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
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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
… to be beside the seaside
An experience way beyond the normal expectations of our children, thanks to the support we are able to give them! Everyone in our refuge in Peru was dancing for joy as they set out for their annual seaside holiday, camping out in a church beside the sea, and taking everything 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.
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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
Life goes on at our refuge
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 changing climate in Peru
The drawings above show characteristic vegetation from Peru’s coastal region illustrated in designs from Chimú pottery (approximately between 9th & 15th centuries AD). See a recent Peru Support Group article: ‘Soaring temperatures betoken Niño advent’ We are doing our best to be ‘green’ in our refuge: A secret garden in Continue Reading