Project Peru

Registered Charity
No: 1049413

You can now donate to
Project Peru online by
clicking on the links below.
Credit Card

For further information click here or download our
Gift Aid form here

Inca Trail Sponsored Treks

From time to time people trek the Inca Trail to raise funds for Project Peru. Sometimes they combine this with a stint as a volunteer or just visit us at the refuge to see some of the work they have been supporting.

If you are planning to do the Inca Trail and would like raise funds this way for Project Peru you can make your own sponsor page online by clicking here. If you want to sponsor a trekker and support our refuge you can use the donation links opposite, email, or telephone +44 (0) 1483 576093 for details of how to raise sponsorship.

The Inca Trail
Peru's best known trek leads through the Andes above the Urubamba river, following (at least partly) the course of an old Inca roadway combining visits to archaeological sites, amazing mountain scenery and lush cloud forests, with the highlight of reaching the unforgettable site of Machu Picchu.

You could choose a travel insurance company, travelandinsure.com, that has teamed up with Trade Aid UK to support aid projects with the money raised through the sale of their insurance policies. Trade Aid are committed to helping people who are deprived of the basic necessities of life.

We are working in association with Chimu Adventures; so why not book your trip through them, and also see how you can help us to go on helping Peru and maybe see some of our work in Peru?

Would you really prefer to trek past poverty in Peru…or enjoy helping us to go on helping Peru? Fabulous Peru & The Other Reality.

The Inca Trail is very over booked at times and all permits can be sold out; there are alternative routes to Machu Picchu recommended by the Cusco Institute of Cultural Heritage such as the Salkantay to Machu Picchu trek as well as the Lares trek.

For other ways of supporting Project Peru through doing the Inca Trail visit Prolific Adventures.

People considering doing the Inca Trail and other treks in Peru might find it interesting to look at www.peruweb.org/porters as, though no longer operational, it was a project about setting standards for supporting Andean porters, their equipment, working conditions, health and safety, the treatment of porters, inter-relationships etc; it would normally be good to check if any group that you may be involved with can give some confirmation or guarantee that such guidelines etc were being followed. Much of the information on the website such as the environmental guidelines for trekkers and porter and animal driver welfare guidelines remains relevant.