vandenemiel@gmail.com Suri, Carla and Marisabel turned 15! In August, we celebrated, according to tradition in Peru, the birthday of three of the girls who turned 15! It is so wonderful to watch the children grow up year after year and see them turn into beautiful young adolescents. For so many years, Suri, Marisabel and Carla have … Read more
With great excitement, all the children looked forward to Añañau’s big Christmas celebration! This annual tradition could now finally take place again with the whole group on the project itself. A few weeks in advance, the Christmas tree was set up together with the children and the classrooms were beautifully decorated. And when the lights … Read more
After so much time we could finally go out again and have a beautiful day together in group! This time during our annual trip we hiked straight up from the project in San Jeronimo into the mountains to the newly restored ruins of the archaeological site of Raqayraqayniyuc at almost 3500m altitude! And afterwards we … Read more
Happy #SDGs Birthday! No poverty No hunger Health Education Gender equality Water Energy Work Industry No inequalities Sustainable cities Responsible consumption Climate action Life below water Life on land Peace Partnerships On the 24th of September we celebrated the anniversary of the Sustainable Development Goals, the so-called SDG’s. With everything that is happening in the … Read more
On the 11th of September we had the honour to receive Tony Selvaggio from eSmart Recycling and Omar Díaz from Guruexplorers at the project together with a group of young travelers via State of Unity bringing us a wonderful surprise. Tony and Omar had been setting up this amazing collaboration in the search of a … Read more
Are you an enthusiastic and dynamic person, do you like to work with children and do you want to get to know the Peruvian culture in a completely different way? Then volunteering at Añañau is for you! Añañau restarted her educational activities with children and youth at the projects on both locations in Cusco! This … Read more
Fundraising students Middle School of Zonhoven From 7 to 11 June, the students from the basic option ‘Economics and Organisation’ of the Vrije Middenschool in Zonhoven sold Caprisun drinks for their entrepreneurial project for the benefit of the project of Añañau in Peru. In addition to many applied marketing techniques, financial calculations and exchanged sales … Read more
Na een jaar van pandemie met quarantaines en immobilisaties en met de strijd van de Peruaanse regering en bevolking om corona tegen te gaan en zuurstof te verwerven voor patiënten in overeenstemming met de overheidsvoorschriften, komt er op dit moment een einde aan de tweede golf van de pandemie daar de besmettingsniveau’s afnemen. In het … Read more
We would like to introduce you our two new teachers Janette and Veronica! Both graduated as teachers from the local university in Cusco and joined the Añañau team with great enthusiasm. Janette and Veronica will assist the children of pre-primary and primary education in their learning process and guide them on the project. This alternately … Read more
A lot of the children we work with over the years have now become adolescents. As a project we need to adapt to their new reality. Puberty is a stage full of changes, fears, their bodies are changing. In this route, strengthening the connection between education and health, we prepared a sexual education workshop promoting … Read more