By Walter Duran Espinoza,

My name is Walter Duran Espinoza I am Peruvian but now live in England. I worked for Projects Abroad for four years as the Inca ProjectSupervisor where my work was the organization, coordination, planning and many other things so that the volunteer project ran smoothly.

Walter an volunteers on an expedition to Patacancha

It was a great time since I had the opportunity to share many experiences, meet people, have good times and fun but everything in the name of good work. I met volunteers from many different nationalities, races, ages and hundreds of volunteers have passed through the project in 4 years. We lived like a local family where we shared a great house with the staff group that worked to create a friendly and local atmosphere, now I must tell you that we do in the Inca Project.

1. Archaeological work, this work under an agreement between the INC and Projects Abroad includes cleaning, restoration and sometimes even excavation work on the archaeological zones in the Province of La Convencion (Huyro) where the project is currently based. To make this works successful we need lots of volunteers and equipment to do the best possible job, so you can be sure on having all of the necessary help and direct participation for the programmed works during your stay.

Archaeological work

2. Community work, with the best spirit of collaboration we have a part of the project that tries to help the community that we live in. This help consists of helping to improve local infrastructures (painting school walls, tables and chairs etc), dental campaigns for local kids, sports projects with local school kids or organising social events for local groups. Other activities we have done include planting and cultivating our own food in the kitchen garden at the community house this includes fruit trees, vegetables and looking after the small farm of chickens and ducks and also a programme of reforestation of native plants on the surrounding hillsides.

Dental campaign

3. Expeditions are a really great part of the project. We do expeditions in order to look for new archaeological sites in the surrounding local area and also visit other local famous ruins of the Cusco region in order to understand better the site we are working on. To make this happen the project staff organise all necessary logistics and transport that will be needed for this.

We invite you to become part of this great adventure and new experience with the Inca Project. You could be part of this great work that we are doing with the goals of finding out more about and showing the World the ‘new’ archaeological sites that we have discovered and at the same time working with local people and groups. Come and join the Project Inca so that you could become part of the new history in the making in Peru!

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