MySmallhelp Cusco

Monday 8th February – Cusco Monday was spent getting organised after the weekend and having meetings. We met with Carlos, our Peruvian contact and with George and Cathy of Desana Inc. George and Cathy founded and run a charity which supports projects in Peru and Russia. When they heard about the floods they flew straight [...]

Last weekend offered an opportunity to get out of Cusco and head to the Sacred Valley in Peru to offer physical and financial support to communities greatly affected by the recent flooding.  To those who haven’t been, the Sacred Valley in Southern Peru is on route to Peru’s largest tourist attraction, Machu Picchu and was [...]

We woke up in Ollantytambo on Sunday morning to a bright blue sky, in the knowledge that we had another day of physical work ahead of us. Ollantytambo is a gorgeous Incan town, with Incan water ways running through the streets and two extremely impressive sets of Inca ruins on hill faces either side of [...]