As we launched this project recently I thought it was about time to write a blog post about the community of Tucsa. And not only the community but, more specifically, their children. As I have traveled through countless communities here in Peru and Bolivia, after a while you start to realize how factors like climate, […]
I won’t deny that in this past week, I had a very hard time making the routine 1.5 hour hike up to our nutrition project in Marccuray. Usually I enjoy this hike quite a bit because the scenes are just beautiful. But this time I had an extra burden to carry up the steep hill: […]
January 2014 – Leer Más >>
We have worked 3 years to get the Patacancha school lunch program/trout farm to a point of self-sufficiency. It hasn’t been without its challenges: equipment failure, fish dying, community issues (families without children in the school being jealous of those with kids in the school and benefiting from the program etc, etc, etc) but ultimately […]
I have seen Walter surrounded by adoring children in dusty villages in the high Andes, and embraced by mothers in the streets of Cusco. For anyone who has had an interest in improving education in Cusco province of Peru over the past 20 years, Walter Meekes and his charity HoPe, already have our recognition and […]