Our philosophy of life is to be really human, and being human means for us to work with our neighbor, and to help others less favored in our possibilities, respecting and protecting the environment or natural environment where we live, therefore we consider humanity and the environment as the most valuable.
Because we or the people who work here, including the owner of the company (Americo Cabrera), had the experience of living in a less favored society with high rates of poverty and lack of protection of the natural environment.
And our responsibility is to improve the social and environmental reality.
OBJECTIVE: Generate social, educational and environmental awareness in the less favored communities by the authorities and companies.
WORK AREA
We identify sectors or communities with high rates of poverty, malnutrition and lack of support from different agencies.
At present, we have identified more than 5 sectors with these indices, in which we are working. These communities are located to the north or east of the City of Cusco, in the central jungle of the department of Cusco, Province of the Convention and District of Huayopata.
Throughout this geographical location is the Inca Jungle route to Machu Picchu, where can be taken 4, 3 and 2-day tours, but unfortunately the companies that offer these tours, are companies that do not benefit at all to these communities, where they are just observers of the presence of tourism. Therefore, we take the initiative to further expand the route by implementing bird watching, fishing, community tourism and other tours in the area with the participation of the residents.
REALITY OF THE PEOPLES INVOLVED
Incatambo, Curcur, Pistipata, Chilcachaca, Lauramarca: The social reality is devastating in this area, it was found that 45% of its population are adults over 60 years dedicated to agricultural activity, without any technical or professional support for what they work barely to survive with the strength they have, and agriculture is tea. The other 65% are between 02 to 60 years old, among young people we can see high migration rates, in order to find a job in other sectors. So children, women and adults are left underdogs and unprotected. In children and adults, you can see malnutrition in children lack of education, since the study centers are far away, in the elderly there is the sad reality of living in need of helplessness, and young people and adults work in it. They can survive in houses made of sticks, mud, stones and some half built with some roofs received by donations.
Objectives in the work area:
In summary, our objective of social responsibility is to change these deficiencies, through different projects, which one of them is:
- Create alternatives for visiting and staying in these areas, complementing the tours that go to Machu Picchu (in which we mention, such as Bird watching, hiking, visit of the Orchid forest, and fishing, with stay in the homes of some families belonging to to this sectors)
- Create educational programs, helping children in schools with study materials, teaching, creating environmental awareness.
- Participate in the conservation of nature, because for us it is very important to take care of the environment, these works are with reforestation campaigns, control of the burning of the forests, tree plantations to beautify the roads, take care of the water sources and solid waste management.
SOCIAL PROJECTS WORKED THIS YEAR
COMMITTED TO EDUCATION
We have been part of stimulating the children 2 schools in 2017, in their academic performance participating in their areas of study, with programmed talks on cultural identity, Environment, field trips, recognition of life zones and participation in reforestation projects. Therefore generate an incentive in their educational development and as a reward for their effort will be supported in their promotional trips or study trip in their last grade.
Our goal with them is to achieve entrepreneurial citizens with identity and to practice reciprocity in the future.
COMMITTED TO THE ELDERLY ADULTS
According to our scope, we have only achieved, to calm your basic needs with some products. Taking you to your home as food, clothing and happiness products for our visit. Achieving a smile is a great gesture for us and let them know that they are not helpless and let them know that there are noble people who collaborated to make this a reality. We do this work only 2 times in 2017.
CARING FOR NATURE
This project aims to have the identity of caring for our natural heritage which is the most valuable resource for life. We have taken campaigns and talks to improve our habit of living in the care of forests, rivers, and animal preservation. And with the help of the residents, organic gardens are being created to improve food and our future project is to create large tree gardens to beautify the trails, the streets, reforest the forests and more.
FINANCING OF SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS
We have 2 ways to finance the project:
1. INCOME OF THE AGENCY
The travel agency allocates an annual budget, this budget is obtained by profits and profits from the travel programs and packages sold to our clients or traveling friends during their visit to Peru.
2. COLLABORATION OF TRAVELERS
Some traveling friends who made the tours with us know our work and are involved in the experiences, at the same time they collaborate in their possibility with these objectives of our company, others are those who collaborate directly upon their arrival in Peru in the tours they do. Thanks to this, we can carry out our objectives.