INAPRO is a social service organization working with Andean families who have been subjected to violence from both Sendero (the Shining Path guerilla movement) and Peruvian military forces. Both sides accused the people of collaborating with the other and threatened, assassinated, and tortured them. This situation led to enormous stress and familial violence. The children have faced both political and social violence and suffered psychosocial trauma.

In past years the Martín-Baró Fund supported a project focused on very poor Andean children seeking to help them develop basic capacities such as self-esteem, autonomy, creativity, age-appropriate humor, cultural identity, and socialization skills. This year’s grant will enable INAPRO to continue this work, the goal of which is to create conditions that ultimately favor the development of children’s capacity to participate responsibly as citizens in a democracy.