Orphanages and Infant's Homes

  Peru

• All Other Areas in Peru: 
Huancayo

Durations of Program: 1-2 weeks, 2-4 weeks, 5-8 weeks, 9-12 weeks, 3-6 months, 7-12 months, 1-2 years and over 2 years
Typical Duration of Program: 5-8 weeks

Description: These centers are located in the city of Huancayo. The children in the orphanage range from 0 to 17 years old and are placed in orphanage care for a number of reasons, including abandonment, protection against physical or sexual abuse, malnutrition, family poverty, and displacement from terrorism. With their turbulent pasts, these children are at risk to be uneducated, use drugs, enter into prostitution, become criminals and engage in acts of violence. Our work with these children helps increase their confidence and self-esteem, and gives them a better chance to escape poverty once they embark into their own lives outside the orphanage.

Volunteers help at these orphanages:
- Inabif: boys between 6 and 17 years
- Francisca Mayer: girls between 4 and 16 years
- Coto Coto : children between 0 months to 17 years

Highlights: Spend your time with kids in need and explore our beautiful country.

Qualifications: To be one of our volunteers you need to be 18 years old and have high school education as minumum. The principal requirement is the desire of helping others.

Cost in US$: from 150 dollars to 390 dollars

Experience Required: no

Typical Volunteer: Typical Volunteer: A volunteer of Esperanza Peru is a friend, who has a challenge to do her/his work due to our reality and the work that they do. Every day is new and different with many things to learn about the environment that surround them.

Age Range: from 18 to 55 years old

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants. This Program is also open to Families, Couples and Individuals

Participants Travel to Peru Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently

Application Process Involves:

• Written Application

Esperanza Peru's Mission Statement: We are a non-profit organization concerned with improving the quality of life of the residents of the Central Andes in Peru living in extreme poverty. We work in a direct and very special manner with children in the rural areas, as with orphans and abandoned children through the programs and projects focused on the promotion of comprehensive social, cultural, economic and educational growth of this vulnerable population.

Year Founded: 2008