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Peru Treks & Adventure - Community Projects

   

Donation of School Equipment to Local Schools

  

Community Projects Completed: 2003 / 2004 / 2005 / 2006 / 2007 / 2008

        

Since 2003 Peru Treks has undertaken more than 110 distributions of school equipment to schools in the mountain villages. In the last couple of years we have mainly concentrated on helping schools in the district of Ocongate (Quispicanchi Province), a very poor region close to the Ausangate mountain. Communities include Upis, Chilca, Rodeana, Pachanta, Pucarumi, Andamayo, Ccoñamuro, Pinchimuro and Checaspampa. We also help schools in Tiracanchi (district of San Salvador, Calca Province) and in Amaru (district of Pisac, Calca Province).

 

When we visit a school we try to donate the following items to each child:

Exercise book (100 pages, square ruled), plastic folder, 2 pencils, pencil sharpener, eraser, ruler, packet of crayons (usually 12 crayons in each packet) or packet of coloured pencils depending on age of children. The cost of each packet is about US$3.50.

We also donate the following items to each teacher: boxes of plain paper (white A4 photocopier type), card of various colours, paints and brushes, ballpoint pens, encyclopaedia, books, dictionaries, educational posters and additional crayons and coloured pencils. Sports items such as footballs, volleyballs, volley ball nets, etc are also welcomed.

 

Since the equipment that we give to the children has to be the same for each child, Peru Treks mainly buys these items using profits from the company. If visitors would like to donate items then we would recommend waiting until you arrive in Cusco to buy items in a local shop. Our office staff will be happy to accompany you to help you make the purchases. If you prefer to bring a few items from home then we suggest that you bring items such as pencils and crayons. These items are less bulky than exercise books and paper which are best bought in Cusco. However we'll find a good home in one of the village schools for anything that you bring. Donations left by our clients and visitors to our office probably account for about 20% of our school equipment donations.

  

In many instances when our clients have brought sufficient items to donate (value of equipment over US$150) we can arrange to distribute the items to a specific school and send you a copy of the photos of the distribution.

   

We would also like to take the opportunity to thank all of our clients who have done the Inca trail with ourselves and all the visitors who have donated school equipment to make our community projects successful.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peru Treks & Adventure, Inca Trail to Machu Picchu Specialists, working to help the community.

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