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Peru

2018

RET began local operations

11

Projects

70,000

Program participants
What We Do

Areas of Intervention

Education and capacity building
Education and capacity building
Health and WASH
Health and WASH
Protection
Protection
Including humanitarian aid
OTHER AREAS OF INTERVENTION

Country Summary

Peru is a South American country that borders Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia, and Chile, and has an extensive coast along the Pacific Ocean.


In recent years, it has seen a dramatic rise in asylum applications in (upwards of 20,000 in 2017), many fleeing the economic crisis in Venezuela. This influx of people has increased risks for violence, trafficking, and exploitation, as well as caused economic strain as families seek to make a living.

Interventions

RET first began working in Peru in 2018, and over the past year, we have implemented a project through Education Cannot Wait, focused on increasing the educational inclusion of refugee children, those in flight and exile, and adolescents in Tumbes through a project called Compartimos+.

 

The program (which will continue through 2023) has targeted upwards of a thousand girls and boys, as well as their teachers, principals, and schools, and seeks to improve the access to- and quality of education.

In the metropolitan Lima and Callao, RET is working to reach more than 3,000 Venezuelan people in flight and exile and refugees to improve their quality of life. In coordination with the Ministry of Health, this program is fostering coordination between host communities and families of refugees and people in flight and exile.

 

In part a response to the pandemic, it has wider-reaching goals and will prioritize diversity and inclusion, with special attention to highly vulnerable refugees and people in flight and exile, such as children and adolescents, pregnant women, the LGBTQI+ community, and people living with HIV/AIDS.

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