YANAPANA PERU Supports the Communities!

During the 2011 rainy season (January and February), tourist activity is reduced significantly and many local and rural roads become impassable in the highlands of the Salkantay. During this time, Mountain Lodges of Peru's NGO YANAPANA PERU supports with training courses and workshops on social responsibility and ecology to MLP personnel and local service providers. Since the beginning of the year, YANAPANA PERU has donated clothes and raincoats to highland communities that live in extreme poverty around Soraypampa and Marcahuilla (where our 1st lodge, the Salkantay Lodge, is based). YANAPANA PERU also donated native potato seeds of premium quality to the Huayracmacchay community (where our 2nd lodge is located) in order to improve the productivity of such harvests. YANAPANA PERU continues giving support to new entrepreneurs and ventures in artisanal jam and textile production in the Mollepata community (at the start of our Lodge to Lodge trekking program). Some of the future plans for this year include the construction of an organic farm and irrigation facilities near the Manchayhuayco school to improve the nutrition for the children (the school is located a couple of hours north of Colpa Lodge, our 3rd lodge). In addition, YANAPANA PERU is supporting the construction of THE HOUSE OF COFFEE in a small farm in Lucmabamba, near our 4th lodge. This is a facility where travelers will learn more about the growth and processing of organic coffee, as well as enjoy a tasting and demonstration of the finished product. YANAPANA PERU will continue with these and its more than 40 projects to help improve the communities' economy, health and education. If you want to make a donation and support any of these projects or have more information about our other projects and how you can help, send an email to info@mountainlodgesofperu.com and we will gladly respond how you can help.