Who are we?

The Huchuy Yachaq Association is an NGO registered in Cusco, Peru. (No. 11049524, A0001). The association works in the neighbourhood of Los Hermanos Ayer, on the outskirts of Cusco, which consists of 240 resident families and an unknown number of rental tenants. In this neighbourhood there is a high level of poverty, with little in the way of guaranteed income. Most houses have recently had water and electricity installed. Many adults work long hours in the poorly paid, insecure informal sector and many of the children also have to work, usually on the street selling postcards to tourists, cleaning shoes, washing cars etc. 

OBJECTIVES

To contribute to the improvement of the quality of life and the huamanitarian development of children, adolescents and families in high risk situations and from the risk of social deterioration, in the area of Humano Hermanos Ayer and ajoining zones (Virgin of the Conception, medow, San Pedro etc).

Programmes

Education and Development

This programme aims to prevent the desertion of school to reinsert the children in the education system, facilitate quality opportunities to learn, deversify and develop social abilities, enrich their experiences and relations, and to access social networks and opportunites for development with equality. Promote family and community responsibility to support the education process.

 Family and Community

The actions of this programme aim to develop social abilities through diverse actors, and to emphasise the practise of good treatment to negate the experiences of failure these people have experienced and the backgrounds of violence.  We intervene to change the family dynamics in violent families, and strengthen the family ties to avoid the breakdown of family relationships. 

Strengthing of productive capabilities

The mothers and fathers do comercial activities for work that mean as a consequence of these long hours, their children are left alone at home for long periods of time. The training in productive activies, as well as having the goal of formation of a small business, is to make the labour more efective - leading to improved incomes and the improved presence of the parents in their childrens lives.