Our aim is to provide long-term, sustainable help by improving basic education and access to water in small communities, "los pueblos jovenes", around the city of Arequipa, Peru. GVI and our volunteers work in government-run schools leading or assisting in classes where there is just one teacher in multiple grades, providing much needed assistance and attention for the children.

Peruvian Promise aims to unlock the potential of 16 young women to become leaders of their families, communities and country through the power of education, mentorship and service to others. Peruvian Hearts will provide these girls with scholarships and increased educational opportunities and while working to develop their sense of personal empowerment. Mentors will work bi-weekly with the girls and their families to ensure the families' ongoing support and advocacy for their girl's education.

La Casa de Panchita empowers 800 women & girls as young as 9 to escape 14 hour days, avoid abuse, attend school, and earn fair pay. We train, tutor, and give legal advice to domestic workers in Lima.

Awamaki Lab aims to empower and provide a stable source of income for indigenous women weavers and single mothers in Ollantaytambo through a fashion design collective that promotes fair-trade ethics.

Along the unpaved roads leading up to San Antonio and Calabaza, deforestation is widespread with many communities cutting down the forest in order to plant crops or create pastureland. Rainforest Partnership is working with the communities of San Antonio and Calabaza to help them keep their forest standing. The goal of the project is to develop the region as an "ecotravel" destination - providing the communities with diverse and sustainable incomes while also protecting their pristine forest.

This project's goals are very simple: plant 1000 Amazonian trees on deforested land in the Peruvian Amazon, and purchase 100 acres of rainforest to be protected forever.

Awamaki Health works within Ollantaytambo, Peru and the surrounding rural, mountainous communities. There are multiple aspects to our health program, however our disabilities campaign focuses on disabled individuals in this region to support them in their area of greatest need - whether providing them with a medical apparatus, corrective surgery or greater access to education.

We send volunteers & vets to work with the municipality and local Peruvian veterinarians to conduct free spay/neuter & medical clinic work in the Huanchaco & Trujillo region of Peru. In addition, we also work to improve the local shelter.

This project will organize and train a cooperative of rural impoverished women to be Spanish teachers. Though tourism is a powerful economic force in the area, rural poor women have little access to the economic opportunities that it brings. Meanwhile, despite the many tourists in the area, many of whom want to study Spanish, the closest Spanish school is 30 minutes away. As Spanish teachers, women will be able to participate in the tourist economy and earn an income to support their families.

VIDA ships fresh baby formula to Hogar San Camilo a clinic in Lima, Peru. With a wing devoted to caring for late term HIV positive teenagers.