Jenny de la Torre Castro

Jenny de la Torre Castro (1954 to 2025) was a German-Peruvian physician who founded a foundation in Berlin that serves homeless people. She grew up in Nazca, Peru, and in 1973 began medical studies at the San Luis Gonzaga National University in Ica. A year later she obtained a scholarship to continue her medical studies in the German Democratic Republic. In 1992 and 1993 she led a project for pregnant women living in poverty, and she went on to found the Jenny de la Torre Foundation, known in German as the Jenny De la Torre Stiftung, to provide care for people without homes in Berlin. In 1997 she received the Bundesverdienstkreuz, the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. She died on 10 June 2025 at the age of 71.