Chicuchas Wasi (CW) began in 1987 focused on the society’s tolerated human rights violations of the many abandoned children, as young as 6 years old, surviving alone on the streets of Cusco, Peru. CW created a safe house including nutrition, health care, school, life skills, and more. CW provided an emergency band-aid for these abused children, but it did not address the many reasons for their suffering. Uneducated, unprepared, oppressed and abused women cannot survive economically alone nor can they provide for their children. They cannot begin the fight against abuse and violations to themselves or their children without proper tools or support. If unable to read, write or do basic math their struggle for a quality life is severely limited. In 1997, recognizing the need for female education, CW reorganized to prepare and educate poor girls to become future leaders for social change, to end gender inequality, female abuse and child abandonment.