Project Peru

Registered Charity
No: 1049413

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Education & Support

All the children who are resident go to the El Dorado School, the neighbouring school - attending either for the morning or the afternoon sessions - and have been supported by Project Peru in the purchase or provision of educational materials, buying school uniforms, paying the obligatory annual matriculation fee for each child. This is a considerable expense at the start of each school year in March. Click here for photos.

We give the children additional educational support by keeping links with their teachers through the house parents and committee members.

In other ways the project concentrates on providing supplementary education for those children resident at the refuge who go to the local school, providing them with encouragement to read and study on their own at the refuge and giving them extra support where necessary. We employ two part-time teachers from the El Dorado School, one in the mornings, and the other in the afternoons to help the children before or after school with homework, to fill in educational gaps etc. Click here for photos.

We are also able to focus at quite an early age on giving the children some opportunity to learn some new vocational skills which would be useful in later life.

One of our volunteers has given them particular help with music and art lessons, and together with staff designed the costumes and decor for the nativity play which the children first performed at Christmas 2001. This has become an annual event.

But in general a number of volunteers both Peruvian and from abroad help to ensure constructive use of leisure and recreation activities for the children throughout the year.

Classroom facilities at the refuge

As part of our planned radical building programme we hope to include not only a larger class / homework /study room and a library, but also a computer room. Currently we improvise by using some of our other facilities.

Recently, we have received several donations of books and videos for which we are extremely grateful and are developing our library facility.

We have also have received a number of computers from the UK, and the children and staff are beginning to take full advantage of this.