Here she tells us about the progress that has been made in starting a new PEPE (the BMS-supported pre-school programme) in San Carlos del Sur - a deprived area, previously hostile to the idea.
"I'm going to pray that lots of children come and that the rain stays away," Susy said to me, smiling outside the church as I hastily pulled on my waterproof - San Carlos del Sur seems perpetually to be under a layer of rain clouds.
Cobbled together with planks of wood and sheets of tarpaulin, the half-constructed houses and huts of this ´barrio´ look forlorn under grey skies. It seems another world away from the high-rise buildings, tarmac roads and shopping complexes of Quito, Ecuador´s capital.
San Carlos del Sur is just one of many poor districts that has sprung up in the folds of the mountains, only a few miles above central Quito.
Generally, few people brave the weather and those that do are wrapped up under ponchos, hats and in wellington boots - not the ideal scenario for a morning of games for children.
However, Susy and the 20 other church members at San Carlos del Sur remained confident and determined. There was excitement about serving God and the families and children of their neighbourhood.
Fun and games
And the rain did stay away that morning when we set out, clambering along tracks and over rusted barbed wire, to tell local families about the church´s morning of activities.
Soon a stream of children gathered and followed us back down the slopes. Many wore rough, dirty clothes, older brothers and sisters holding the hands of younger ones.
