This project is born in collaboration between TERREDELSUD and the MAGIS (Movement and Action of the Italian Jesuits for the Development). The objective is that to contribute to the improvement of the conditions of life of the families that reside in the communities object of the intervention, because can live a satisfactory qualitatively and dignified life that realize her to the manifold dimensions inside the reality of their natural environment and that allow they to reduce in meaningful way the exodus of the young people from the countries. 

Whoever would like to have more information or to contribute in any way can write to nelmondo@terredelsud.org and receive all the necessary information.

Geography and politics

Republic of Peru 

República del Peru  

Surface: 1,285,556 Km²
Inhabitants: 27,484,000 (2001 estimate) 
Density: 21 inhabitants/Km²
Form of government: Presidential republic 
Capital: Lima (6,740,000 inhabitants.) 
Other cities: Arequipa 980,000 inhabitants; Callao 648,000 inhabitants; Trujillo 500,000 inhabitants; Chiclayo 400,000 inhabitants. 
Ethnic groups: Amerindians 48%, Half-caste 35%, White 13%, Blacks and mulattos 4% 
Bordering countries: Ecuador and Colombia in the North, Brazil and Bolivia to the East, Chile to the South 
Principal mountains: Nevado Huascarán 6,768 m 
Principal rivers: Rio Ucayali 1900 Km, Rio Marañón 1800 Km 
Principal lakes: Lake Titicaca 8300 Km² (total, including the Bolivian side) 
Principal islands: Isla Lobos de Tierra 
Climate: Moderate-arid 
Language: Spanish, Quechua (official), Aymará 
Religion: Catholic 90% 
Coin: Peruvian Nuevo Sol 

TITLE:

 Consolidation of the capacities for individual enterprise in the valleys of Chicama, Chao, Virù, and Moche.

 
Description of the Initiative: 

The project was born on the initiative of Jiménez Ludena Fiorentino in 1991 with the aim of restoring dignity of life, above all to the young people who lived in these valleys of Peru where the lack of concrete objectives made the possibility of a future civil society more and more difficult. 

General aim of the Project: 

To train every young inhabitant of these valleys with the agricultural skills necessary to sustain their own family
In this way, the depopulation of these valleys, which would not only have serious repercussions from a social point of view but also from an environmental one, can be avoided. 
All this will strengthen civil society and the sense of belonging of these populations in their territories. 

Specific aim: 

In order to be able to carry out the general aim it is necessary, however, to be able to draw from water resources and distribute these through systems which pump the water uphill and deliver it.
It has been hypothesized that such a program can be set up in the years 2004-2010.
The crops to be cultivated will range from horticultural full field products to fruit plants. 
To be able to fulfil this aim, it will be necessary to set up offices to assist the young farmers, who will have to learn farming techniques and a grounding in the agricultural crops they will be growing.
This office will also be responsible for commercial organization in order not to limit produce only to internal consumption, but also to consent a good export.
This will also allow a recovery of the investments that have become necessary for this project. 

Strategy of the project: 

The general strategy of the project is therefore concentrated on the training and organization of the whole productive cycle: from learning basic farming techniques to knowing the criteria for a greater quality of the crops. 
Finally, a particular support is given to one of the most delicate phases of rural production, that is to say, marketing. 
All this can allow an amplification of the areas where new young people can draw close to the rural world with renewed trust.