Welcome to our drinking water fountain at the refuge. In the old days we had to get deliveries by hose-pipe from the local water lorry and for years we have had to boil water from the mains water supply. Now we can have cool, fresh drinks at the press of a Continue Reading
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Music at the refuge
Music and dance are integral parts of life in our refuge and, whether practising or performing, either for each other or for visitors to the refuge, or at external events, they are a vital part of our children’s upbringing. Visitors can experience dances from the coast, mountains and jungles of Continue Reading
We do our best to be self sufficient
We do our best to be self sufficient but we have many mouths to feed! One of our most popular and successful crops in our kitchen garden is yucca. This is a crop that originated in the Americas but is now grown mostly in Africa, where it is also known Continue Reading
The art of volunteering in Peru
But you don’t have to be an artist to volunteer with us! We can be quite flexible! We can arrange tailored volunteer placements in our project for volunteers of all ages. You might like to work in our garden? or in our library? Teach English? & learn Spanish? Art? Music? Continue Reading
Rotary Clubs support our library
We are delighted to have had the support of two Rotary Clubs (Fleet and Hart in Hampshire) for our library … see their video… …. and also from the Edinburgh Rotary Club, with the purchase of new books, library materials and IT equipment. We are always pleased to have contacts Continue Reading
Some of our Christmas activities
The children are also able to share a hot chocolate and panetone, which has become a traditional part of a Peruvian Christmas, to help distribute donated food baskets to our children’s families, to our staff, and within the local community, and to entertain a local old people’s group who visit the Continue Reading
A fresh lick of paint
An enthusiastic team of volunteers from a major UK company working in Lima, several of whom are regular visitors to our refuge anyway, had an awayda’ before Christmas 2018, painting new lines for our football and basketball pitches, as well as painting the goalposts, the volley-ball posts, renewing the nets, Continue Reading
Donate to Project Peru and it won’t cost you a penny!
TRY Easyfundraising IT WON’T COST YOU A PENNY … ever! Support Project Peru for free when shopping online with thousands of popular shops and traders. There are no hidden charges and Project Peru will benefit from any donations you make, once you are registered. Go to: Thank you for your Continue Reading
Project Peru is growing and growing
Also known as cassava or manioc, yuca, which originated in the Americas,
Football in Peru-help us to reach all our goals!
Some of our young players-full of promise for the future! Please donate here via the website to make sure they score well later too!
Project Peru on The Giving Machine
You can now help raise donations for Project Peru this way. And it doesn’t cost you a penny! https://www.thegivingmachine.co.uk/causes/project-peru-266064 Sign up and shop at over 2,000 stores on-line to generate a cash donation for us.
Project Peru: a short video about aspects of life in our refuge
This video (about 4 minutes long, with its commentary in Spanish with English sub-titles) includes input from both staff and children at our refuge. Some comments about the film: “I think the video is fantastic. It gives a really good flavour of life at the refuge as well as the Continue Reading
Bringing Peru to your school
Still at school? Teacher? Parent? Can we help you to bring a new dimension to your school? Some schools have adopted us as their charity for a term or a year Some schools have built a Peru module into their curriculum; we’ve done one-off ‘charity days’ at schools (e.g. non-uniform Continue Reading
Scotland v Peru in Lima in May 2018
UPDATE ON THE RESULT OF THE MATCH: PERU 2-SCOTLAND 0 In the context of this match we were delighted to be supported by the Tartan Army Sunshine Appeal. To read some more of their story with photos see: Tartan Army Sunshine Appeal The Tartan Army were in Lima for the Continue Reading
Project Peru delivers the goods
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. We are able to distribute some of the donated goods from our annual cargo from the UK among communities in the high sierra that suffer Continue Reading