How Staying at Niños Hotel Supports the Niños Unidos Peruanos Foundation

Choosing Niños Hotel for your stay in Cusco directly funds the Niños Unidos Peruanos Foundation. According to the hotel's own philosophy statement, guest support helps provide one to two healthy meals a day, medical and dental care, homework support, and a caring environment for 600 underprivileged children in Cusco and other villages. The same logic applies to spending at the restaurant and gift shop: your money moves through the business and into the foundation's programs.

The mechanism: hospitality revenue as funding

Niños Hotel is not a charity that happens to rent rooms. It is a hotel and restaurant whose proceeds support a foundation. The site frames the relationship plainly: "By choosing Niños Hotel for your accommodation in Cusco, you support the Niños Unidos Peruanos Foundation."

That means the act of booking a room is the donation mechanism. There is no separate fundraising step described on the page — the stay itself is the contribution.

What the support actually pays for

The foundation's work, as described on the site, covers several concrete areas:

• Nutrition — one to two healthy meals a day for 600 children
• Medical and dental care
• Homework support
• A caring environment — described as a place to fulfill basic needs like a shower and to express creativity

The "caring environment" detail matters because it goes beyond survival needs. The foundation describes providing not just food and medical attention but space for children to be creative.

Two locations, same purpose

The hotel operates at two Cusco addresses:

Contact: [email protected], mobile +51 955839326

Both are in Cusco, so the choice between them is about location within the city rather than about which one supports the foundation — the philosophy statement applies to the hotel as a whole.

The restaurant: homemade food, same mission

Both restaurants serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner at any time. The site notes that meals, breakfasts, desserts, and drinks are homemade, using ingredients from the hotel's own gardens or from local suppliers. On cold and rainy days there is a chimney to sit by; on sunny days, a patio.

The practical point for a socially conscious traveler: eating at the restaurant keeps your spending inside the same structure that funds the foundation, rather than sending it to an unrelated business.

The gift shop: fair salary plus foundation support

The gift shops sell Peruvian art crafts made by local craftsmen and, specifically, by the sewing team of the Niños Unidos Peruanos Foundation. They also carry artwork by the foundation's children, such as hand-painted mugs made during a pottery course.

Two things happen when you buy:

1. The workers — local craftsmen and the foundation's sewing team — receive a fair salary.
2. The purchase supports the foundation.

This is a slightly different mechanism from the hotel stay. With accommodation, the link is revenue-to-programs. With the gift shop, the site describes both fair compensation for makers and support for the foundation, so the purchase does double duty.

How to think about it if you're deciding

If your goal is to make a trip to Cusco carry some social impact, the site's model is straightforward: book a room, eat at the restaurant, buy from the gift shop. Each of those is described as feeding into the same foundation.

What the page does not state: room rates, how large a share of revenue goes to the foundation, or whether donations can be made separately. If those details matter to your decision, they would need to be confirmed directly with the hotel using the contact information above.

The one thing the site is explicit about is scale: 600 children, in Cusco and other villages, receiving meals, medical and dental care, homework support, and a creative environment. That is the outcome your stay is described as supporting.