A social project located in Cusco, Peru, dedicated to providing alternative education to children, adolescents and adults. Aldea Yanapay intends to better the lives of the Peruvian people by giving them alternative ways of living and loving.

From biological monitoring to working in sustainable agriculture, this organization has three field stations in the Peruvian Amazon accepting volunteers to help with conservation efforts.

FairMail is a social enterprise producing fair trade photo products. The photos on FairMail products are taken by Peruvian teenagers. You see the face, name and age of the photographer on the back of each card. FairMail offers this youth photography training, a medical fund and guidance in making their future plans. The teenagers get 50% of the profits of the sale of their own photos to finance their housing and education.

Helping Overcome Obstacles Peru (HOOP) works with the impoverished people in the Flora Tristan community. Flora Tristan is a shanty town located on the outskirts of Arequipa composed of haphazardly constructed shacks which lack basic services, such as electricity or running water.

HOOPs current priorities are developing the Flora Tristan community by using strategic educational programs through which community members of all ages can advance their education, health, self-confidence and better their quality of life.

The Light and Leadership Initiative works with the community of Huaycan to bring quality education and empowerment to women and children in the area. The organization was founded in 2008, and has continued to grow in the community-reaching more children, empowering more women, and continuing to spread a love of reading and learning in several classrooms across Huaycan.

Malayeka is an empowerment center teaching English, nutrition and health, self-love, and self-expression. Our vision is to empower women and children through education and self-love.

Traveller Not Tourist is an organization dedicated to using tourism to support the local communities. By using both tours and volunteers, the organization aims to give Peruvians the chance to lift themselves out of poverty and believe in the chance of a better world, and then create it. This grassroots, supportive organization seeks volunteers for meaningful volunteer work with disadvantaged children.

Volunteers Peru is a small registered Non-Governmental Organisation based in the city of Arequipa in southern Peru. They are currently working on two projects. The first is a home for abandoned girls in Arequipa; the second is a primary and secondary school in the town of Tomepampa near Cotahuasi canyon. They are committed to assisting the children that we work with to fulfill their personal and educational needs, and to promoting cultural awareness and mutual understanding.