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Some bright and original ideas for your Christmas shopping?
Do look at the various pages on our website to see some of our brightly coloured hand-made Peruvian crafts.
Orders for this year’s Project Peru Christmas cards
To order from our selection of original hand-made Christmas cards please make a note of the reference number you see below each image on Christmas Cards made in Las Laderas where there are many more designs and fuller details. Cards cost £3 each plus any postage. Nothing to pay for Continue Reading
All the better to see with
In August 2025 Project Peru hosted a second visit by the Amigos Eye Care group from the Pacific University College of Optometry, Oregon, USA. See Amigos Eye Care. One of their groups had previously visited the project in 2016. The group consisted of three qualified optometrists and nine students from the US Continue Reading
Building in the local community
Our basic responsibility focuses on support for the children’s refuge that we founded around 30 years ago. But from time to time Project Peru undertakes other practical, desperately needed initiatives in the vast, sandy shanty towns that extend over the bare, dry foothills of the Andes that loom over the Continue Reading
Our crafts sales
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 below. You can buy our Peruvian crafts at any time of the year. Let us know, also, if you have an outlet where Continue Reading
Onwards and upwards
The north coast of Peru has suffered recently from extensive damage from high winds, waves and flooding so instead of our traditional summer expedition to the beach in Casma our teenage residents had a different experience. We arranged a trip to Rupac which is often referred to as ‘The Machu Continue Reading
Project Peru is still growing …
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. Here we grow a wide variety of fruit and vegetables, give employment, and involve the children in this work Continue Reading
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
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.
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