Happiness is riding in the back of a pick up truck with the kids from Pacopata! I was out in Paruro valley yesterday (5 hours from Cusco) visiting our projects. School was cancelled in Cochirhuay but that didn’t stop kids from walking for up to 90 minutes to come to our biblioteca project. Seeing their […]
Rocio, 18, has spent 12 years of her life in an orphanage because her mother was/is incapable of raising her. She and her brothers were living alone in a small apartment in Cusco when they were noticed by neighbours who alerted the police. They were all put back into an orphanage but then later released […]
My work with Alma means I spend quite a bit of time traveling. The majority of the time these are one or two day trips to visit the communities we work in, throughout the Cusco region. However, we also have projects in the Peruvian Amazon, the Bolivian Amazon, and in La Paz. Wherever I […]
At the airport in Toronto we got news that Cusco had been shut down by a general strike: everything was closed and the roads were to be blocked for the next 2 days. President Ollanta decided to privatize the management of the archaeologic sites in Cusco province which upset everyone in this part of the […]
*Ver abajo texto original en Español Ruben David Condori Yujra is 10 years old, in 5th grade in the educative unit “Urkupiña II”. His family is composed of 2 girls and 1 boy and he has a father and a mother. Unfortunately his dad was diagnosed with acute renal failure, classified as a handicap and […]
“Our program director Ian Mcgroarty and his wife Maria de la Gracia (Gata) were in Toronto for five days last week for our annual Board of Directors strategy session. Because Ian is only here once a year, the 5 days cram meetings with supporters, advisors, a potential remote technology partner, a fundraising lunch and a […]
A few weeks ago I was heading to Huadhua to check in on the Biblioteca project. I was set to arrive much earlier than normal, so I decided to stop and enjoy the view of a nearby lake from which the community gets its name. I parked the truck and stepped out into the cool […]