Proceeds from Gallery Textiles have helped the Amazon Village School Project, which brings medicine, school supplies and a real chance to improve the lives of destitute rainforest river children who would otherwise never receive an adequate education without it.

Located deep in the jungle of Peru’s Great Amazon Basin, the first school to be benefited by Gallery Textiles is accessible only by boat. Here, indigent children currently study in a one-room schoolhouse. There are no books, pencils or paper.

After about fifth grade, only a few lucky children will make the long daily dugout canoe trip to the remote region’s secondary school. For the children not chosen, there will be no more education. As teenagers, they will work the fields and river, along with their elders, in deplorable conditions for the rest of their lives. There are no other options in their subsistence culture.

Our goal is to provide these children with more than just an education; along with school supplies, we also brought powdered milk, medicine, and sandals to give them nourishment, and help develop self-esteem.

Please know that when you purchase a Gallery Textiles product, you’re buying more than just a scarf or a sweater, you’re making a contribution toward a better future for children whose lives have not improved in centuries. This is just one of the projects Gallery Textiles has supported to help impoverished children in Peru.