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Spring 2010
Sometimes you just know you are in the right place, at the right time. When heavy rains and flooding in the Cusco area arrived in late January,…
- Joe, Tori and Jeff with pastors, staff and missionaries at San Jeronimo Mennonite Church
- We organized a health education day in Lucre
- Students register for free doses of anti-parasite medication
- Our service guide, Willy, teaches how to avoid parasites
- Learning how to brush teeth
- We distributed hygeine kits packed in hand-sewn bags
- With rain comes hope…
Three students are serving in a new province this semester. Ayacucho is located high in the Andes, an historically important region that hosted the final battle of…
- The Andean city of Ayacucho
- Elizabeth with several members of her host family on the roof of their home
- View from the roof
- Walking to the school where she teaches
- William Thompson School
- Talking with her host father
- Playing outside
- Playing inside
- Learning a new game
- The village of Quinua
- Vidas Health Clinic in Quinua
- Joshua registers patients as they arrive at the clinic
- With the laboratory technician
- Making housecalls
- Arriving at the home of a young man whose spine was severed in an accident
- A memorable visit
- A relative of the paralyzed teen roasts avas (beans) over a fire
- Corn planted with avas, which help to feed the soil
- A local artist depicts Jesus riding a donkey toward Jerusalem
- With Quechua-speaking girls
- Monument to the Battle of Ayacucho (1821)
- Memories of the battle
- The Peruvian flag waves over the battlefield
- Kessa with her host mother
- Preparing a kindergarten classroom
- With her host father and school staff
- Taking a walk
- “Tuna”, or cactus fruit
- Museum of Memory — terrorists versus the military
- Mural on the wall of the museum
- Graphic depictions of violent acts by both sides in the conflict
- “Never again”
Most of Lima’s population is made up of recent immigrants from the Andes or rain forest who inhabit the “cones” located to the north, east and south…
Friday night we celebrated our time here in Lima with a big party, or despedida, for our families and friends. We thanked the host families for welcoming…
What do people living on the margins south of Lima need more than anything else? There are many answers to this question, but the one that first…
We have developed a series of workshops this semester focused on how artists and artisans — dancers, musicians, cooks and others with particular talents — support themselves….
We traveled an hour south of Lima and found ourselves in another world. Before our adventure we asked the students two questions: (1) Are you ready for…
We appreciate your patience waiting for our blog to be restored. While the folks at Goshen College were dealing with the technical issues required to re-build the…
After a lively presentation by our coordinator, Celia, about life with Peruvian families, we arrived at Home Peru to find our host families ready and waiting. We…
There is so much to learn when you first arrive. We settled into the living room at Goshen Tambo on our first morning of orientation and asked…
