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News from Peru
Day to day life at our refuge
Our refuge has a settled and familiar rhythm and is a peaceful haven in the troubled world outside our walls, both in Peru and internationally. The children are all at school and have visits to their families where possible every month. Several of our previous residents, now university students, are Continue Reading
‘Thank you, friends from Project Peru’
Apart from our main purpose, which is to support and maintain our children’s refuge, we try to do our best to support those outside our walls. In response to a request from the local soup kitchen most recently built, in 2023, by Project Peru (Working in the wider community) in Continue Reading
Supporting the wider community in Peru
Project Peru always tries to support a wider community beyond our refuge. Recently we were able to visit an isolated community in the area known as the ‘eyebrows of the jungle’ (cejas de montaña). This is an area that has fast been being destroyed – it is where mohogany grew Continue Reading
Delivering the goods in the Andes
At last Project Peru is able to travel again to isolated communities in the high Andes to distribute much needed goods and clothes. Sadly restrictions beyond our control, principally Covid-related, have prevented us for several years from making such journeys to villages that can almost seem forgotten. Our administrator, through Continue Reading
Trek the Inca Trail for Project Peru
If you are planning to trek the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu or one of the other recommended treks, such as the Salkantay trek or the Lares trek, why not try to raise some funds through sponsorship to support Peruvian children and to help us with our work in Peru? See Continue Reading
Back to school 2024
The photos show the children from our refuge in the desert shanty towns of Lima going back to school after their three months’ summer break. The youngest is three years old, attending nursery school for the first time, the others are primary and secondary pupils. The local school Colegio El Continue Reading
… to be beside the seaside
An experience way beyond the normal expectations of our children, thanks to the support we are able to give them! Everyone in our refuge in Peru was dancing for joy as they set out for their annual seaside holiday, camping out in a church beside the sea, and taking everything Continue Reading
Working in the wider community
Our basic responsibility focuses on support for our refuge for children. But from time to time Project Peru undertakes 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 our refuge is located. We Continue Reading
Our cargo from the UK arrives
An update on our cargo of donated goods. We have regularly sent at least one container a year to our refuge for the past 30 years or so since our first sailing in January 1992. Our very first cargo was sent through Furness Withy in Liverpool via the Pacific Steam Continue Reading
Life goes on at our refuge
Our refuge has settled into a familiar rhythm. The children are all at school again. Several of our previous residents, now university students, are adapting to the challenges of life outside the oasis that is the Casa Hogar [our refuge] … keeping in touch and often returning ‘home’ to see Continue Reading
The changing climate in Peru
The drawings above show characteristic vegetation from Peru’s coastal region illustrated in designs from Chimú pottery (approximately between 9th & 15th centuries AD). See a recent Peru Support Group article: ‘Soaring temperatures betoken Niño advent’ We are doing our best to be ‘green’ in our refuge: A secret garden in Continue Reading
World Bank sees poverty on the rise in Peru
The World Bank says that 1.4 million Peruvians may have fallen back into poverty during the course of 2022. According to its estimates, 31.8% of the population can be classified as living in poverty, some 10.8 million people. The author of a new report shows how in Peru the recovery Continue Reading
Back to normal
Summer 2022-3 in Perú marks a return to a more normal way of life inside our refuge after the Covid-19 years, in spite of the economic and political troubles facing Perú outside our refuge. This includes a welcome to some new children, a break from school between December and mid-March, Continue Reading
Delivering the goods in the local community
The photos show the delivery at our refuge of basic food supplies which have been a regular annual donation from a company in the UK, and which we are then able to distribute as Christmas baskets to the families of our children, to our staff and in the local community. Continue Reading