To date, we help 3 schools located in the province of Cusco:
ASVIN School, 3,300 meters above sea level
ASVIN is the first school we supported and we still do. The school was created in 2007 to stop child labour in the Pillao Matao neighbourhood. We created the free canteen in 2009 to encourage parents to send their children to school. We built a new building in 2010 and doubled the capacity to 8 classes, created a library and a training workshop for mothers and teenagers.
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École Picol, 3 390 m d’altitude
This school has been built by the inhabitants of the community. We helped to create a fourth class in 2016. Not long ago, the school was situated in the countryside, close to Cusco. Now it is located on the edge of the city. Children in Picol come from families who left the countryside of Paucartambo to find work in the city. Parents and children learn to cope with urban habits.
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Huchuy Yachaq, 3,650 m above sea level
The Huchuy Yachaq association is situated in the Hermanos Ayar neighbourhood. The inhabitants and Marlene, a street educator, created the association to offer pupils a place of resource and education.
Since 2007, a nursery, a kindergarten, a library, art and homework workshops, and a workshop for parents allow families to envisage a better future for their children.
More information in the Cusco Express 69 dedicated to Huchuy Yachaq.
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Recently, we supported:
Anccoccala, 3,950 m above sea level
Located midway between Cusco and Titicaca lake, in an isolated area at 12960 ft, this project of school has been directed by Marlene (the founder of Huchuy Yachaq). Thanks to the dormitory, 12 pupils can go to school without having to walk long way each day. In 2017, in partnership with the organisation Les Catalans du désert, we financed in part the dormitory and the kitchen where diners and breakfasts are cooked.
In the isolated hamlet of Mayubamba, the school allows children to attend school without having to walk for miles each day. Life up there is punctuated by agriculture. Thanks to the school, the children of Mayubamba will hopefully have a better future. Kindergarten and primary teachers stay in the village for the week and go back to Cusco for the weekend.