I was particularly fascinated by Paraguay, a country with a very likable population and where UNICEF participated in an interesting community development programme in the area of Coronel Oviedo.

We visited the mighty Iguazu waterfalls at the border between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, had a look at the Chaco forests in the north towards Bolivia and enjoyed the capital, Asuncion with its two rivers Parana and Paraguay.