News from Peru

The start of the calendar year brings Summer to our refuge. Considering where we started in this desert landscape … …we have been able successfully to bring flowers, and even butterflies, to the desert …but apart from funding the direct costs of our children’s refuge we always need additional funds Continue Reading

At Christmas we were very happy to receive donations of food from a local supplier and from other local supporters, for distribution in the local community and to our families. We put on our annual Christmas ‘show’ at the refuge for the children’s families and for invited friends of the Continue Reading

Spring comes towards the end of the calendar year in our part of the southern hemisphere. Here the children are enjoying gathering some of our new crop of camomile, lettuce, radishes, carrots, chives and tomatoes and also having a celebratory Sports day and a fiesta to welcome Spring.

The Panamerican and Parapanamerican Games games were held in Lima in July-August 2019 involving 30 North, Central and South American and Caribbean countries The older children were invited by the British Embassy to watch a match between Peru and Costa Rica in the disabled sport ‘Golbol’ or ‘Goalball’: this is Continue Reading

As another new outlet for some of our donated goods, staff members took a long trip overland to the north of Peru via Piura and then inland to the province of Huancabamba in the northern Andes near the border with Ecuador to deliver warm clothing, shoes, blankets, and walking frames Continue Reading

In this website Project Peru shows you some of the positive things we have been able to do over the years, but we have no guaranteed income and while we have minimal overheads your support is essential so we can continue with this work in future. So please donate generously Continue Reading

As well as providing for our children’s refuge, which is our core activity, we try as far as possible to work in the wider community. This time a group of staff and a family of volunteers were able to visit older people in the community in the Ayacucho area of Continue Reading

Our garden was originally bare sand but now we are producing fruit and vegetables for our consumption, as well as trees, shrubs and flowers. The kitchen garden is producing amazing quantities of delicious cherry tomatoes, beetroot, peaches, passion fruit, lettuce, potatoes and more… and our first oranges! and the children Continue Reading

As part of our broad brief we try to give assistance in the shanty towns near our refuge. Especially in winter when, as can be seen, the hills around Lima are shrouded in a damp mist, our staff and volunteers have been able to distribute warm clothes and knitted items Continue Reading

This is part of our policy of helping in the wider community; we are surrounded by shanty town settlements and when we have the funds and can identify particular families in need we set to to construct small basic wooden houses; on this occasion a team of our older children, Continue Reading

The container with the annual cargo of donated goods from the UK arrives, is unloaded and stored ready for distribution as support for our children at the refuge and for other marginalised communities with whom we are in touch. Distribution of goods sent to Peru from the UK

The school year starts after the long Summer break, in March, as we are in the Southern hemisphere. We have high costs to meet every year with new uniforms to buy, and educational materials and books to provide. See our various pages on Education and Support To help us to Continue Reading