In Peru, schools remain closed due to the pandemic. Children have now been out of school for more than a year and a half and are forced to follow lessons from home through the distance learning program offered by the Ministry of Education. Unfortunately, however, this program does not meet the needs of many children … Read more
Añañau takes great pride in helping underprivileged children here in Cusco, Peru. This pandemic has greatly affected these already poverty stricken communities, but Añañau is dedicated to doing all they can to bring positivity and happiness. At the moment the children are staying home for such a long time already because of the pandemic (already … Read more
A very long lockdown The past months have been hard and frustrating in Peru. The quarantine has now been officially lifted since the beginnings of October, but the country is in a big dip and the figures of infections are still not improving significantly. There is also still no question of reopening the schools. For … Read more
How we missed all those sweet faces! A few weeks ago, when the lockdown was lifted here in Cusco, we were able to make several home visits to see how the children and the children and their families are doing. And how good it was to see them all again!The children were also very happy … Read more
Peru, a country with about 32 million inhabitants, is one of the countries most affected worldwide by the effects of Covid-19. So far, the country is in fifth place with the highest number of infections and the battle against Covid-19 continues to be very tough. Today, July 1, we count 288.477 infections and 9.860 deaths. … Read more
Since last Wednesday, July 1, the lockdown finally has been suspended in different parts of Peru and luckily in Cusco as well as the numbers are improving very slowly and it’s getting necessary to resume economic avtivities. For now, the government still didn´t give green light for the schools to reopen yet and at the … Read more
Handwashing has taken a very important role in recent months. As one of the pillars of our work on health and well-being and being one of the Sustainable Development Goals, we focus on prevention activities with handwashing playing an important role in improving health, nutrition and education. With our ‘Clean hands!’ campaign, a mainly preventive … Read more
Añañau organized a second delivery of food parcels for all the children and families of the project. Thanks to all the support we have been able to put together a nice food parcel for a second time and hand it over to all these families whose reality is full of uncertainty and scarcity. This support … Read more
Thanks to all the support, we have now been able to hand over the first food packages. The families were very happy and grateful for this warm support. For each family, a beautiful package was composed of basic foods such as various packs of rice, pasta, oatmeal, lentils, oil, milk, canned tuna, biscuits and antibacterial … Read more
As you could read in our previous news message, we have been in social quarantine here in Peru for more than a month now. This situation affects many people, but of course it affects the most disadvantaged the hardest. For the families of the project, this quarantine will bring even more difficult times, because the … Read more