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Occupational therapy trainees in Añañau
From April untill June the following trainees joined our team and worked out a specific internship project for the organization. Sarah, Iris, Alysha and Nico are four occupational therapy students from the University college Thomas More in Geel (Belgium) and they came to Peru to do an abroad internship with the organization before graduating in June.…
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Meet Nieves and Griela!
We would like to introduce you our two new teachers Nieves and Griela at the project of San Jeronimo! Both graduated as teachers from the local university in Cusco and joined the Añañau team with great enthusiasm. Griela and Nieves work at a local school in Cusco in the morning and in the afternoon they assist the…
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Exciting internship projects
From January 2022, we received several trainees again from Belgium whom we guided during an abroad internship in the project. We are very happy that this is possible again after the difficult times we went through due to Corona and when traveling to Peru wasn’t possible. By collaborating with students from different courses, we can…
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Añañau winner 4th Pillar film competition
With the beautiful short film with the testimony of Valentina, one of the mothers of the project, made by Jeremi Vanderstichele and Arnout Debyser, Añañau won the 4th Pillar film competition! The 4th Pillar is an umbrella organization in Flanders for citizens’ initiatives for development cooperation that are undertaken worldwide. On the Day of the…
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Photography volunteer Patricio Fuentes
During the month of March we received the wonderful support of local professional photographer Patricio Fuentes. Patricio is specialized in audiovisual imaging and wanted to help the organization by doing interventions in filming and photography to make a register of the project activities and a video about Añañau’s live-changing work. During various days he has…
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Inauguration primary school in Huancaro
We finally got some great news in Peru! With the start of the new school year schools are reopening again after 2 years for face-to-face education. Also the primary school in Huancaro that Añañau supports is receiving their pupils again and proudly got inaugurated on Monday the 14th of March. With the organization we are…
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Vacation program 2022
With the start of the new year, at Añañau as well we started again with all the project activities on the 10th of January, hereby starting as well our vacational program that takes place every year during the months of January and February as it is the summer holidays here in Peru. The children attend…