At our jobsites we rely on our wiling neighbors to provide water, power, and cooked lunches for our construction crews—they rarely charge more than $10 per day. Most of these families have daily household budgets that are much less and our projects provide extra income. Your small donation here goes far.

Donations of $20 will support our neighborhood transportation costs. We pay local moto-taxi drivers to take us to and from our building sites, which are inaccessible by our regular chartered buses.

We buy tools and hardware from shops in the neighborhoods where we work. The prices are generally very low and the opportunity to interact with local people invaluable.

A large part of our budget for projects in Lima is devoted to transportation from our hotel in Miraflores to the outskirts of the city. A donation of $100 will pay for one day’s round trip by bus. Our bus drivers help navigate Lima’s intense traffic from the city center to the end of the pavement in neighborhoods like Manchay.

Building materials are another large component of the project budget. We try to spend our money in the neighborhoods where we work, which means many small loads of lumber, bamboo, or cement--that rarely cost more than $250--are delivered in a small car or taxi.

Each year we provide a small stipends of $500 to our Peruvian partners to help manage the project site preparation and coordinate the construction process. Without these “boots on the ground” we would not be able to accomplish so much in such a short period of time.

Studio Andino 2016 will be working at two sites, one in the Manchay neighborhood with our NGO partner Ruwasunchis, and one at the fishing wharf in Chorrillos. A donation of $1000 will help fund this expansion and permit us to launch one of our more ambitious design-build projects at the wharf, such as the reclamation and repurposing beached wooden boats at the site.