Enjoy wonderful celebrations despite the growing suffering and turbulence in the world. Project Peru's survival depends on your generosity and on our outstanding, long-serving Peruvian colleagues. Working together in unity is the only way to confront increasing global poverty.

We realise that the challenging and chaotic state of the world makes the choice of a cause to support much more of a challenge, but for over thirty years Project Peru has shared food, clothes, shelter, education, health and fun with children from extreme poverty in the growing, vast, sprawling, sandy shanty towns of Lima, while offering economic security to our many Peruvian colleagues. We also work on practical social initiatives with the local communities, helping those struggling to survive. To this end we also collaborate with co-operatives in the shanty towns and buy some of their hand-made crafts on fair trade terms to sell in the UK.

Our refuge offers community and opportunity to children who have no future: we continue to send students to university, to enjoy our productive secret kitchen garden in the shanty towns, while our library offers to fulfil so many dreams. The children share workshops in theatre, music, dance, singing, as well as hairdressing, sewing, crafts and, of course, sports of all kinds, especially football and volleyball. Gardening and cooking are always firm favourites with everybody, the children and our great Peruvian colleagues alike. As every year we aim to distribute food parcels to those in greatest need and to celebrate the Christmas fiestas with everyone in our refuge, with many of the ‘third age’ community who are alone, and this year with local ‘street-children’. Without your overwhelming generosity, support and interest in our ongoing work in Peru none of our achievements would have been possible, both in our refuge, in the shanty-town communities, and in isolated villages in remote areas of Peru. So, we send you a huge and heartfelt thank you and look forward to hearing from you and to receiving your vital donation: gracias. Thinking of you with warmest wishes … y abrazos.

Fabuloso Navidad y un año 2025 de paz y alegría, justicia y igualdad