TREKS TO MACHU PICCHU

COMMUNITY PROJECTS

Treks to Machupicchu is an home-grown company committed to promoting and organizing projects within the community in Peru. For that is that all people working at here work as a team to make possible to help to the less fortunate people in the communities around Cusco.

We decided to set up TREKS TO MACHUPICCHU in 2005 as a way generating a reliable source of income. This has allowed us to be financially independent as well as running a tour operator that we hope provides an example to others. To summarize, we make every effort to create a product that is competitive and of the highest quality, WHICH IS AUTO-SUSTAINABLE AND SUSTAINABLE OVER TIME.
Therefore we cordially invite you to share with us our culture, traditions, religion, and customs, with respect to our ancestors.

50% from our profits goes to develop and support economically our social projects. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to show you the experience of a lifetime in Peru.

AREAS OF CONCERNS:
EDUCATION: DONATIONS AND DISTRIBUTION OF SCHOOL EQUIPMENT
Illiteracy is very high in this area.  Almost all the adults are illiterate and the few young read and write with difficulty. That’s why many children don’t have the support and motivation from their parents to study and to make the homework. After no longer time the majority of them will desert from the school to work with their parents farming, and taking care of the cattle.
TREKS TO MACHUPICCHU believes that the key way to escape poverty is through education. As education is provided by the government in Spanish, the provision of a Quechua-Spanish teacher is necessary to enable the children to learn.
There are many children and young people that have never been at any Inca archaeological sites, like in Cusco and Machu Picchu, The children from high land communities are very poor and they do not have the possibility to travel there, even though they live very close to Cusco. For that we organize guided tours for students of many communities. With the purpose to allow our children to know and value our culture, and to be able to preserve and protect the Quechua language, customs and culture
We are collecting a small amount of material support, such as children's books, academic books, geographic maps, drawing paper, colored markers, crayons, chess, checker boards, ping pong tables as well as other games that help motivate youth to develop their intellect and interest in reading or scientific games.
We want to furniture a small library, including book shelves, tables, benches, and books.
We want to promote a habit of reading in the children, the youth. If children become better readers they will be better students and, afterward, better professionals, technicians, and businessmen. This we find to be true because reading provides a good change in children, youth, and the population in general.

NUTRITION: CAUSES OF POOR EDUCATION
Many communities are very poor due to its remote geographical location. Water treatment is also urgently needed. Many children are with anemia because the water they drink does not comply with the necessary health standards
With the income that we hope to generate we have plans to improve the quality of the drinking water
We have a mission to improve the health of the population, the educational system

MEDICAL ASSISTANT:
Pneumonia kills more children on the high land than swain flu

DENTAL CARE. – The water that our children drink on the high lands is running water from glaciers, lagoons, springs that doesn’t have a medical treatment with flour, calcium and others mineral that will help to avoid tooth decay. So then when they are still children they loose their teeth.

WE WANT TO MAKE LA CASA DEL PORTEADOR (THE HOUSE FOR ALL THE PORTERS WORKING IN THE INCA TRAIL)
Many of the porters are coming from different communities 1 or 2 days far away from Cusco, and they don’t have were to stay in Cusco, for them is necessary to have a house where they can stay as a hostel, to leave early on the next morning.

TREKS TO MACHUPICCHU IS MADE UP OF VERY ENTHUSIASTIC YOUNG LOCAL GUIDES THAT WERE BORN IN CUSCO, AND WE ARE ALL AUTHENTIC HOMEGROW

The Incas once a great civilization in South America living in cities likes Cusco, Sacred valley, Mahupicchu. Giving big contribution to the human kind with more than 3000 kind of potatoes. However, today they are seen as an “unimportant” people living far away because they were force out to leave their lands and go to live high on the Andes, over the 5000 meters above sea level (15000 feet)

The Indians from the high lands wearing their typical costume, red color ponchos, make of wool from Andean camels, leaving form growing potatoes and andean grains, still speaking the Inca language, "Quechua", doesn’t have the opportunity to go in the school, to learn how to integrate and be part of the new advance civilization and enjoy of the opportunities of tourism and other kind of industries. They always come in last place

The Indians of the Andes barely dare to look you in the eye. Centuries of suppression have destroyed their sense of self-worth. Indians who have had better education can better stand up for themselves