"To understand Peru, both present and historical, you have to see the "New Towns", "Human Settlements" growing around Lima. High up on a hillside looking down on the city, people are building their own community. Streets, staircases, children´s nurseries. There is little help from the government here. Water arrives by truck to the top of the road, and is carried further to the topmost houses. Only a few places have electricity, installing their own wiring to route it up the hillside. But every Sunday members of the community meet to work together, and you can volunteer to join them. To do so offers powerful symbolic support for a people whose own government, and the wealthy of Lima, largely choose to ignore."