Registered Charity
No: 1049413
You can now donate to
Project Peru online by
clicking on the links below.
For information
about Gift Aid.
To
download our Gift Aid form.
|
Links
with the wider community
Developing new projects in the wider community
Las Laderas
The area of Las Laderas de Chillon
is one of extreme poverty. Las Laderas is one of the nearby communities from
which several of our children come, and we work in close collaboration with
the local parish and the social worker there. Women's groups here also provide
crafts items for sale by Project Peru in the UK. Over the past few years a
number of our volunteers have given their time helping out in the local
nursery school or in the soup kitchen, or with building work on specific
projects we have funded.
Leeds to Lima
Both Leeds University and Leeds Metropolitan University have established
relationships with Project Peru since 2006. In close collaboration with Project
Peru the students have raised funds in the UK both collectively and individually,
including through sponsored activities and events. Most have also walked the
Inca Trail to raise funds. During the academic
years 2006-7 year [repeated in 2007-8 and 2008-9] groups of students raised funds
and stayed at the Project Peru children's home (in Zapallal) for approximately one
month each . They were involved both in activities with the children there, and also
in funding and working on new building projects in Las Laderas, one of the nearby
communities from which several of our children come. There they have built, with
local supervision and Project Peru's support, firstly a temporary refuge for children,
single mothers and older people, then a nursery school, followed by a house for one
of our families. In 2009 they built a new soup kitchen and nursery in the upper zone
of Las Laderas.
The building project under way in summer 2009 with help from students from Leeds
Metropolitan University, building a new community kitchen and nursery.
Apurimac
Project Peru first took a consignment of donated goods in 2007 to the
Department
of Apurimac for distribution in this area of the sierra which suffers from severe
poverty. Members of staff, visiting the village of Sañayca near Chalhuanca for the first time, met with
the mayor, visited infant, primary and secondary schools, distributing clothes, a wheel
chair, zimmer frames etc sent from the UK and discussed potential future initiatives.
Project Peru staff and volunteers have made further visits and developed plans for a
potential new project in this area, supporting educational needs, and especially for the
development of facilities so that children in the area who live too far away from school
could have somewhere safe to stay during the week. Under-development in the past in such
regions has caused much of the migration to the capital. The project to build a hostel
there was carried out in 2009 by Project Peru together with the local community and
supported by funds and labour from both the Army Intelligence Corps and members of the
University of London Air Squadrons.
Optometry project
In 2008 we developed a new project in the community with a group of professional optometrists,
setting up temporary eye clinics in a number of community settings known to Project Peru, to
identify those most in need, to do eye tests and provide glasses. These examinations were carried
out in the refuge itself with both children and staff, in the medical centre at Zapallal, and in
Las Laderas. The group examined in excess of 1,650 patients and dispensed over 800 pairs of
spectacles during a 10-day period in November 2008.
Institutional links
Project Peru has institutional links with:
APCI; the Peruvian Agency
for International Co-operation:
MIMDES, the Peruvian Ministry
for Women and Social Development: ....and through them with
PRONAA, the National Programme
for Food Aid
|
