Peru Painting and Playing

After a fun day of whitewater rafting, Project Peru was back to work. Their work on Monday consisted of painting a pre-school room and playing with the kids. Check out the pictures of their work!

                 

                 

Getting Things Done in Peru!!

We received an email from Ms. Cronin and Ms. Ryan about the Winterim group in Peru!  They sent some photos as well. Check out the slideshow of their photos below or go the their Picasa Photo Album to have a closer look at all of them.

Hello!

Project Peru students just spent the last three days in the small community of Arin. While they were there they built new, clean stoves for six families. They did amazing work with incredible attitudes. 

The project consisted of them making adobe by stomping (with bare feet) clay, guinea pig hair, straw, water, and cactus juice. After that was mixed they put together the stove with blocks similar to bricks and adobe. The finished project was amazing and the families could not have been more grateful. 

When they were not working- our students played with the kids in the community and practiced their Spanish. It was adorable how quickly our students and the community children got attached. It was sad to say good-bye today but we left with new friends and six very happy families. 

Tomorrow [Sunday] we will be whitewater rafting and on Monday we head to a Pre-school for more service work. 

Theresa and Courtney

Flying at Night

Students in Project Peru left the US Monday afternoon and flew overnight to Cusco, Peru. Tomorrow they will be oriented to the Clean Stove Project and perform volunteer work for this mission (the link provides information from a volunteer organization, which may not be the organization we are using.) The purpose of this project is to install more efficient and clean non-wood burning stoves in homes.  The wood burning stoves used in the homes are often not well ventilated, causing smoke inhalation related health issues for the families, especially for the women and children of the home.

Next week they will be volunteering at a non-profit pre-school, helping with repairs and playing with the children. We hope they had a restful flight overnight and are enjoying their first moments in Peru today!

UPDATE - we received an email from the faculty leaders at 12:45 p.m. our time:

Hello everyone!

After long travels, we have made it to Cusco, Peru! We were greeted by our lovely guide, Lucho, at the airport and we are currently in our hotel, showered and almost ready for lunch. Everything went smoothly and we are looking forward to getting our trip started. We will be exploring various parts of Cusco today and heading to our clean stove service project tomorrow.

See you all at the end of next week!

Theresa Ryan and Courtney Cronin