https://www.justgiving.com/page/project-peru-christmas-appeal-2024 You can pay online in £GBP pounds and also in the following currencies: $USD [USA], $CAD [Canada], $AUD [Australia], and € Euros. OR Please use the Donate button on this page Enjoy wonderful celebrations despite the growing suffering and turbulence in the world. Project Peru’s survival depends on your Continue Reading
Opportunities
Do buy our Peruvian hand-made crafts as Christmas presents
Look at our various webpages for details of what we have available: follow the various links from our Craft Sales pages. These are just a few examples here. Let us know, also, if you have an outlet where you could sell these original and colourful crafts. Contact us for details: information@projectperu.org.uk
Crafts sales
Please do contact us by phone or email any time to enquire about our hand-made Peruvian crafts, especially for unusual presents, or for any special occasions.
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
We do what we say on the tin!
We do what we say on the tin! We raise funds with minimal overheads and spend nearly all of it on our project in Peru. Look at our fundraising section to see how many different ways there are to help us.
Donate to Project Peru without costing you a penny
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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
Volunteering opportunities open up again in Peru
During 2020 and 2021 we were not able to welcome volunteers in our refuge in Peru but from 2022 we are now able to do so. We are very happy to handle any provisional enquiries or expressions of interest at any time whether from individuals, groups or families. Please contact Continue Reading
How to make a donation to Project Peru that doesn’t cost you a penny
Thousands of on-line traders and suppliers in the UK will make a donation to Project Peru if you choose to nominate us as the charity to support with your purchase. Register with them first, then any of the following on-line platforms may be able to support us this way! You’ll Continue Reading
Find a challenge, initiative or event of your own to support us
Do find a challenge, initiative or event of your own to support us this year! All ideas, large or small, are welcome. Go for it! Set up a fundraising page for an individual or group initiative, challenge or event, or a special occasion, or in memory of someone. With Justgiving, Continue Reading
For our supporters in USA & Canada
Through the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF)’s international network Project Peru is now eligible to receive tax-effective donations from US or Canadian tax-payers through either CAF America or CAF Canada. Project Peru is visible on the CAF America and CAF Canada websites, increasing our profile to international donors in those countries Continue Reading
Is it your business to support us?
We have had a great deal of financial and in-kind support from local, national and international companies over the years, and more particularly from individuals working in such companies; this has made a significant difference to our work. Other ways that businesses can support us are explored below in a Continue Reading
Exhibition at the British Museum: Peru – a journey in time
Marking Peru’s bicentennial year of independence, an exhibition at the British Museum in London highlights the history, beliefs and cultural achievements of the different peoples who lived in Peru from around 2500 BC to the arrival of the Europeans in the 1500s, and their legacy in the centuries that followed.
What can you do for us?
In spite of it all in 2020 and the first months of 2021… not everything was locked down or off-limits! 7 year old twins cycled 200 miles in England in a month, just 4 months after learning to ride. A team from a company that has supported us for years collectively ran, Continue Reading