Kincorth Academy trip to Peru 2005

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The overall objective is to provide the Youth Participants with a Global Perspective on issues of Homelessness / Poverty and to investigate Medical and Emotional Preventative work in one of the most delicate ecological areas of the world. This is in accord with the Scottish Executives aims in its desire that education should provide a Global perspective ( see bibliography) This objective will be achieved by a research programme with three aims.

AIM 1 :

To visit the work of Union Biblica Peru, who work amongst Street Children in Peru

We shall investigate how Urban and Rural poverty is being tackled by local people through micro development industries with Street Children in the Centres run by Union Biblica.

We shall visit the Street Kids centres in Kawai ( 90 km south of Lima) Centro Girasoles ( the Street Boy Centre in Lima, and the Street Work amongst Children and young people in Iquitos Amazonia

Individual projects we shall see at first hand will include,
LIMA : The New Bakery , (opened late 2004 funded by donations from Scotland)
Casa Girasoles , learning how street boys are cared for and given dignity and respect
We shall participate in a drama which tells the story of the Street Boy written and
performed by them themselves .

Visit to Shanti Town to learn form those who live there what drew them to the city of
Lima

IQUITOS: The Water Rebottling Plant , a micro development site which provides work
employment and cheap fresh pure water for the city.

Casa de Los Tigres: Street Boys grow up. We shall see how Union Biblica
addresses the long term issue of homelessness amongst young men by providing a
home and educational / work opportunities.

Puerto Belen. 80.000 people living on the banks of the Amazon River in Iquitos in
squalor and poverty. We shall visit the newly opened medical facility funded by
Loyds TSB and the Vine Trust Bo’ness in 2005.

Puerto Alegria A visit overnight to the orphanage on the Itaya River 45 minutes by speedboat from Iquitos, where the most damaged young children live.

AIM 2
To Visit the Medical ship Amazon Hope on the Amazon River in Upper Peru,

We shall see how primary medical and dental care is being offered free to indigenous tribes on the Amazon ( this is provided by Union Biblical Del Peru with the full cooperation of the Regional Government of Loreto, in Amazonia and the National Government in Lima, where the Presidents wife is currently an Advisor to the project) The last estimate was some 7,000 people had received such help since 2002. Plans for a project for up to 100,000 people is in hand.

We hope to travel on the Amazon Hope on its way to take medical care to the Ocaina Indians ( or other tribes dependent on the time of year)

See www.amazonferry.com for more up to date information of all aspects of this project.

AIM 3
To gain perspectives on the issues of balancing Tourism and Ecology in Cusco Maccu Piccu/ Sacred Valley

A further Aim is to consider the issues of ecological balance which we will have seen in Amazonia and as contrasting it with issues facing the Cusco/ Maccu Piccu Sacred Valley.
As well as the spectacle of visiting this World Heritage Site we shall be seeking to provide a perspective on sustainable and ecological tourism