In  the year 1993 the foundation has bought 1.6 ha of land in the out-skirts of Iquitos, a former chicken-farm. Four families or modulo's, each family of 10 children with a mother or "nana", are housed in the former farmhouse and a separate building. In 2003 an extra building, "Casa Johana", was constructed for children in their last resident year who are preparing for leaving the children's home and enjoy more own responsibility

and independence. The land is completely walled in for security reasons, mainly to protect against theft. On it are multifunctional concrete sports grounds, a kitchen garden for the children, many fruit-trees and a nursery for chickens, dugs and guinea-pigs. The children assist in the garden.

The personnel counts a director, three or four nana's, one parttime social worker for coaching the elder non-resident children, 1.5 cook, 3 workers for the maintenance of land and buildings and a night-watchman. All personnel is Peruvian. Arco Iris also employs a varying number of partime Peruvian teachers who work for the education project which provides for additional educational support to up to about 100 chidren of the first 3 years of the public primary school. Apart from enabling the children to successfully visit the public school, the project also tries to improve the quality of the education at the public school by coaching the teachers thereof.

In 2006 we started with a project to give extra lessons to our children in addition to those on the local public school which they visit, with the help of Dutch volunteers, coordinated by an experienced Dutch woman teacher.

This has substantially improved the children's  learning capability and pleasure in learning, as well as their self-esteem: many of our children now belong to the best of their class. In 2008 we built a special building with 5 small classrooms on our facility in which our children and other children from outside our home get additional lessons from local teachers assisted by volunteers from the Netherlands.

The local teachers are made familiar with other didactic methods in the area of doing sums and language teaching which contribute to their effectiveness at school.