The Andean Indian Programme in Peru

Two vocational training centres have been established by the Government of Peru in the Department of Puno in the Lake Titicaca area with technical and financial help from the Andean Indian Programme. A rural worker or campesino on the farm at one of the centres - the Centro de Capacitacion at Chucuito. He has learned to operate a sewing machine and makes clothes when he is not tending the farm. One of the principal tasks the international community has set itself for the 1970's is to help provide work and the skills needed for work for all the people in the world who at present have neither.

The Andean Indian Programme is a programme of international assistance designed to help integrate the estimated 10 million Indians living at a subsistence level in isolated areas of the Andes Mountains into the national communities - mainly Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru - to which they belong. The Programme has been in operation since 1954 and now receives technical and financial help under the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The many-sided aspects of the Programme touching on such matters as education, health and welfare, crop improvements, stock-raising, and public works projects, are co-ordinated by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in association with the UN, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and World Health Organization (WHO).