Location District of Sicchez, Province of Ayabaca, Department of Piura, Peru Community Description In 2010, 427 cases of parasites were reported and 310 cases of diarrheal illness were treated in the health post. 46% of examined children were found chronically malnourished. The children of Sicchezpampa are adversely affected by this reality. Mental and physical developments […]
This project is for the covering of the community spring and the construction of a small catchment box to provide clean water to the people of Parina, Peru. The project is being implemented under the direction of Kristen Gunther, a graduate student at the Loma Linda University School of Public Health, and Suma Marka, a […]
Location La Isla de Asia, Cañete, Lima, Perú Community Description La Isla is a rural community on the coast of southern Peru. It is bordered by the ocean to the west and mountains to the east. The community’s name translates to “The Island”—a name perhaps chosen because although La Isla is six miles inland, it […]
This project has been completed under the direction of Peace Corps Volunteer Patrick Sullivan. To read about the beginning of the project, CLICK HERE. The project was to build a bathroom at the pre-school. Patrick reports: The pictures show the construction and the final product. (He notes that the bathroom has since been painted.) The […]
This project has been completed under the direction of Peace Corps Volunteer Matt Inbush. To read about the beginning of the project, CLICK HERE. This project, as part of a larger Healthy Homes and Dry Bathrooms project, was to construct 60 “dry bathrooms”, one for each family in the community. Matt reports: The project’s goals […]
Water Charity Project Huabalito and La Botella are small farming annexes of Sausal, the village where Peace Corps Volunteer Matthew Fuller lives and works, and where 22 and 25 families live respectively. Each community is entirely dependent on export and subsistent farming as an economic activity, including the production of grapes and sugar for export. […]
Location Sincape, Olmos, Lambayeque, Peru Community Description Sincape is a small rural community making up one of the dozens of annex communities that form the town of Olmos in the northern region of the department of Lambayeque in Peru. It is a small impoverished village of about 135 families, or 600. Classified as a dry […]
This project has been completed under the direction of Peace Corps Volunteer Erica Locher. To read about the beginning of the project, CLICK HERE. The project was to install an electric water pump at the primary school in order to pump water from the school’s well into an above-ground tank. Erica reports: The first step […]
This project has been completed under the direction of Peace Corps Volunteer Sara Mascola. To read about the beginning of the project, CLICK HERE. This project was to install an electric water pump, and to connect the well to the bathrooms and the elevated water tanks that serve the school. Sara reports on the background […]
Huanaco, Peru is a community of approximately 140 households and 600 inhabitants. The vast majority of the adults in the community work in the fields of agricultural companies, from sun-up to sun-down, six days a week, for approximately ten U.S. dollars a day. Eighty-two percent of the homes have a latrine that was built by […]