Trout Farm Managers Birthday. It is not a common thing to go to a community and spend a birthday ceremony like the typical western birthday ceremonies that we so kindly prepare for our loved ones every time there is this special date around. Andean birthdays are celebrated in a much smaller scale, especially in economically […]
AVELINO HUAMAN POMA , Avelino is a 6 year old Patacancha native, over many times that I have visited Patacancha, I have seen him wandering around the trout farm, quiet but happy, just watching how the trout move and swim. I have spoken with him on some occasions, and asked him, what do you want […]
An update report on Kiya Survivors Project. November 2013 – Leer más >>
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Following on the success of Chamana project, Alma begins work in Markuray. Nov 2013 – Read More >>
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By Yannick Wende, Program Director Last week was a one of the most meaningful weeks in the Marccuray Nutrition program, as the very anticipated date of the arrival and delivery of the animals was finally about to happen. It took long months of hiking up and down the steep hillside to go and check how […]
By Yannick Wende, Program Director Last week I had the strongest epiphany at work thus far in my working experience with the Alma Foundation. There I was on one of my usual visits to our project in Marccuray, it was late afternoon and time for me to head back down the one hour hike to […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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An update report for Patabamba Academy. September 2013 – Read More >>
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 […]
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 […]
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