Picking up from where Katie left off in the last blog, we are moving forward with the Social Enterprise project. For me personally, working for the first several weeks from the house in Calca on the supply chain and marketing side of the INKAcase project came to a new level during our first visit to […]
Continue Reading Add comment July 31, 2012
In choosing to begin a graduate program in International Development, I felt particularly drawn to the Monterey Institute of International Studies due to the special emphasis placed on language. For a while now, I’ve sensed this growing desire to use my Spanish professionally and in a way that would satisfy some need for an organization, […]
Continue Reading 2 comments July 19, 2012
This January Team Peru celebrated the last corn harvest in Ruben’s Chakra (field) in his hometown of Choquecancha. It was the second year Team Peru traveled to Choquecancha for a day of festivities, feasting, and games in the corn field. In this picture, one of the women sprinkles flower petals on Team Peru’s heads as a sign […]
Continue Reading 1 comment June 11, 2012
I’ve been blessed to travel across East Africa twice, to trek through Southeast Asia and the island of Australia, but I continue to be surprised by the power the world has to change me. Working with the women in Choquecancha has shown me once again what it is like to learn and grow in ways […]
Continue Reading 1 comment January 27, 2012
Sitting in the rural Peruvian community of Choquecancha in the center of the women’s weaving group, a sudden awareness strikes. We are surrounded by buildings made primarily of mud and stone that seemingly could crumble with one good earth tremor, the bathroom is a small outdoor shack with a hole in the ground, our meals […]
Continue Reading Add comment January 25, 2012
My time in the United States has been marred by the incredibly ineffective and potentially harmful farming practices propagated by United States farming companies. There is now a huge disconnect between what is placed on our dining tables and the factors that lead to it’s production, such as: the chemicals being placed into our soil […]
Continue Reading Add comment January 17, 2012