Peru Volunteering and Travel

At View Peru we firmly believe that responsible tourism is the only way one can guarantee the sustainable development of travel for present and future generations. As a result of this belief, ever since we started we have involved the local communities and worked with them as suppliers of goods and services, helping them by contributing with medicines, school materials and health issues. Tied in with this, was our commitment to the environment trying to minimize our footprints and respecting the traditional way of life of the peoples through whose territories we passed.

We have also managed to educate and influence our field staff and their communities to improve their quality of life by enhancing their interaction with their own environment. Our work in this area has also caused other operators to improve their environmental performance since it implied improving their standards to be able to compete in this industry.

That is why a percentage of your payment goes directly to help improve the lives of the people and children at the Poqpoquellay and paucarpata Project, a development project in the towns of the same name in the Andean area of cusco for boys and girls focusing on education, vocational training, and true well being for their bright futures. For further information on our volunteering and charity projects, please E-mail us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it we welcome monetary donations for needed building supplies and also warmly welcome any second hand clothes, toys, books and school equipment when you travel with us. Should you visit Cuzco, Peru with us we will be more than happy to show you our charity work and local projects.

Project Poqpoquellay & Paucarpata

As a result of this belief, ever since we started we have involved the local communities and worked with them as suppliers of goods and services, helping them by contributing with medicines, school materials and health issues. Tied in with this, was our commitment to the environment trying to minimize our footprints and respecting the traditional way of life of the peoples through whose territories we passed.

We have also managed to educate and influence our field staff and their communities to improve their quality of life by enhancing their interaction with their own environment. Our work in this area has also caused other operators to improve their environmental performance since it implied improving their standards to be able to compete in this industry.

Our Commitment

In December 2009 Cusco was affected by the hardest torrential rains, there were a lot of complete towns destroyed by the slides and erosions in the mountains, View Corporation was present in each town possible to help them and provide them food, second hand clothes and tents because their houses were destroyed, please take a look of the pictures and you will see the damage to these towns and some charity offer to them and some clients of us working as volunteering during their stay in Cusco,

Andean towns affected by the rain in the sacred and south valley 

View Corp was present with the organized group of volunteers who arrived from Tampa on August 14th of 2010, the service day was programmed to help the affected town of Taray buy the rains, on 2009 20 people died by a slide at midnight, all the town was destroyed with the farmland and animals, everything destroyed, our company was present there 2 days ago the huge accident and now returned with the group of volunteers, helping children and old people, painting houses, cleaning teeth, feeing, recreating children, see our gallery to see our job:

Huaw Project

Association non-profit humanitarian, through the veterinarian, meets the basic needs of animals abandoned or owners without financial resources

We are part of the Association Huaw in Peru, proving veterinarian doctors for dogs, cats and other animals that need urgently help,
View Corporation has a future project in Cusco, to open a refuge for unprotected animals like dog streets, cats and avoid the commercialization of native animals from the jungle like birds, monkeys, jaguars, turtles, etc,

For further details, here are our Responsible Tourism Principles.

Consider environmental management a company priority, committing ourselves to complying with applicable legislation and other voluntary compliances established by us.

• Annually review our quantifiable goals to reduce to the maximum possible levels the generation of solid waste, pollution of water, the risks of fire and the disturbance of wildlife caused by our activities, products and services.

• Responsibly use tourist attractions and the surrounding natural resources preventing their unnecessary abuse and/or consumption minimizing impacts caused to the lifestyle of communities in harmony with the landscape, flora and fauna.

• Promote the proactive participation and training of workers, clients and suppliers in the maintenance of the Environmental Management System, involving and committing them to the compliance of the environmental goals through continuous improvement.

• We use locally owned and run accommodations.

• We purchase our equipment and food from locally produced sources.

• We support local income generation and small business enterprises by supporting locally owned shops and restaurants.

• We hire permanent local staff, local tour leaders and guides.

• We encourage clients through our sales department and leaders, the literature and presentations to act in a responsible way and with an insight and understanding of the host destination.

• We work together with our business partners in the host destinations to implement the highest of standards and where necessary work out an agenda on how these standards can be met.

  We will take into consideration economic, environmental and cultural issues when looking at new destinations.

• We will aim to ensure that our type and scale of tourism is appropriate to local conditions and operate within the limits set by appropriate local infrastructure and carrying capacity.

• We aim to minimize water and atmospheric pollution from tourism developments.

• We aim to achieve zero litter policies.

• We aim to integrate environmental considerations into all economic considerations.

• We provide regular and ongoing training, in the principles and practices of responsible tourism, both to our staff in the office and those employed out of the office.

• We provide financial support for local economic and environmental projects that will benefit the local communities. Thereby actively encouraging local community involvement in Tourism Projects.

• Where ever possible we believe in putting money directly into the communities we visit by using locally owned and run accommodation and eating locally produced food.

• We are careful to ensure that local staff and operators receive a fair rate for their services.

• Our groups are small and sustainable tourism is on the forefront of our agenda.

• We encourage our own staff to take an active interest in responsible and sustainable tourism and train them accordingly so that they can put our policies into practice.

• We endeavor to ensure that our practices help in the environmental conservation of the areas we visit.

• We provide our clients with advice and guidelines on how to respect the social, cultural and religious beliefs of local communities.