“With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.”
– Sandra Lake

To all our fabulous supporters!

THANK YOU! Thank you as always for your continued support of Mama Cocha and Kiya Survivors. It means so much to so many.

As we enter the 2nd quarter of 2025 we have much to look forward to, be grateful for and…a lot of news to share!

As you may remember, in 2020, the pandemic lock downs forced Kiya to close the doors to our Mama Cocha therapy center in Mancora, Peru.

The staff were quick to adapt and started working with our families in their homes and helping them create small sensory and therapy spaces in their houses to be able to continue physiotherapy and speech therapy.

This has continued for the past 4 years with our therapists doing home visits to our patients every week on the Kiya motos!

HOWEVER! It is time to re-open the doors and create a communal space to run workshops, provide better equipment for the physiotherapy sessions, have an area for our psychologist to work from and to launch our MAMAMIA project!

We are excited to announce that in May 2025 our new Mama Cocha center will be opened!

This launch has been possible thanks to our long term sponsors along with the united efforts of our families going to Peru this summer on the Family Volunteer Programme. The money raised by the families is being used to buy all the needed material for the new space including new physiotherapy equipment that they will help build and install.

Thank you for being part of the Kiya family and supporting our efforts and families out in Peru.

Suzy and the team xx

MAMAMIA….

To help our families thrive, we need the Mamas of our patients to be empowered! To earn their own money and provide for their children. To use their talents and shine! And so, we have developed the MamaMia project….MamaMia is an initiative to provide a workspace and online platform for them to sell their beautiful hand made products.

We are looking for a marketing savvy and web design volunteers to work alongside Suzy and the group of Mamas, to design their online platform.

Please get in touch if you’d like to help and might be interested!

VOLUNTEER IN PERU!

This lovely family are coming to Peru! 

Monika was one of Kiya Survivors first ever volunteers on the volunteer programme, over 17 years ago!!

She has stayed in touch with our founder, Suzy Butler, and helped raise funds by participating in many active events over the years. She’s also sponsored a child for almost 2 decades!

One of her dreams was to return to Peru with her family. So when she saw Kiya had launched a Family Volunteer programme, she signed them up!

Her and her family, along with another family, will be embarking on a 25 day trip to Peru this summer!

Aside from taking on the 2 day Inca trail to Machu Picchu, whale spotting in Mancora, climbing the Rainbow mountain, taking yoga classes on the beach at sunrise and participating in clown dr workshops, they will be launching the new Mama Cocha facility with Suzy and the team and visiting the Lagos family in Cuzco.

Monika has fond memories of Mati, Juan, Yelson, Lizandra and Fernando who were all very young when she met them and living at The Rainbow House Kiya funded in Urubamba!

Aside from seeing them again, she has fundraised alongside Suzy, to bring Mati and Juan to the Uk and Spain for a month for an incredible adventure we hope will open their hearts and minds and help them grow and strive for a fabulous future!

They will stay with Monika and her family in the UK and do a 2 week sponsored English course before exploring the UK and then coming over to Spain for a week on Suzy’s farm with her family, who they’ve known since they were babies!

Families helping families! Kids supporting kids!

THIS is the Kiya family we want to grow and share- providing amazing experiences for our kids in Peru and, inviting families from overseas to experience Kiya in Peru 

Thank you Monika and family-your support is so so appreciated!! Exciting times ahead!!

If you’d like to join us in Peru as a volunteer, get in touch!

THANK YOU FOR BELIEVING IN KIYA

AND SUPPORTING MAMA COCHA!