This project will give you the chance to develop an approach on the vivential knowledge of rural life in the highlands of Peru. During the development of the project, volunteers will be in frequent contact with the geography and Andean demography, developing communal work with people from the community, children, youth and adults in typical community tasks.

The main aim of the project is to raise awareness of the lifestyle of the Andean communities of Peru, to live and share with the locals and understand a great deal of the personal richness of the Peruvian natives included in their cultural and geographic context.

- To teach youth and children the language(s) you speak (English, French among others) as well as to learn the native language of Peru - Quechua.

- To participate in daily tasks with families (sowing, harvesting, irrigation building houses, etc).

- To participate in the activities of the community (communal tasks, patronal festivities among others).

- To participate in the improvement of the economic activities of the community (agriculture, irrigation systems, etc).

Volunteers will stay in a house in the community. It is important to mention that every volunteer should bring a sleeping bag and if it is possible an air bed and/or a rubber one.

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200 euros. This payment made by the volunteers will cover the costs of lodging and food, as well as operational and administrative costs of the project.

The project will consist in allowing both the international volunteers as well as the members of the rural community to share the traditional ways of the Andean Peruvian communities thus enriching their lives. It is our hope that they can, by doing so, reach a sense of equality amongst all those involved in this project – the members of the rural community, the international volunteers, those responsible for the project and the local authorities.

Cajamarca, the capital of Peruvian Carnival, it is not only famous for that great party celebrated every year in February but also for its cultural richness that was kept through centuries, this in great part due to the identity that the Andean people could maintain thanks to the traditional activities developed in this region – from working the land to the way of celebrating any traditional festivity.

In this new world linked by new ways of communicating that have raised in the human being a greater curiosity about old traditions spread throughout the globe, Cajamarca is an appropriate place to stop and share with the world its ancient ways that are still so much alive.
In this sense the great potential of this region of Peru has been spotted by people from other parts of the world who are eager to know it, thus opening a chance to the setting up of residential tourism which could in some way benefit the communities that could host this activity.

The District of Uticyacu is located in the province of Santa Cruz, departament of Cajamarca at an altitude of 2312m. with a population of 2185 habitantes. A 14 hour bus ride or 1 and a half hours by plane from Lima.

- Social activities (parties, sporting activities, talks with school children and adolescents, hiking, camping).
- Picking and sowing green vegetables and root vegetables.
- Participation in the local traditional festivities.
- Communal activities (eg. Mingas, communitarian help between neighbouroods).
- Learning to cook typical food of the region.

Volunteers will stay in a house in the community. It is important to mention that every volunteer should bring a sleeping bag and if it is possible an air bed and/or a rubber one.

€200 euros. This payment made by the volunteers upon arrival will cover the costs of lodging and food, as well as operational and administrative costs of the project.