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“Tha Hand in Hand Trust was founded in 1997”

The Hand in Hand Trust

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The Hand in Hand Trust was founded in 1997 when Roger and Josie Masters, who had previously spent many holidays in Peru, decided that the Peruvian children in extreme poverty needed help. Since starting the first 'Cuna' or nursery the Trust has grown and now operates three centres in different locations around Lima, providing care and development in a very special way for more than 120 children.

The aim of the Trust is to alleviate some of the effects of poverty in the children aged 0-5 years of age and this is mainly achieved by the provision of day care centres where the children are enabled to grow physically, mentally and spiritually through good nutrition, stimulation, play and loving care while their mothers seek work.

Eastbourne College first became in volved with the Trust in 1999.

An opportunity to provide GAP year students with a first-hand knowledge of the work carried out by the charity in Lima is considered to be a very special part of the relationship bettween the College and the Hand in Hand Trust.  During the summer of 2003, twenty-three College pupils spent a few days meeting the children and their carers in Peru, helping with some much-needed maintenance to the nurseries.

Since then a steady flow of OEs - inlcuding Jo Cripps, Rosie Eckert, Katie Evans, Nick Lower, Hannah Lynn and Bella Stewart all pictured on this page -  have visited the orphanages and spent time looking after the children, painting murals, offering relief to the hard-worked carers and generally helping with day-to-day maintenance. 

The experience has been invaluable and in many ways life-changing  for these students who ceased the opportunity to make a real difference to a small community in Peru.  Please click here for Rosie Eckert's and Bella Stewart's account of their time at one of the Hand in Hand orphanages in 2006.

For further information of The Hand in Hand Trust, please click here.