Peru
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A land of extreme contrast with arid deserts and immense tropical forests bisected by the jagged spine of the Andes on its journey from Venezuela to the Southern tip of Chile.
Peru has become an extremely popular destination for tourists who flock to the Inca Trail and Machu Picchu, the highest lake in the world, Lake Titicaca, the Inca ruins of Arequipa and the tropical rainforest and cloud forests of the Amazon.
However, few tourists see the poverty that plagues this proud country. Desperate conditions in rural area, force Peru's youth to travel to cities to seek their fortune.
Community Building and Teaching Projects
Peru Community Building and Teaching project: A flexible project which lets volunteers combine building and teaching in rural Peru.
Since 2005 we have been based in the city of Cuzco, with projects in the city centre and villages in the more rural surrounding area. 3400m above sea level in the Andes mountains, Cuzco was once the centre of the great Inca Empire and is home to some 300,000 people. The city attracts a great deal of tourism – not least as the base for getting to the Inca Trail and the ruined Inca city of Machu Picchu - but the narrow cobbled streets and local craft markets still retain all of their traditional charm, and llamas wander past the internet cafes and bars.
Our projects in Cusco concentrate on the most pressing needs of the area, such as the need for rural development around the city and the lack of support to the huge amount of orphaned children in the area.
Most projects are based outside of Cusco in rural villages where little has changed in the last hundred years. People in traditional Peruvian dress still farm the fields with ox-drawn ploughs and donkeys are the main rural transport. Despite the income parts of the region receive from tourism, many of these small villages remain very poor, and there is a great deal of scope for projects that are of real value to the local communities. Past Madventurer projects have particularly focussed on providing access to clean water and improving sanitation and community infrastructure in these areas.
Occasionally projects are also based in Cusco city itself, helping the children’s homes and orphanages, which cater for abandoned street kids and those living in extreme poverty, to become self-sustainable.
For more information, email elainel@madventurer.com
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Flight paths from the UK to Cusco will terminate at Lima where you need to make a connection. This often means remaining overnight in Lima before your connection to Cuzco the next day.
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