Meet the Girls of Sacred Valley Project

Peru | See how we’re supporting Sacred Valley Project’s dormitory and education center to give girls a chance at secondary education in the southern Andes

Indigenous girls of the Sacred Valley Project work on school activities together at a long table covered in books, worksheets, colorful markers, and other school supplies.

The Sacred Valley Project (Opens in a new tab) gives indigenous girls from rural Andean communities a safe place to live and learn. With support from the Girls Opportunity Alliance, Sacred Valley Project’s dormitory and education center nurtures girls and provides critical access to secondary education.

Many of the girls who live in the Sacred Valley Project dormitory are from remote villages more than 13 hours away. Their journey is too far and unsafe to travel every day, and boarding is often the only way they can study beyond primary school.

The Sacred Valley Project provides a home for community and growth for dozens of Peru’s indigenous girls who want to stay in school. The girls benefit from a nurturing home, a safe place to study, after school tutoring, language transition for Quechua-speaking girls, and leadership workshops.

Kathiushka Ocha Mesa, House Mother and Tutor with the Sacred Valley Project, says, “here all the girls are like sisters.”