Our Boarding Houses bridge the gap between home and school for the indigenous children of Ccorca, Southern Peru. Our 3 Houses accommodate 66 of Ccorca's most disadvantaged children who previously walked up to 4 hours through the Andean mountains simply to reach school.
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Access to education in rural areas of Peru is notoriously problematic, and Ccorca is no exception: children from as young as 7 have to walk for up to 8 hours each day to get to and from school. Inevitably, they arrive too tired to concentrate and many give up on their education altogether. Academic levels are drastically low: just 33% of school children reach the national standards for literacy. This leaves children with little hope of breaking the cycle of poverty so prevalent in the Andes.
Our Boarding Houses give the most disadvantaged children in Ccorca a place to stay near to their schools. Instead of walking for an average of 737 hours every year, children can now invest this time on academic support classes, extra-curricular activities and personal development workshops. The impact so far is clear: in 2013 Marleni, one of our graduates, became the first girl in Ccorca's history to attend University. Subsequently, in 2014 Angelica also won a scholarship to University!