About Us
Sweet child peru is a project that works to create and improve life opportunities for high Andean children in Peru.
In July 2020 we took over 1200m2 of overgrown land attached to the Sillacancha primary school and started transforming it into an interactive learning garden that would also provide healthy organic meals for the children.
In june 2022 we started working with another school, recovering a piece of land used as landfill that is now producing and adding our nutrition and education programs to many more children.
In the gardens we have a stimulating learning environment where we can make the most of hands on learning experiences that combine gardening with math, science, history, geography, critical thinking, problem solving and other subjects.
Our outdoor classrooms provide a shaded and peaceful spot to study with our fantastic teachers.
We have been providing many children with classes in organic gardening, English, computer literacy,music, arts, dance, tutoring help with their homework and fun emotional development classes where the children learn through play and group tasks.
In return for our work with the soil our garden has been bearing fruit, as of December 2020 we have been providing over 80 hot, healthy, organic meals per day for local children and parents. Malnutrition and Anemia are serious problems in the Peruvian Andes, being lack of energy and concentration significant symptoms. Before trying to educate our children we knew we had to attack this problem directly, in the garden we devote large areas to the production of iron rich crops, such as beans, broccoli and kale whilst supplementing their lunches with citrus fruits.
Our gardens shows sustainable, organic agriculture methods in a way that is approachable and achievable for local farmers in the valley that are increasingly reliant on chemical pesticides and fertilizers. Our focus is regenerating the top soil via accessible organic methods.
Who is Sweet Child Peru Today
The Farm
Soil/Education/Nutrition
Shortly after the shut-down we quickly partnered with the local primary school , school that most of our children attended. The school provided us with a wild and unused plot of land that we have turned into an abundant and beautiful organic farm with a fledging orchard, and a verdant greenhouse. As children attend their lessons, we are able to feed over a 100 children nutritious meals. In a limited capacity now, that will grow when school reopens, small groups of children are also participating in our educational programs that engage them in learning about sustainable farming practices and additional classes in the areas of arts, environmental education, literacy, art, music, math and a social emotional learning activities and more.
by 2022 we had already partnered with a second rural school in the area that follows the same footsteps.
Our new way forward as we work every day is now beginning to take hold and our organic educational teaching farm is a thriving teaching center headed by Diana Suero and Tom Henriksen. We had also created the first children’s library in the area.
To learn more about our work please follow our Facebook and Instagram where you can see about all that we do.
Sweet Child Peru is a project of Sach’a Munay a USA non profit 501(c)3 and Asociacion Ninos Altos Andinos
sweetchildperu.org
All board members are volunteers.