Aurora Andina
Volunteer & Spanish School
Aurora Andina was founded in 2005. We have a 14-year-experience working to achieve our main objective of transforming our environment through human collective action.
After all these years of sustained work, we have achieved connecting a net of over 50 public and private institutions and NGOs in the city of Cusco with which we collaborate and share our social compromise, within the areas of education, art, health care service, rural communities, the infant, rehabilitation from domestic violence, the environment of a sustainable tourism, ecology, children in risky situation, orphanages, among others.
We manage lively accommodations in family homes, shared apartments, and a student residence.
Our mission
Aurora Andina has as mission to support the social and cultural development of the community through a sustained volunteer service, joining efforts with different public and private institutions, and NGOs in the city of Cusco, in order to achieve true social transformation.
Our vision
It is to transform our environment through a leading platform in the field of volunteer service in the city of Cusco, being human collaboration our fundamental principle.
Our philosophy
We confide on the daily use of the Andean principles of:
- Munay – A profound and impersonal love that is born naturally in the heart.
- Yachay – Knowledge and wisdom. The ability to think.
- Llank’ay – Work, service and action.
- Ayni – Reciprocity. Today for me, tomorrow for you. If you get, you have to give. If you give, you have to get. This is the major principle in the Andes.
TIMELINE
01. FOUNDED
It was founded doing environmental volunteer service on cleaning rivers and we created a football school for children in the area of the Sacred Valley in Cusco.
2005
2007
02. VOLUNTEERING & SPANISH SCHOOL
We opened AA in the city of Cusco oriented to local volunteer work and learning Spanish. We started to work with a net of over 50 public and private institutions, and NGOs.
03. ABROAD ALLIANCES
We started to host students and volunteers from organizations in Europe and the USA.
2008
2011
04. CHRISTMAS CAMPAIGNS
We realized our project of Christmas Campaign, raising toys, food, clothing, and giving them to the rural communities, orphanages, and hospitals every end of the year since 2011 to the present.
05. AA REFUGEE
We realized our project of Aurora Andina Shelter hosting 20 children to offer them school reinforcing, psychological assistance, food, and workshops for parents and children.
2013
2018
06. NOWADAYS
Present days: We offer cultural programs (Peruvian cuisine classes, collective art creation, touristic trips with a purpose), Spanish classes, volunteer service, and lodging in family homes, shared apartments, and student residence in the city of Cusco.
