when you trek with apus peru 5% of your trek price is donated to Threads of Peru.

we support responsible, sustainable & ethical tourism...

"Every person must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment. Life's most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?"
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

One of apus peru's first projects was the support through the employment of a bilingual (Quechua/English teacher) in the community of Chaullacocha in the Lares-Ollantaytambo valley. the teacher works with the younger children who, as yet, only speak Quechua.

5% of your trek price is kept in trust for community projects like the bilingual education project in Chaullacocha.

Apus Peru recognises the work that the small Sacred Valley based NGO RUFADA (Rural Family Development Association of the Sacred Valley) did in encouraging the government re open the school in the community of Chaullacocha.

The school had been closed for five years due to a lack of resources, especially teaching staff that declined to live in remote and difficult conditions. In 2006 school reopened with 22 children in first through fourth grade. By 2007 numbers had swelled to 29 children studying through to fifth grade.

Apus Peru began supporting this project via Rufada Peru in July 2007. From December 2008 they have begun to fund and oversee the project directly.

Apus Peru recognises that one of the key ways to escape poverty is through education. As education is provided by the government in Spanish, the provision of a Quechua-Spanish teacher is necessary to enable the children to learn. Furthermore, positive projects surrounding their Andean identity also assist with their development of pride.

You can currently actively participate in the Chaullacocha bilingual education project by going on the Lares to Machu Picchu trek.

You can also actively visit this community by participating in one of our Christmas and New Year tours.

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Pictures from the community of Chaullacocha, near Lares, which we support through the part employment of a bilingual (Quechua/English teacher). 5% of your trek price goes to assisting this community and another like it. To visit Chaullacocha, contact us.

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