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A beautiful Christmas celebration
Despite the unrest and many strikes in Peru during the last weeks in December, we have been able to close well the year on both projects with a wonderful Christmas celebration for the children. The children don’t have the possibility to celebrate Christmas at home with gifts, a special meal or even a Christmas tree.…
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Closing the year with the mothers
On Friday the 16th of December we celebrated the last day of the year at the project before closing for the end-of-year holidays. This is the only period in the year the project is closed for the children and the mothers as most of them travel to their remote communities in the mountains to spend…
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Traineeships and cooperation with local students
Añañau does not only receive abroad students during an internship at the projects in Cusco, but also works together with several faculties/courses from the National University of Cusco. Students come to do voluntary work as part of their course to serve a local good cause such as Añañau’s association, and we also work closely together…
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Taking better care of the environment
After several months of coordination and many meetings, we started our great project at the Huancaro school “Caring for our environment for a better world”. Under the coordination of the Añañau team, Andre Lopes, intern from Brazil who took a master’s degree in Sustainability and the environment, the collaboration of the Communication for Development interns…
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25 Days of ♡ for Añañau
A lot of children and youth in Peru still don’t have access to proper education and training. Too often children and youth from deprived families and ethnic minorities are lost out of sight. This is what Añañau wants to change, in order that they also receive the same opportunities as others. As you know, our…
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Adolescents preparing for higher education
Throughout the many years that we have been involved in the project work of Añañau, we have seen many children grow up. In the group of the oldest children, many are already in secondary education and several of them are already looking ahead to the future. These students are now in the last or penultimate…
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Restart literacy program mothers
We are very happy that we have also been able to resume the participatory activities with the mothers of the children this year. Regular parent meetings were once again possible and the mothers now also come to the project again twice a week to take lessons themselves in the early evening. As you already know…
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Anniversary of the school in Huancaro
On the 19th of August, we celebrated the birthday of the primary school Luis Vallejo Santoni in Huancaro, where the second project of Añañau is located. Since 2018, Añañau has been collaborating with this local primary school in the deprived area of Huancaro in the city of Cusco. We were very happy that this event…
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Añañau’s annual field trip
Here you can see the atmospheric photos of our traditional annual excursion in July. This year we were finally able to reunite with all the children from both projects again and set out for a wonderful day with lots of sun, laughter and fun games! It is our annual tradition during the school holidays to…
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Celebrations of Cusco and Inti Raymi
After 2 long years of waiting, we were finally able to celebrate the celebrations of Cusco again with great joy, culminating in el Inti Raymi or the festival of the Sun. The days of May were endless as all the institutions secretly prepared their best costumes and dances to honor their beloved Cusco. Finally the…