Project Update, Patatinta, 2015 Review
Year end review, Document H. PATATINTA H. PATATINTA
From the Field
Project Update, Huadhua, 2015 Review
Year end review, Document H. HUADHUA, 2015
Project Update, Sariry, 2015 Review
Year end review, Document H, Sariry 2015
Project Update, Manos Unidas, 2015 Review
Year end review, Document H, Manos Unidas, 2015
Project Update, Cochirhuay, 2015 Review
Year end review, Document H, Cochirhuay, 2015
Project Update, Colcha, 2015 Review
Year end review, H. COLCHA
Project Update, Alumni Project, 2015 Review
Year end review, Document H- PROYECTO ALUMNI 2015
Project Update: Teacher Training, 2015 Review
Year end review, Document H- Capacitacion de Profesores
Project Update – Araypallpa, 2015 Review
Year end review, Document H for Araypallpa.
“My most recent adventure, however, may top them all.”
Working in the field brings a lot of adventures, especially because Alma makes an effort to reach isolated communities where no one else is willing to work. One time I was almost swept away by a rain-charged glacial river on my motorcycle at 4,000 meters above sea level, later having to spend the frigid night […]
Camino Nuevo
Today was the most emotionally difficult day that I have had so far in Peru. We visited three projects, all in Cusco, but this blog will focus on the first project, Camino Nuevo (New Pathway), as it is the one that left the most impactful impression on me. Phil, Octavio, Andrea, Alma’s Bolivian representative, and […]
Project Update Asociación La Restinga December 2015
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Interview With Doris
Kallpanchis Biblioteca Doris Pacco, 15, Cusco. Doris is a self-possessed young girl. I can tell immediately that she takes great care in dressing well, standing straight and still, and giving very serious eye contact in conversation. Altogether the effect is very sweet, yet somehow quite impressive. So Doris, how long have you been coming to […]
Project Update: Biblioteca Kallpanchis – December 2015
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The Boys from Cusco
Today we visited an after school program on the outskirts of Cusco, in a neighbourhood named Kallpanchis. We took a cab up one of the mountains with Octavio and several others from Hope, one of Alma’s partner organizations, crossing over the train tracks in the middle of this neighbourhood and arriving at the […]
Interview with Guillermina
At 10am I made my way down to the bus terminal in Cusco. It was unlike any experience I had ever had trying to find a bus. There were many large white vans, and in front of them were the drivers, who were yelling at each and every passerby encouraging them to get into their […]
Project Update: Ibiato-Pata de Aguila – October 2015
Project Update: Ibiato-Pata de Aguila – October 2015 Click here to read the most recent update from our Ibiato-Pata de Aguila project. (Text is in Spanish).
A Special Lunch
In Patabamba, the air is scented with eucalyptus and munia, a mountain mint. We are about 3000 feet above the valley floor, 13000 feet above sea level, and across the valley the clouds disclose white, crisp, and mineralized Andean peaks. Between clouds, the sky is blue like a promise. The hills around us are […]
Happiness is…
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 […]
Working with Young Indigenous Girls in Cusco
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 […]