Meetings with the Choquecancha women’s group have always been pretty formal affairs, but I have never witnessed so much laughing, talking, and joking as I did during my two day experience with the women’s group as they began their first of several multi-day capacity building workshops. The workshops are a collaboration between the Andean […]
Continue Reading Add comment November 2nd, 2011
In January of 2011, Team Peru, representing the Andean Alliance and the Becky Fund, began organizing with two communities on greenhouse projects. It’s been eleven months since we began this endeavor and we can look back on all the hard work, challenges and successes. The Andean Alliance along with the communities of Choquecancha and Cacchin […]
Continue Reading 1 comment October 18th, 2011
Check out what the NGO Network Team has been up to this summer, pretty cool stuff.
Continue Reading 2 comments August 12th, 2011
This summer Brain Lucke, Ryan Widemon, and I are teaching a class in digital photography to the secondary class in Pampacorral. Ranging from ages 13-17, the children will be instructed on the use of the cameras and the basic fundamentals of the photography medium. The goal for this project is to provide an outlet for […]
Continue Reading 1 comment August 8th, 2011
Continue Reading 2 comments August 1st, 2011
Throughout the years it has always been a priority to coordinate our efforts with the local governments in the areas we work. In previous years this undertaking has been difficult, but fortunately a new administration was elected in January and we have a serious working relationship with the Lares government. This administration headed by Mayor […]
Continue Reading 1 comment July 29th, 2011
Tina and I are almost through our nutrition and cooking classes in Pampacorral and nearing the end of the classes in Poques; it has been a whirlwind. One goal of ours as the Health and Wellness team was to offer nutrition and cooking classes to the two communities where we have built greenhouses: Poques and […]
Continue Reading Add comment July 22nd, 2011
Current status: Fully in the mix. Danielle and I have been workin’ the brain muscles lots and lots these past weeks. Our vague-ish idea of designing a Community Savings program for some of the local women’s textile associations is really starting to take shape. For a bit of background: Traditional textiles play a very important […]
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Continue Reading 1 comment July 16th, 2011
On Thursday morning, the health and wellness team, the ag team, and the newest addition to AASD, the photography team, set out at 5:30am for Pampacorral. The road to the rural Lares region of Peru is under construction, and therefore only open for two hours a day, at 6:00am and 6:00pm. Although this doesn’t compare […]
Continue Reading 1 comment July 15th, 2011
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