Peru
We have worked with local partners in Peru for over 20 years, opening our own office in the country in 2008.
We focus on:
- helping older Peruvians get work and claim legal benefits
- securing pensions for all older people, both in Peru and across Latin America
- helping older people understand and demand their rights
- ensuring older people get the healthcare they need
- making older people less vulnerable in emergencies - and more able to play an active role in recovery efforts.
The difference we and our partners made in 2009-10
- We have helped over 15 older people's organizations get started in the last year.
- By March 2010, with support from HelpAge and its partners, a total of four regional organisations and 42 local organizations have managed to gain legal registration in Peru, with another 17 pending their formal registration. The National Association of Older People (ANAMPER) gained their legal status in March 2009.
- Peru's Congress is now discussing six of the proposals ANAMPER put forward with HelpAge's support to get older people a better deal, including pensions, municipal budget allocations and a set quota of jobs in the workplace.
- With HelpAge's support our partners and older people's local associations have got seven municipal governments to establish Centers for Integrated Attention to Older People.
What next?
We are working towards:
- ensuring a social pension for older people is seriously considered in the media and by politicians as a viable option for Peru. We hope to achieve through technical proposals, studies, lobbying Congress and parliamentarians, as well as awareness raising with the media and the publication of information in key national media
- making society more aware of older people's contributions through awareness raising campaigns, especially HelpAge's campaign Age Demands Action among others
- securing better healthcare for older people through the development of protocols for treating older people's health, training of health staff and developing better policies for older people's health with the Ministry of Health.
Our partners
Asociacion Servicios Educativos Rurales (SER), Centro Proceso Social, Centro de Capacitación de la Universidad San Cristobal de Huamanga (CCCUNSCH), Instituto para el Desarrollo de la Pesca y Mineria (IPEMIN), Older people's association of Peru: Red ANAMPER, CAPIS, Grupo Vida - Dios es Amor, ProVida Perú, Asociación de Apoyo a los Auquis de Ollantay Mesa de ONG y Afines sobre Personas Adulto Mayores, Asociación Caridades de San Vicente