Our basic responsibility focuses on support for the children’s refuge that we founded around 30 years ago. But from time to time Project Peru undertakes other practical, desperately needed initiatives in the vast, sandy shanty towns that extend over the bare, dry foothills of the Andes that loom over the area where the refuge is located.
We build simple wooden houses on stable bases and with sound roofs to replace broken down shelters that already exist, for individuals or families in particular need. And we are regularly in touch with local groups (mainly of women) who organise community activities and Comedores (shared dining rooms) and Ollas Comunes* (shared ‘cooking pots’) where for a minimum charge people in the greatest need can share a meal … in the latter case* adding any foodstuffs they have to the shared cooking pot.
This is the situation and terrain we are dealing with:
In June 2025 we arranged to move the occupants of two houses and a comedor out to temporary accommodation with neighbours, laid the concrete floors in advance of the arrival of the group of volunteers so that they could then advance with the walls and the roofs.
This year the Amoria Bond group of ten volunteers from UK, Germany, USA and New Zealand funded and built two houses and one soup kitchen, and are promising more in future. This time it involved working with two ‘maestros’ who we employed to prepare the bases and supervise the work; then the volunteers carted the materials up the hill, ready to assemble the walls and roof. The images below show the volunteers on their way up the hill and working hard to complete the houses and the soup kitchen … while enjoying every moment.
The construction phase followed.
The building work had to be completed in just four and a half days as the volunteers only had a short time in Peru.
They had started with a social day out with the children from the refuge and went up the Canta valley visiting Santa Rosa de Quives, the birth place of Santa Rosa de Lima.
We need your ongoing support and encouragement to make such initiatives possible. On this occasion our thanks go to Amoria Bond from Manchester and their volunteers.
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For information about volunteering in Peru see: Volunteers in Peru
For more on our work in the wider community see: Our work in the wider community
