Save the Children in Peru
With 43 years in Peru, we work in the most vulnerable communities implementing programmes to ensure girls, boys, and adolescents have access to their rights.
Our Strategic Goals 2025-2027
We aim to build a country where all children can:
Tania* arrived from Venezuela with her two children and her grandmother. Her sister, aunt, and mother were waiting for her in Peru. She decided to leave her country of origin because she was struggling to buy food for her children, who were still very young. Her children Diana*, 5, Alejandro*, 8 and Gabriel*, 11 months all love to play outside, draw and eat their mother's baked goods. MIGUEL ANGEL ARREATEGUI RODRIGUEZ / Save the Children
Valentina, 9 years old. She lives in Lima and her family has few resources to buy food. She goes to the common cooking pot soup kichen, with other children to eat and grow healthy. MIGUEL ANGEL ARREATEGUI RODRIGUE / Save the Children
Anai, 16, y su madre Gloria en su casa en Andahuaylas, Peru Miguel Contreras/Save the Children
Joselim, 17, is one of two children who Save the Children supports to speak in the Inter-American Court on climate change Save the Children
What we do
Save the Children in Peru works to ensure every child survives, learns, is protected, and can participate actively in shaping their future. We partner with communities, families, civil society organizations and government institutions to improve children’s well-being and defend their rights.
We focus our efforts in the following thematic areas: health and nutrition, education, child protection, climate change, and disaster risk management. We also prioritize humanitarian responses, helping children and their families build more resilient communities.
Our impact on children in 2025
43,375
children supported with child protection programmes
37,404
children supported through child poverty programmes
23,999
children supported through education programmes
22,482
children supported through health and nutrition programmes
During a screening campaign conducted by Save the Children in Peru, Ana Lucía*, 4, was diagnosed with acute malnutrition. The family received a cash transfer, money that allowed them to afford food, according to her mother, María Sofía*. Through the Nutrition team, Save the Children provided phone support and in-person advice to the family. Now, Ana Lucía has overcome chronic malnutrition and is a healthy weight. Miguel Arreátegui/Save the Children
GET IN TOUCH
COUNTRY OFFICE ADDRESS
Av. Javier Prado Oeste 820, San Isidro
EMAIL
info.peru@savethechildren.org
PHONE
(511) 422 9292
WEBSITE
www.savethechildren.org.pe
News & Stories
YEAR IN REVIEW: 10 TIMES CHILD CAMPAIGNERS MADE A DIFFERENCE THIS YEAR
From safe schools to ending child marriage to cleaning up the oceans, children across the globe used their voices for their rights
24 May 2024
Children to tell Inter-American Court of Human Rights how climate change is affecting them in historic hearing
Save the Children press release on children speaking about how climate change is affecting their rights at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
21 Mar 2024
Intense rains and floods close schools, destroy crops in the Peruvian Amazon
More than 8,700 people including 3,700 children from indigenous and rural communities affected
Classrooms and health centers submerged under water, crop losses are exacerbating hunger, and lack of water has led to disease outbreaks.