News from Peru

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 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

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

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

We have continued to struggle against the odds over the past few years to overcome the obstacles faced by our staff and children at the refuge, while at the same time addressing the conflicting issues around the world which have all made fundraising for a project such as ours extremely Continue Reading

In spite of political uncertainty and the ever present threat of a resurgence of Covid-19 the life of the refuge reverted more to normality in 2022. We have experienced some of the more familiar milestones during this year, shared among the almost 50 children and young people we have cared Continue Reading

In spite of the hazards of the past few years as illustrated by some of the contents of these news items on Covid-19 and on poverty levels in Peru, as well as in our own regular News items on this website … Corona virus in Peru Peru at the top Continue Reading

As a welcome break from some of the old restrictions, the children at the refuge have been able to participate in a range of recreational and competitive sports around Easter time. This has included the ever popular marbles and volley ball, and a Sports Day (Gincana) with teams competing in Continue Reading

As the Covid-19 crisis eases a little with the rolling out of a vaccine programme nationally, the children have been able to visit appropriate relatives and family members outside the refuge, we have been welcoming a number of new children at the refuge, and all the children, of all ages, Continue Reading

More tasty and healthy products from our kitchen garden at the refuge … a barrowful of sweet potato and aubergines. Project Peru keeps growing, thanks to your support. And as part of our ongoing attempts to be involved in the local community we invited a group from one of the Continue Reading

Back to school in 2021? Instead, for the children in our refuge it’s still ongoing virtual education and ‘home schooling’. They last went to school in December 2019 because of the summer break till March 2020, at which point the pandemic started. And there is no realistic chance of schools Continue Reading

In one sense, at least! With your help we could do much more. Our kitchen garden is one small step towards improving our self sufficiency, and is an educational asset too. Our gardener here is instructing two of our boys in planting sunflowers. And we grow a variety of crops Continue Reading