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Hope for a New Life
When Hugo Gurrionero was given a life-sentence to a maximum security prison he thought all hope for his life was lost. Read how Hugo discovered a new hope that helped him get through the next 11 years in prison.
When Hugo Gurrionero was given a life-sentence in a maximum security prison under Alberto Fujimori’s controversial government rule of Peru, his future looked very bleak. It seemed to him that there was no hope left.
A new sense of hope came to him just a couple years into his sentence, when he met the staff and volunteers of PF Peru. “In them I found a lot of love and affection in those difficult moments in my life,” he recalls. They gave him hope for the future by showing him his value and purpose as a child of God.
PF helped Hugo learn more about his new faith and they helped him to get through the next 11 years he would spend in that prison. Eventually he was released when his sentence was reduced. Since his release he’s been studying theology at a university in Central America via a scholarship grant, and just recently completed his first individual painting exhibition in a cultural
centre in the capital of Peru. “It was one of my goals when I left the prison almost three years ago,” he explains. He proudly invited the staff and volunteers of PF Peru to the exhibition, with whom he has remained in contact.
Hugo has come a long way from the dreary days when he was first imprisoned, and he is deeply thankful to PF Peru for showing him the Light that would turn it all around!
