Huilloc is 19 km from Ollantaytambo (3,500 m.a.s.l.), in the sacred valley near Machu Picchu.  This is a community of 200 families and a total of 1,500 inhabitants.  The principal activity of the men is farming, and in the dry season they work as porters on the Inca Trail.  The women help with daily activities and preserve their unique and ancient tradition of weaving fabric of the highest quality, which they sell to travellers visiting their community. Huilloc is living culture. Their daily income is very low and not enough to cover their basic needs:  food, education and health.   So we are inviting them to eradicate the huge socioeconomic differences affecting this sector of the population, which, with their cultural wealth can participate directly in the development of tourism.

How can we help them?

• Health: an economic contribution to the Annual Health Campaign and/or the establishment of a health post.
• Education: by providing equipment for the school, materials (books, paints, pens, pencils, etc.) donations to cover the annual cost of educating a child or the annual cost of a teacher for the school.
• Nutrition: an economic contribution to cover the cost of technical aid to keep the 6 trout farms built by Lima Tours operating to improve the nutrition of the children of Huilloc, contributions to buy food for the fish and/or the acquisition of new fry. The purpose of this project is to make the fish farms into a productive and self -sustaining business for the community of Huilloc.
• Culture: by buying “Machu Picchu of Gods and Men", the proceeds of which go to cover the operating costs of the fish farms, health campaigns, improve the infrastructure of the school, carry out hygiene and nutrition campaigns, and finance the printing of additional copies to be distributed free of charge to encourage cultural development and identification of children with the cultural heritage of their country. By making a voluntary contribution so that the children can travel around Peru.

Pueblo Nuevo School, Chincha Alta: Education for those who have lost everything

We want to protect the right to an education.  Lima Tours has always been concerned about people in the cities connected in one way or another with tourism in Peru.  In this case we want to help the families affected by the earthquake that struck the south of the country by rebuilding their school and their lives. The children are being taught in temporary classrooms with no water, drainage or adequate hygiene. We want to give them a good quality education and rebuild 17 classrooms.

How can we help them?

By making donations to pay for:

• The school to rebuild one or more classrooms
• Provide water and drainage
• To provide a library
• Equipment for the classrooms
• New toilets for the children 

Caral: preserving our cultural heritage

Pacaya-Samiria: let's protect this National Reserve

Your contributions will help to preserve the environment, encourage respect for local culture and help towards social and economic development.