Providing Safe and Clean Water in Peru

Dear Supporters,

The Piuray-Ccorimarca micro basin gives more than 40% of its water to the city of Cusco. Unfortunately, the mass tourism happening in Cusco has stressing this vital resource not only for the city but for the whole Chinchero district where our volunteers work. Also, the plans to build an international airport in Chinchero is taking away some of the water resources in this area. Our efforts to support water on this area and improve the resources have proven to be the right path. 

At the Pongobamba School, we have continued to work on the greenhouse we built with GVI volunteers. All three levels at the school, kindergarten, primary and secondary schools have been working on their spaces in order to start growing nutritious food that will also preserve the environment and our water sources. 

We partnered up with the local government of Chinchero and our main partner CBC, to contribute towards environmental education workshops in schools, not only in the Piuray microb-basin but also in the main city of Chinchero, that will help preserve the environment and the water around the Piuray micro-basin. We mainly taught about organic and inorganic differences as well as compost, all these outcomes will help preserve water and the organic procedures the communities still practice. 

As part of these workshops, there was a final event of recycling where students showed their best outfits made from recycled material in order to create awareness of environmental conservation and how the mistreatment of garbage can hurt our water sources.  

Once again, a massive thank you to our generous donors for your ongoing support during 2019!

With Gratitude,

Peru Water

Dear Supporters,

During the last few months we have worked on three main projects in order to preserve water sources or to improve the ones around the Piuray-Ccorimarca basin. A group of 16 volunteers worked for 5 weeks on the fencing of the Media Luna Wetland at Valle Chosica community. 

The Media Luna Wetland is a very important resource for the Valle Chosica community, unfortunately was full of contaminated material that was leaving with no oxygen the area. Also this resource is being used for agriculture and cattle raising, leading to a full vicious circle of contamination for the whole community. GVI worked tiresly in order to fence the wetland so the animals will not pass that easily to use the water, now they only used it near the three doors, also volunteers clean up as much algae possible, this will lead more room for oxygen on the wetland.

At the Pongobamba School, volunteers built a greenhouse and helped with the improvement of terraces. The greenhouse will function as a centre of knowledge with a focus on environmental education and preservation of water. The main idea is to start planting native plants that will preserve more water for the environment and start decreasing the planting of exotic plants such as eucalyptus that is detrimental for the environment on Chinchero. 

We have continued the work at Pongobamba School with environmental education, bringing more workshops to children and teaching them about the importance of their resources around their communities. They have learnt about compost, differences between organic and inorganic and how to begin the work at their greenhouse. 

We have also supported a tree nursery at Valle Chosica community. Tree nursery help getting plants to grow until they are ready to go the mountains and start forestating all this community. As well as in Pongobamba, the idea is to start planting native plants and plants that can potentially add on the water resources. Native plants help with regulating the winds, weather and improving the overall environment of this area. This is a great resource to manage water sources. 

We will continue to work with the outcomes of these projects in order to continue our objective of the full preservation of the whole Piuray-CCorimarca microbasin. 

Thank you all for your continued support!

Peru Water