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The minister of Housing, Construction and Sanitation Juan Sarmiento, announced that 3,000 houses will start to be built in November in Ica, Pisco and Chincha, areas affected by the August 15 2007 earthquake. These houses will be delivered to their owners in six or eight months.

“We have made a package of 3,000 houses, which construction will start in November, and we have delivered a 56 million soles family,” he told Canal N.

He said the works will be developed by private enterprises, developed in eight months, but delivered in six months.

The minister also said new Police stations will start to be built in November 15 in Ica and will be finished by March 2010.

He said that though sanitation works are being delayed, the Ministry is taking all possible measures to finish them in the planned schedule.

“We are updating when the works were started and when they will be finish, we are going to supervise the progress,” he stated.

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More than 12 thousand coffee growers from Chanchamayo and Satipo (Junín) will benefit from the implementation of the Regional Institute of Coffee, in Pichanaki district, whose headquarters were inaugurated by the regional president, Vladimiro Huaroc Portocarrero.

Huaroc said that this institute was built with the aim of improving production and productivity, and to develop and new technologies to obtain better crops (competitive and sustainable) as well.

The institute's main task is the creation of new technological models, certified seeds and plants, and pest control.

The construction of this institute was achieved after signing of the agreement between the regional government of Junín and the National Institute for Agrarian Innovation (INIA).

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According to RadioProgramas del Perú (RPP), President Alan García said Peru "will be part of developed world" if it keeps going through the path of investment, decentralization and creation of social programs to help poor sectors.

"I we keep going on like this, in a very near future we're going to reach a good level in America, and we will be part of the first world afterwards; we will have completed our development", he stressed.

García reminded that United Nations highlighted the achievments Perú has reached in its fight to eradicate poverty.

He also added that the government will keep working to provide basic services to the poorest and promote investment to create more jobs.

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A noble initiative in Uchumayo, Arequipa, allow children to keep on attending school.

Boys and girls from Virgen de la Peñas District, in Uchumayo (Arequipa) have to a walk long way every day to go to school, exposed to dangers and distractions along all the way: that's one of the reasons behind the recent high rates of school desertion.

However, a noble policeman has found a way to help them. Fernando Cano, from the Congata-Uchumayo Police Department, picks up the kids along the way and takes them to school.

"At first moment there were only the kids of one family, and the following days there were more and more kids joining," says Cano proudly.

This initiative is not a new one for him, who has participated before in a similar program that allowed the recuperation of a group of gang members into sporty kids and little businessmen.

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Pisco production in Peru amounts to five million liters per year, from which 98% percent is consumed in Peru, and the remainder is sold across other latitudes, said Jaime Marimon, President of the Lima Region Pisco Producers association.

He said that the current production of the flagship liquor has increased, since years ago the production ranged between 3.8 and 4.2 million liters.

He also revealed that the goal is to get to produce, within five years, 15 million liters of pisco annually, and to position this production in markets as well.

He also specified that a total of 647 producers have authorization to use the appellation of origin of Pisco, more than double than the ones who have not certified their production yet.

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Huanuco’s Governor Jorge Espinoza presented a US$ 987 million project portfolio to national and international entrepreneurs participating in the International Investment Forum for Peruvian regions - Peru Regiones 2009.

The small hydroelectric centrals of Huertas, Pana, Ambo, San Juan, Vizcarra, Llata and Chinchao, for example, need a 60 million dollar investment.

Some other 650 million dollars are needed for the InterOceanic highway in the stretch Huacho-Sayán-Churín-Oyón-Yanahuanca-Ambo-Huánuco-Panao- Chaglla-Codo del Pozuzo-Puerto Iparía-Puerto Putaya-Villa Taumaturgo, in Acre, Brazil.

Other projects include the Park of Huanuco (4 million dollars), the creation of the technologic city in Tingo Maria (16 million), and the waste water treatment plant of Huanuco (5 million dollars).

Espinoza also presented projects to promote the cultivation of palm  oil (46 million dollar), the cultivation of cacao in the province of Leoncio Prado (15 million), and the integral management of forests (20 million).

Huanuco is a department that offers all the legal, social and security guarantees for investors, he assured.

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Peru's Commission on the Promotion of Exports and Tourism (PromPeru) will launch in Arequipa a campaign called "Arequipa at your fingertips," which aims to  provide people a way to participate in touristic activities  for one day without spending more than 15 nuevos soles, reported today Yermeth Murguia, from the Iperu Information Office.

To publicize the campaign, IPerú has more than 23,000 brochures that are being distributed among the population. The brochures provide information on the countryside of Arequipa, a sector still unknown even for many people currently living in the city, unaware of the attractions in traditional sectors such as Quequeña, Yarabamba, Characato, Sabandía, Chiguata, Paucarpata, Sachaca, Tiabaya and Yura.

The brochure, elaborated in close coordination with local authorities, also presents information from the districts, and specifies that the charges for these tours will not  be over 15 nuevos soles.

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A group of children 12 to 16 years from the Cocama ethnicitiess, who live in San Martin de Tipishca (a village in the National Reserve Pacaya Samiria) have learned to document their lives through photography.

This happened thanks to the the initiative of the American citizen Amy Coplan, a music teacher from Jersey City who traveled to the Peruvian jungle to see exotic animals, was eventually drawn to the simple but incredible life of children in the area.

"The children learned very quickly and were able to do amazing things; I was surprised," said Coplan.

The photographs capture moments of family life in the Amazon, from the refreshing perspective of a child.

Coplan hopes his project and a small foundation that she wants to create, that will be called Children of the Amazon, will help to buy medicine, school supplies and fund the education of children, who may even have the option to continue their studies outside the village.

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The celebrations on the 110th anniversary of the japanese Immigration to Peru will officially start tomorrow, October 14th, with a roundtable about Nikkei Cuisine, with the participation of the renowned Japanese-Peruvian cooks Humberto Sato, Toshiro Konishi, Hajime Kasuga, among others.

They will discuss the origins of Nikkei cuisine as a result of the combination between Peruvian and Japanese food and techniques.

However the celebrations will last during all October and Novembre, with a cycle of conferences and lectures on the contributions made by Japanese people in Peru in areas like anthropology, gastronomy, literature, fine arts and history.

These events and conferences will also have the participation of Peruvian specialists such as Luis Guillermo Lumbreras, Antonio Zapata, Marco Martos, Élida Román; and special guests will arrive from Japan, Brazil and USA.

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The practice of aquaculture of tropical fishes has recently doubled in the different districts and communities in the Apurimac and Ene River Valley (VRAE), and this economic activity has become a practical and cost-effective alternative in this area dominated by the illegal coca cultivation and drug trafficking operations.

During two years, the Peruvian Amazon Research Institute (IIAP) started this project, repopulating the rivers with tropical fishes, and providing technical assistance to municipalities, so the aquaculture can soon become an alternative, cost- effective activity to the coca cultivation.

With almost no promotion, there are 15 hectares of lakes and ponds in spread in 17 communities, with thousands of typical fishes that breed in only a few months.

This is expected to be an opportunity to fight malnutrition in schoolchildren and pregnant mothers, and it also represents a very good alternative for doing business.

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