News from Peru

[To note: this News item and the report it refers to is dated well before any indication existed of the 2020-21 Covid-19 pandemic]. 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 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 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 and 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

As you walk through the streets near our refuge you may hear the sound of pan-pipes and singing, laughter and dancing feet as the children enjoy security and warmth, affection and care, singing, theatre and dance. Dances from the coast, mountains and jungles of Peru, accompanied by children playing the Continue Reading

We try to grow some of our own food in our kitchen garden but with over 50 children plus staff to feed every day we need our local market too. You can also read one of our previous volunteer’s story about her visit to the market, where we go every Continue Reading

Pan y dignidad! We have substantial numbers of our own children and staff to feed. We try to increase our self-sufficiency through our kitchen garden. See A secret garden in the shanty towns We use the local market. You can read one of our volunteer’s memories of our local market where we Continue Reading

Volunteers! Whether it’s enjoying the facilities we can offer, building or maintenance works at the refuge, establishing our kitchen garden, or improvising while building in the shanty towns it’s adelante y arriba all the way! If you can, fit in some equally memorable travelling too! WITH YOUR HELP WE CAN REACH EVEN Continue Reading

One of our regular activities during each Peruvian summer is to give the children and staff, and some of their children, a holiday by the sea which is for all of them an unforgettable experience; we have been invited for many years to stay near Casma, north of Lima. A Continue Reading

Our staff with some of the children visit some of the poorest local shanty town communities after Christmas to donate food parcels. Thanks to all who have contributed to our Christmas appeals each year, which has made all this possible.

That’s what it seems like at times but even to entertain one child can cost a lot … and we have over 50! So anything you can do in a variety of ways to support us would be a big bonus! See some options here: make a direct donation via Continue Reading