Project Update: Suyacuyhuan Yachasun – March 2014
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Alma launches “Reforzamiento Academico” in Ccotohuincho – March 2014
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“The most wonderful time of the year…”
In Canada, the first day of school is surrounded by such buzz and hype that it’s hard to ignore – even if you don’t have children. That tongue-in-cheek Staples commercial begins airing mid-summer and it seems that stores start stocking pencils and paper mere hours after the school doors are locked in June. And as children […]
Project Pictures: Mosoq Runa
A little perspective…
February is Kindergarten registration month in Toronto. I have found the whole process to be incredibly stressful, wringing my hands over questions like: Is our home school good enough? Should we put our names in for one of the “alternative” schools? Montessori? Should I enrol him at all? Will he have access to the resources […]
The Women of Marccuray
I thought that it was necessary to write about my last visit to the Nutrition Program in the community of Marccuray. After various failed attempts to get a meeting going with all the members of the project (this mainly had to do with Marccuray being the most isolated community we work in, and with failure […]
Project Update: Markuray Rayan – Feb 2014
Following on the success of Chamana project, Alma begins work in Markuray. Feb 2014 – Read More >>
GC4C Visits Patacancha
Last month Chafika Eddine, a director at Global Change for Children (GC4C), visited the Patacancha Trout Farm and wrote about her experience: “Since its creation in 2008, the Global Change for Children Foundation (GC4C) has funded over 20 projects in four different countries. It is always so gratifying for any of us involved with GC4C […]
The Children of Tucsa
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, […]
Two things that make my way up to Marccuray a lot easier.
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: […]
Project Update: Tucsa Biblioteca – January 2014
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Disaster in Patacancha
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 […]
Walter recognized with “The Order of Orange-Nassua”
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 […]
An early Christmas present
I got an early Christmas present last week as I witnessed for the first time of my life a true NATURAL LLAMA BIRTH, in the middle of my trip to our new project in Tucsa. It is summer down here in he Andes, although saying that just does not feel right because most days it […]
Project Update: Colcha School Expansion Project – December 2013
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Project Update: Patabamba Academy – December 2013
An update report for Patabamba Academy. December 2013 – Read More >>
Project Update: Sariry – Bolivia – December 2013
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Project Update: Sihua Primary School – December 2013
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Project Update: Biblioteca Kallpanchis – December 2013
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Patabamba closing ceremony
The Patabamba Academy Closeout. By Yannick Wende, Program Director And once again, time just flew by! I had barely realized how quick time went by and that we were already at the time in the year, where a project ends. In this case it was a bittersweet feeling to come to the day where this […]