The rurapuk project

June 6, 2007 by Didi AMV.

In Quechua, the language of the ancient Incas, Rurapuk means “people who help each other”. The Rurapuk project is run by the Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team (AMURT – a not for profit organization) and has three programs - The Rurapuk Hot Lunch Program, Rurapuk Mothers and the Machu Picchu Stars. The Rurapuk Hot Lunch Program (known as the Comedor) provides hot meals to nutritionally at risk children in a very poor area of Lima called Paraiso Alto; Rurapuk Mothers is a sewing collective which provides employment and helps to empower poor women; and Machu Picchu Stars is a group of hearing disabled persons who make hand made dolls and children’s clothes. The members of Rurapuk Mothers and the Machu Picchu Stars receive a fare wage and profits are reinvested back into the projects.

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