During our investigation process our group managed to identify two community problems which we later tackled separately. The first issue was that the Children’s Hospital used pig skin to treat burned tissue. When a patient arrives at the hospital reporting a burned injury, the treatment following involves the implementation of grafts on the wound. Grafts are patches of skin from another human or animal that are used to cover the scarred tissue so it can heal on its own and be protected from outer bacteria. Of course, these implants of skin, do not last forever and fall off after a given amount of time creating the need for another graft. The Children’s Hospital receives huge amounts of new patients at a daily basis and the demand for skin to use as grafts is huge. Because of this, the Hospital recurs to pig skin since it is very easy to get and is somewhat efficient. The real problem with the usage of this skin is that it lasts only six days before another operation is needed, which makes these more frequent. In the process of these operations, the patients undergo a lot of pain since no anesthesia can be used; this one being a liability to the patient’s weak body and exposed injury.

       The second community problem we identified was the lack of education on prevention of burns. Peru’s population consists of more than 29 million inhabitants and more than 44% of these are below the poverty line. Children and people in general, that form part of this statistic, with luck, get the most basic education they can, keeping out many subjects such as prevention of burns and techniques. This ignorance exposes them to life threatening injuries that could have been prevented with very simple education. They have no idea of the dangers in their kitchens, for example, the candles that give light to their homes or electrical cables that lay in the middle of streets. Therefore, their next stop, instead of being a brighter future, a better life, is a hospital and in the worst cases, death.