Saturday, January 28 Some inspiring projects in the Cono Sur are the bio-huertas, or urban gardens, where those in surrounding low-income neighborhoods use vacant lots to grow fruits and vegetables. A video, From the Earth to the Pot, describes several bio-huertas in Lima. The project organizer, Senora…
A two-day visit in the Cono Sur – Part 2 Friday, January 27 For the rest of this afternoon the students engaged in sporting activities: Frisbee, volleyball, and, for 2 hours, soccer. The Frisbee and soccer took place in the neighborhood’s park area under high tension powerlines where houses…
Friday, January 27 We spent Friday and Saturday in the Cono Sur, the southern region of Lima that, like the area we visited on Friday of last week, saw explosive growth in recent decades from massive influxes of people from other parts of the country. Most residents of Lima…
Wednesday, January 25 Dusti and Amber use some of the molds for clay figures that are mass produced. We have all seen stores, like Ten Thousand Villages, that sell artisan crafts from abroad, but this week students learned what it means to buy those handicrafts via fair trade…
Monday, January 23 The teacher explains to the students how to make a Shipibo design. In the center of very urban Lima we visited Cantagallo, a tiny part of the Amazon jungle that lives in the hearts of a few hundred indigenous Shipibo people from the far…
Friday, January 20 Mighty Meghan gets a small souvenir to take back to Goshen. Today we drove 25 miles north to Puente Piedra, an area more typical of where most people live in this sprawling capital city of 10 million. The outer regions of Lima, known as…
Monday and Tuesday, January 16-17 Gabby gets the low-down on vegetable prices. The rapid changes of the first 4 days in Peru is giving way this week to the routines that will take them through the next 5 weeks. One of those routines is learning how to…
Friday, January 13 Our tour guide in the Santo Domingo church and convent. Today the students became familiar with Lima’s historic center, once the very center of the Spanish empire in South America. To learn more about the Catholic tradition in Peru we visited the Santo Domingo…
Thursday, January 12 After sleeping in from their late night arrival, Doug picked up the students for a 15-minute walk to Casa Goshen, the SST house where Maria and Doug live and have their office. After some introductions and a reflection on SST as a pilgrimage, we took…
The flight with all 14 of the students arrived on time last night at 12:30 a.m., although it wasn’t until almost 2:00 a.m. that we were all ready to leave the airport for a late-night drive through Lima. By 3 a.m. all the students were tucked into their beds at a…
