Lima was - and to an extent still is - a garden city. Municipalities, companies and individuals need gardeners. This was why our first course, as early as 1997, trained gardeners at a site in one of the poorest and most troubled suburbs of Lima, Villa Maria:
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Thereafter we entered into partnership with Jardines de la Paz, a local company who establish and run cemeteries.
Various articles have been published in the Peruvian press on our co-operation with the Embassy, Jardines de la Paz, CEDRO and the Associacion Cultural Peruana-Britannica (ACPB), who are now sponsoring one of our gardening courses.
With the Hand-in-Hand Trust, another British charity with whom we organise nursery-nursing courses, a new Wawa Wasi (nursery school) has been established in the grounds of the Zapallal school which was one of our original inspirations. Plus ca change ... !
Brother Paul, the founder of the Zapallal School and now working inspiringly with us in Iquitos, together with one of his students and Liz, at the environmental project set up there in the name of our late Treasurer, Tom Bucknell.
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The BCT was also the essential channel through which the funds were passed by
the Rose Foundation, another British charity, to Project Mantay, for the
building of a home near Cusco, which can house up to 22 mothers, the young
(12-16 y.o.) victims of rape, and their babies:
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The BCT have the responsibility to ensure that the Home continues to be used for the purpose it was built. We will also help as regards training and nursery-nursing, where necessary.