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  • School reinforcement at Picol: catching up with the delay due to Covid

    School reinforcement at Picol: catching up with the delay due to Covid

    One of the latest projects created by Los Chicos de Cusco was the implementation of school reinforcement at Picol. For the two years of homeschooling lasted, we ensured teachers and pupils received enough support to keep teaching and learning remotely.However, last year, the director Yovana brought to our attention the disadvantages of home education and…

  • Trotabarrios, reducing social exclusion on the heights of Cusco

    Trotabarrios, reducing social exclusion on the heights of Cusco

    In Huchuy Yachaq, the emergence of activities and initiatives to reduce social exclusion is never ending. Trotabarrios is the latest program. Marlene, founder of the Huchuy Yachq’s association, will introducing it: “ We have gathered several great experiences since we launched Huchuy Yachaq. The project “Pequeño saber” started in Hermanos Ayar in 2007 which provides…

  • News from Huchuy Yachaq, end of April 2022

    News from Huchuy Yachaq, end of April 2022

  • Mama Killa

    Mama Killa

    The opening of the Mama Killa craft workshop: bags and accessories manufacturing process training for the empowerment of women in the Hermanos Ayar neighbourhood In August 2019, Los Chicos de Cusco received 15k euros from the Occitanie Region in France to help create an artisanal jewellery workshop in the Hermanos Ayar district of Santiago de…

  • Back-to-school news at Picol, May 2022

    Back-to-school news at Picol, May 2022

    Yovana, the director of the Picol public primary school we’ve been supporting since 2013, provides an insight into how the first weeks since the beginning of the school year on March 28 are progressing: face-to-face interactions and tutoring classes. “We’ll be starting a tutoring program tomorrow. Six hours will be dedicated every week on Mondays,…

  • From ASVIN school to university: the journey of two young men Los chicos de Cusco followed

    From ASVIN school to university: the journey of two young men Los chicos de Cusco followed

    Victor Abel and Victor Raoul are twins issued from an unprivileged family. Orphans since they’re 8 years old, they’ve been raised by their auntie. The brothers studied at the ASVIN school founded at the time our association was created and are sponsored by a French couple via us. Both sweet and lively kids that we…

  • Individual sponsorship permanency of October 30, 2021

    Individual sponsorship permanency of October 30, 2021

    Marlene (coordinator for the individual sponsorship in Peru) and Anne-Lise (in charge of the individual sponsorship in France) organised a meeting on Saturday, 30th October 2021. They could meet about twenty sponsored children and gave them some financial support. Children and parents came in turn for sanitary reasons.The sponsored children they met are still going…

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