This January, a group of 25 students from the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) traveled down to the Sacred Valley to put their semester-long theories into practice. What began as a Policy Analysis course in Monterey with Professor Jeffrey Dayton-Johnson segued into a field course that placed students in Calca, Lares, Choquecancha, and Suyo, […]
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Guest Post by Anja Mondragon, Community Social Change Workshop, April 2013 Community development: what does it mean to me? Unfortunately, it’s not that simple and really I’m not the community in question. I’ll be quite frank, I’ve operated under the assumption that the communities I want to work with will want money and a sustainable income. […]
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Guest Post by Sean Huber (Team Peru January 2013), Community Social Change Workshop, April 2013 Developing a framework for understanding how to repeat the process of community social change is incredibly difficult and involves far too many factors and variables that need to be addressed. The most apparent observation is that there is ambiguity, so […]
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Guest Post by Benedicte Gyllensten (Team Peru Summer 2012), Community Social Change Workshop, April 2013 I spent two months as a part of Team Peru last summer, working on a photo project in the small village of Pampacorral. I wanted to take part in the Community Social Change workshop because I thought it would be a […]
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Guest Post by Kate DiMercurio, Community Social Change Workshop, April 2013 Over the course of the semester, I worked with a group to write a case study of the Andean Alliance’s work with the Wiñay Warmy weaving group in Choquecancha. We were tasked with learning about the project, the primary stakeholders, what was working, what wasn’t, […]
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Guest Post by Noah Brod, Community Social Change Workshop, April 2013 One of the takeaways from the past weekend for me has been the usefulness of even ad-hoc, informal frameworks. Our class ended up seeing “community social change” as a process that touches upon 9 natural categories: Power, participatory development and ownership, process versus outcome […]
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Guest Post by Judy Mavroleon, Community Social Change Workshop, April 2013 Conducting research and preparing case studies prior to actually participating in the Community Social Change workshop really helped clarify the situation in the Peruvian Sacred Valley (PSV). It allowed us to observe the many activities and key issues surrounding the numerous stakeholders in that region. […]
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We have spent a good chunk of the first half of the summer traveling around to different towns (as Monica noted in her post below) posing some very pointed questions to leaders of various NGOs. Now that we’ve had time to aggregate a good amount of variety in our interviews, some overarching themes have […]
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Continuing from the work that January’s Team Peru students completed for the NGO Network, Katie, Caitlin, Nadine, and I have immersed ourselves in this ongoing, multilayered project. After a year of network events, conferences, and dialogue, our mission this summer is to determine the next tangible step for the Sacred Valley Network. Traveling to Cuzco, […]
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Check out this video to learn more about Team Peru and the project opportunities for Summer 2012. Enjoy! [youtube vcBnmHkjX8Yk]
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