Peru Summer Trip - July 2025

Saturday, July 19, 2025 12:00 PM
Sunday, July 27, 2025 1:00 PM

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This trip offers an international service experience in Lima, Peru.
Below are some important details about this upcoming trip.

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Deadline to apply for this trip is May 19, 2025.

PARTNER SUPPORT

This team will serve Kids Alive Peru as we learn about their ministry and the impact they have in their community. During our time together, team members will interact with the kids from the homes and the school, the ministry staff, the house parents, and the local community that our partner serves. We will also provide financial and physical support to further aid in their year-round ministry.

“Kids Alive International is a faith-based nonprofit dedicated to meeting the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of vulnerable children and families.” Serving with Kids Alive may include moments of prayer, attending Christian church services, listening to Bible teachings & worship, and participating in other religious focused experiences.

While we partner with faith-based organizations, it is not a requirement to adhere to a specific religion or belief to join us. We strive to provide an equal opportunity to all individuals interested in our service trips, hoping that each life will be uniquely transformed. That being said, we ask each participant to be respectful of each other and of our partners, and to remain open to conversing about the things that make us different as well as the commonalities that bring us together.

TEAM CAPTAINS

Your Team Captains for this trip will be Liz Soto & Yadira Beltran. Here is a message from them:

Hi there, my name is Liz and beyond excited to come back this year as a Team Captain! I was first introduced to HFK at Saint Mary’s and got the amazing opportunity to travel and spend a month serving in the Dominican Republic.
I reconnected with HFK 2 years ago and visited Peru for a week-long service trip. I’m excited to come back to that same site in Peru and bring people to this wonderful community. This is a community which has seen a lot and experienced more than most people do in a lifetime. There will be plenty of fun and laughs, but let’s not forget to bring loads of love and empathy.
-Liz
¡Hola! I’m Yadira and I’m very excited for the opportunity to be one of the co-captains for this trip. My experience with Here for Kids (HFK) has been so positive and incredible that I knew I wanted to continue serving alongside them. This will be my second trip with HFK; I traveled to Costa Rica (¡Pura Vida! 😃) at the end of June 2024 as a team member and felt the joy of service and comunidad reignited in me. I traveled alongside an incredible group of people and learned so much about a culture different from my own.
I am a Spanish Dual Immersion teacher and absolutely love working with children. However, being able to serve others, especially young people, outside the classroom setting is a beautiful blessing. I am from Fairfield, CA and graduated from Saint Mary’s College of CA in 2013 (Go Gaels!). I hope those seeking an opportunity to serve others and do meaningful work consider joining us in July 2025! 😀
-Yadira

HEALTH & SAFETY

Here For Kids strives to be diligent in protecting both our team members and the sites that we serve. HFK will purchase health insurance coverage for the duration of your trip and provide masks for you to wear during travel if desired.

To learn more about health & safety protocols, check out our FAQ’s here.

TIME COMMITMENT

Team members of this trip are expected to:

Attend two virtual pre-trip meetings with the team prior to traveling.
Participate in a week-long international service trip.
- Depart July 19, 2025 & Return July 27, 2025.
Attend at least one virtual post-trip meeting with the team after returning.

PHYSICAL DONATIONS

On each of our service trips, we provide physical, or in-kind, donations to our partners. We encourage each participant to gather requested donation items as part of their trip preparation. Each international partner has different donation requests which will be communicated to you during pre-trip communication and meetings. We ask all trip participants to limit the packing of personal travel items to their carry-on bag and backpack so that partner donations can travel in any checked baggage.

You can learn more here.

FINANCIAL COMMITMENT

Below is the breakdown of the costs associated with this service trip. Once your application is accepted, you will be asked to pay a $640 deposit to secure your spot on the team. Then, you will be required to follow the funding milestones on your Go Method profile to stay up to date on your trip payments. The total trip payment is due no later than 14 days before the departure of your trip.

Breakdown of Cost:

$1,300 - Airfare and Baggage Fees
$525 - Kids Alive In Country Costs (Food, lodging, transportation, project costs)
$525 - Kids Alive Child Care and Rescue Funds (Donation to support continued care for children and program growth)
$100 - HFK Operations & Care Package
$50 - Travel Insurance
$700 - In-Country Excursion (Machu Picchu)

$3,200 Total Trip Cost

FUNDRAISING & SCHOLARSHIPS

All trip participants are encouraged to fundraise to complete their total trip cost. To aid you in this process we recommend creating a Personal Support Page on Go Method. Once created, you can share this page as a personal fundraising link with your friends, family, and community for support. We also provide a Fundraising Info Sheet and a Fundraising Letter Template to assist you in the fundraising process. These and other Service Trip Resources can be found here.

For this trip, in addition to fundraising, we are offering the following types of scholarships for team participants that need financial assistance to complete total trip payments.

15% Scholarship
30% Scholarship

You can apply for a scholarship during the application process. Scholarship funds are limited and will only be awarded to participants on an as-needed basis. All scholarship recipients will be required to write a “Donor Thank You Letter” upon returning from their trip.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Trip schedules may vary but typically include:

Working on service projects alongside our partners.
Engaging in nightly devotionals and bonding activities with your team.
Having fun with kids and partner staff through sports, games, and other activities.
Being present during moments of prayer and worship.
Spending time in self-reflection to promote spiritual growth.
Learning ways you can support partner sites beyond your time in country.
Exploring the beauty of the country you travel to during a park visit, beach day, hike, or other excursion activity.

To see what we have been up to on past trips, click here.