Our current projects

Kiya offers special-needs children and abandoned or abused children in Peru an education, therapy, housing and the love and support they deserve. Our three projects: The Rainbow Centre, The Rainbow House and Mama Cocha are the first step towards achieving this aim.

Until the Rainbow Centre's completion, the only provision for special-needs children in Urubamba was a single room with no specialist facilities. The conditions in which they learned were totally inadequate. This was also true of Los Organos and Mama Cocha is also the first of its kind in the area.

Today, Kiya provides a basic education, theatre, art and music therapy. A physiotherapist and speech therapist work regularly with the children. Kiya also runs a psychology facility to help children and their families identify their learning needs.

Kiya employs a local social worker, who works directly with families, encouraging parents to provide appropriate care for their own children and assisting them in returning to work. The social worker also supervises rehousing and back-to-work programmes.

Aside from offerring the much needed education and therapy, Kiya also provides the children with food and medical treatment including anti-parasite programs, blood tests, medical expenses if ill including operations and dental treatment.