The C.I.S community knows Team Peru raises awareness of youth living with terrible disadvantages; it bakes cakes and organizes fundraisers to help provide these children with shelter, food and happiness.
We all know this.
So what don’t we know about Team Peru?

Is’s all about hope.

Team Peru is not an awareness and fundraising project, it’s a young person grooming machine, welcoming in students with big hearts and returning mature young adults with a solid head, aware of the realities of the world and ready for the future.

It has been nothing short of amazing witnessing the strength and composure of these students as the challenges have been laid before them at a rate that would spin the most worldly person’s wheels. There have been sights terribly hard to handle, moments beyond imagination, a language that is not their own, heavy construction in scorching Peruvian conditions, cramped living conditions, and a 4600m mountain to conquer… this to name just a few.

The gem of this program, and what makes it supremely valuable is the way the Team Peru’ers have been led through this with their eyes not on the suffering but on the future. Undoubtedly they are all affected by what they see and experience but they are all encouraged in spectacular style to vocalize their thoughts and emotions, to lean on each other, to visualize themselves in 5,10, 20 or 30 years and ask themselves what should or could be done and how can I help make it happen.

Team Peruers have been given the gift of looking into the future and finding their place, right here right now.

The actions, thoughts, dreams, and intentions these fine C.I.S students spray hope wherever they go and that is what it’s all about.

D.Cooper