The Andean Indian Programme in Peru

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).
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. Students at one of the centres - the Centro de Capacitacion at Taraco - are seen here working on the roof of a new school building in Taraco. One of the principal tasks the international community has set itself for the 1970s is to help provide work and the skills needed for work for all the people in the world who at present have neither. [Exact date unknown]