Home location in Peru

On December 10, 2004 our first two children arrived marking the birth of NPH International's eighth home, NPH Peru.

NPH Peru is currently home to almost 70 children from all over Peru. Our family comprises children from less than one year to nineteen years old, speaking languages as diverse as Quechua and Aguaruna. Our family, currently the smallest NPH home, is rapidly growing and developing under the careful attention of our loving and dedicated staff of employees and volunteers.

Until May 2007 our home was located in a rented property in Cajamarca, in the north of Peru, but on purchasing 15 hectares of land in San Vicente de Cañete two hours south of Peru’s capital, Lima, the whole family made the move south to be closer to the site of what will become the permanent home of NPH Peru. Here our children will be closer to some of the greatest universities and cultural opportunities in all of South America.

Our children perform a traditional Peruvian dance.

We currently live in Lunahuaná, a pleasant village 40km east of Cañete, in a former hotel complex with ample gardens and a small pond with fish and geese. The home, nestled in the mountains is idyllic and peaceful and the children and staff live together very happily. However, our administrative offices are located 45 minutes away in San Vicente, very close to the future site of our permanent home. This is due to a lack of a reliable internet connection in Lunahuaná and our need to be able to continually correspond with our generous group of funders and fundraisers.

Thanks to the support of our donors across the world, we are gradually realizing our dream of building a permanent home on our land in Cañete that will eventually include a clinic, administrative offices, therapy centre, sports centre, communal kitchen and dining room and several family style homes designed to accommodate 16 children and two caregivers each.

In the short term we are working hard to complete six houses, a water tower, sewage treatment system and electricity network that will allow us to move our current population of children to the new home in early 2011. Building work will continue in the future to complete the complex that could house up to 500 staff and children. If you want to support us with our dream to complete our permanent home, please visit our project page.