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:
Survive
- Reducing acute malnutrition through community-based management and early detection.
- Expanding maternal, neonatal, and infant care services.
- Increasing coverage of climate-resilient services and anticipatory actions to protect families from floods, droughts, and other shocks.
Learn
- Expanding the Safe Schools Common Approach and psychosocial support in classrooms.
- Strengthening foundational learning in literacy, numeracy, and social-emotional skills.
- Integrating climate resilience in educational environments, benefiting children in highly vulnerable areas.
Be protected
- Expand case management, legal aid, psychosocial support, and safe referral pathways for survivors of violence.
- Rebuild and strengthen child protection systems by training formal and informal service providers to deliver quality, coordinated, and climate-resilient protection responses.
- Empower children and civil society to advocate for their rights, influence decision-making, and promote gender equality.
Be resilient
- Support adolescents transition to adulthood, with a focus on girls and young mothers, through education, social protection, life skills, technical training.
- Expand climate-smart and diversified livelihood programmes, enabling families and youth to secure stable incomes.
- Scale ecosystem-based adaptation and anticipatory climate actions, strengthening community resilience to droughts, floods, and other crises.
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
43,369
children support with child protection programmes
37,391
children support through child poverty programmes
23,999
children supported through education programmes
21,937
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.