Our Community Projects
Dog shelter volunteer in Cusco
Chinchero Community Project
Umachurco Inca trail Porter Team
Qeros, The Master of wisdom! Andean Shamans
Dog shelter volunteer in Cusco
The location of the Dog shelter it is outside of Cusco city, around 25 minutes driving. it is a very small shelter staffed completely by volunteers.Have in mind that helping abandoned and abused dogs and cats is easy and not expensive
This Could Be the Easiest Thing You Do Today, For some people, their motivation main is compassion, imagining oneself in the place of a living creature that is trapped in a difficult life.For other people, their motivation is a matter of ethics: How does one justify treating animals this way?
Still others have personal reasons for offering kindness and resources to care for abused and homeless animals.Whatever your reason for becoming part of the solution to this worldwide problem, we are grateful that you share our goal to reduce the suffering of Cusco’s street animals.
If you live in Cusco and you have permanent resident
Adopting. If you can provide a safe, loving, healthful home for a rescue pet, we have the dog or cat to enrich your life.
Sponsor a Pet
You can sponsor a pet by making a small donation towards a dog’s food and medical expenses. Be assured that 100 percent of your monetary donation is spent on the care of the animals at the shelter.
Host a “No Babies” Shower
The cost of spaying or neutering a pet is about 30 US dollars (approximately 100 Peruvian New Soles). So invite your friends over to a “no-babies” shower and ask that in place of shower gifts, each guest give $5 or $10 toward the cost of safely and humanely sterilizing a street dog or cat.
“Do you love dogs? Ever wanted to give back and make a difference?”
The Kintuy de Ocutuan - Chinchero
The cooperative project supported by CrossoverPeru is located in the upper part of the Sacred Valley, in the district of Chinchero, the has unique strengths in terms of skills and products, and also offer different pallays (designs in Quechua), according to how their weaving tradition evolved.
We consider that our visit to this Project is going to change the perspective of travel to the visitors and also make an impact in the Life if the local people as we are doing sustainable tourism as we are giving back. As they are traveling.
The Kintuy de Ocutuan Association
The Kintu de Coca Ocutuan weaving cooperative is formed by 30 Quechua women and Men residing in the high Andean community of Ocutuan in Chinchero. Located at altitude of over 12 300 feet above sea level. Close to Piuray Lake in the Andes of Peru.
Life is Hard but good there is a lot to do in the farming lands around the community where the local People farm potatoes, Corn Favabeans, wheat, oat, and Barley.
The first view of the community is a moon-like, windswept valley dotted with a few mud-brick houses. It is a harsh environment where temperatures fall below zero in the afternoons, and little food grows – largely only potatoes, sheep, and llamas. Even today, people here live a subsistence lifestyle, with little attention from the outside world. Whereas the majority of the cooperative members did not have the opportunity to study – the school closed in the 1990’s due to terrorism, only reopening in 2006 and being officially recognized in 2008 – all school-aged children are currently enrolled in school.
Inca Trail Porter Welfare - Umachurco Inca trail Porter Team
Our Inca trail expedition couldn’t get to Machu Picchu without them.
Our Porter Team is integral for us to succeed on these adventures. The only way to make it to Machu Picchu is if we work as a team: guide, travelers and PORTERS and it is our job to make sure that each member of the team is treated properly and protected. Safety in the mountains is the top priority on every trek we take.
Most of them come from the farming community called “Umachurco” Located 04 hours from Cusco City, the community is located in a good slope with terraces build by the locals, during the Rainy season they work in their lands they farm Quinoa and Potatoes, during the dry the dry season they come and with CrossoverPeru as a Porters
Every Porter at CrossoverPeru Tours receives:
- Good and livable working wages.
- Health insurance and full coverage of any medical cost incurred on the trek.
- Proper uniforms including waterproof jackets and boots.
- Warm sleeping bags.
- Access to the same first aid our clients receive.
- A comfortable place to stay and sleep the night before and after their trek (at our Porters House).
- Really good and nutritious food…the same meals we prepare for our trekkers.
- Support of their family with visits by medical professionals, donations of supplies like boots and health needs and a trip to Machu Picchu. Often their first visit is with us as our guest.
Qeros, The Master of wisdom! Andean Shamans
The Qeros Nation are known as the keepers, who inherited the ancient knowledge and at the same time they are one of the most highly respected mystics and spirituals in the southern and central Andes. They are Andean priests, healers, shamans, and simple farmers who are part of the very few Andean people of Peru that are still preserving the knowledge of the spiritual tradition of the Incas in a very pure form.
These amazing people do not have the access to a big hospital or a good education, have neither electricity nor treated drinkable water, which makes them see the world with different eyes appreciating the nature, which the only access to what they have, and nature provide them whatever they may need.
A man/woman from Qeros, inherited the great spiritual knowledge coming the ancestors and divine power from the heaven, which also make them special people, and we know them like Maestros (Masters), who can guide our life to a good path.
As they are preserving all these ancient knowledge, nowadays they are doing an amazing work with the human beings in the areas where they can go and/or travel, this work is based the incredible and amazing spiritual healings that can help in the personal life, improving and enhancing the appreciation for the life, environment and the human mates.
Cusquenian people, we are starting to revalue and retaking these sacred ceremonies, thanks because these amazing people from Qeros, who come to the city every August to perform the Offering to the Mother Earth, because we believe that August the Mother Earth is able to receive our gratitude. And this going to be a great opportunity to be in contact with the spiritual gods and ask all your desires, which is balance that human beings we need to keep.
According what I can learn from the Masters, everybody has the opportunity to be part of these ceremonies in order to find yourself and live in harmony.
