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Fall 2012
Peru is a “middle-income” country: the average Peruvian earns the equivalent of $10,160 per year, taking into account the local exchange rate and cost of living. But…
Lima is a desert — the area receives less than an inch of rainfall each year. How does this city produce enough food for 8 million people? …
We often take for granted the pipes that bring drinking water into our homes and take waste water away to the treatment center. But what would it…
Peru has a proud past. The Inca civilization is most notable, but many other cultures thrived in this part of the world thousands of years before the…
After two days of orientation the students moved out of the Miraflores House and prepared themselves to meet their new host families. Members of the families appeared…
Lima is a different world, a growing metropolis that straddles the narrow desert plain between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean. The area receives only a…
They are here, at last! After a four-hour delay in Miami, eighteen weary but patient Goshen College students passed through the immigration and customs area at Lima’s…
This semester makes history: For the first time, students coming to Peru to study Spanish will be joined by those studying Sign Language. We will all be…
As directors of the Peru Study Service Term, we are halfway through our two-year assignment. The month of August provided an opportunity to renew our spirits as…
