Yearly Archives: 2013

A Snowy Day at the Academy

Posted on August 28, 2018 in From the Field Patabamba

By Yannick Wende, Program Director This last week had started off with some peculiarly odd weather for winter time here in the Andes. It is common to see the skies in winter here filled with sunshine and not a cloud in the sky. This winter however has had some really frequent cloudy days and not […]

Things we sometimes take for granted

Posted on August 28, 2018 in From the Field Sihua

By Yannick Wende, Program Director Sihua is one of the projects I often go to and find a lot of different stories of students at the primary school, most of them come from very poor families in which children are often found in physically and mentally unhealthy situations. The thought of this plus the usual […]

A Family Case Study: Marina

Posted on October 11, 2014 in Alma's Students From the Field Kiya Survivors Project Updates The Alma Community

By Julia Vanderham Co-Founder, Kiya Survivors Marina is a girl from Yanahura, between Urubamba and Ollantaytambo. She lives with her parents and two siblings in a small house. The family is in extreme poverty because the father is an alcoholic and he does not work to support his family. Because the youngest sibling is only […]

Project Update: Mosoq Runa – September 2013

Posted on October 11, 2014 in Mosoq Runa Project Updates

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Project Update: Suyacuyhuan Yachasun – September 2013

Posted on October 11, 2014 in Centro Yanay Project Updates

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Project Update: Colcha School Expansion Project – September 2013

Posted on October 11, 2014 in Colcha School Expansion Project Project Updates

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Project Update: Patabamba Academy – September 2013

Posted on October 11, 2014 in Patabamba Project Updates

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An unusually rocky road up to Marccuray

Posted on August 28, 2018 in From the Field Markuray Rayan Project

By Yannick Wende, Program Director Last week my regular community visits had a little bit of an extra difficulty and danger added to the sum. I was on my way to Marccuray, to go and visit the community to see how the Cuy (guinea pigs) and chicken cages were at, for the nutrition program that […]

Patacancha’s very own production begins

Posted on August 28, 2018 in From the Field Patacancha

By Yannick Wende, Program Director Last week I was up in Patacancha to witness a key event in the evolution of our Patacancha Trout Farm Nutrition Project. A key step in making the project self-sustaining was for the community to make their own trout food (rather than us buying it and transporting it up to […]