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Inka Porter Project (IPP) update 16/12/04
The Cusco-based Inka Porter Project (IPP), founded two years ago,
continues to go from strength to strength. Next year sees the opening
of a new training and drop-in centre for the porters and muleteers
in Ollantaytambo near the foot of the historic Inka trail up to
the UNESCO World Heritage site of Machu Picchu.
The centre aims to equip the local communities with skills such
as first aid, waste management and best environmental practice in
order to help preserve the trail which welcomes thousands of visitors
each year. It will also act as a place for the porters to express
any concerns that they might have about their conditions of employment
such as salary and provision of equipment.
This year, IPP has focused its efforts on raising awareness among
tourists of responsible trekking in and around the Sacred Valley.
The team´s creative initiatives have included organising pub
quizzes and days out to Quechua-speaking villages where tourists
give English lessons to the porters in return for a greater cultural
understanding of their way of life. The porters also teach participants
a few words of Quechua.
Inka Porter Project (IPP) newsletter
Read more on IPP on their latest
newsletter (dec 04).
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RAFFLE!
Raising funds for the new training centre is high on IPP´s current
agenda.
In conjunction with Tourism
Concern, IPP is holding a raffle early in the New Year . First
prize is a trip for two to Peru, courtesy of Explore Worldwide and
Iberia Airlines.
Tickets cost one pound each and are available from Tourism Concern.
The closing date is 8 January 2005 and the draw takes place on 10
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| Both Alison Crowther, founder
of IPP, and Tricia Barnett, director of Tourism Concern, were
recently shortlisted for a Responsible Tourism award.
For more information on the Inka Porter Project visit www.peruweb.org/porters
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