Photo of the Week: Director of Morale Schooling AASD

Last night Leroy informed us it is time to make some changes in the AASD/Team Peru blogosphere. Until this year Team Peru and AASD have shared a blog. This week Leroy has devoted countless hours laying on “Guerilla Marketing for Nonprofits.” After careful thought, he suggested that we create a separate blog for sharing AASD […]

Continue Reading Add comment June 17, 2012

Feasibility Study: INKAcase

Congratulations to Jeanne Amrein for a successful  Capstone presentation yesterday. Her work, A Feasibility Study for INKAcase, is really important for moving our INKAcase project forward both in Peru and in exploring options for selling the cases back in the United States.  While AASD and Team Peru have successfully sold the cases to friends and family, […]

Continue Reading 1 comment May 5, 2012

Team Peru: A Documentary

“Be the Solution” is our motto at the Monterey Institute for International Studies, a simple string of words that implies an expectation of responsibility and initiative. Team Peru and the Andean Alliance embody our school motto; slipping from one facet to another including personal, societal, and cultural efforts.  Adam and Aaron (the founders of Team […]

Continue Reading 2 comments April 22, 2012

The Immersive Education Tool Suite

This semester Jenny Agis, Katie Holmberg, and I teamed up for a project in our class, Designing Tools For Social Change Organizations. For one whole weekend and 3 hours almost every Wednesday evening our class has explored the role of tools in many different fields. The first few classes I’m pretty sure we were all […]

Continue Reading Add comment April 18, 2012

Organizational Sustainability students working with AASD

This semester our group of four students from the Organizational Sustainability class is working with Team Peru and the Andean Alliance on an action research paper here at MIIS. Our group is a mix of MPA and IEP students: Lauren Marasco, Kathryn Harrison, Jamie Cook and Derek Polka. We met throughout the last few months […]

Continue Reading Add comment December 16, 2011


Mission

Our mission is to provide and implement sustainable programs and projects in collaboration with the indigenous people of the Sacred Valley of Perú in an effort to improve their lives and reduce poverty in a culturally sensitive and appropriate manner. Furthermore, we work to support local NGOs with whom we have shared values using the skills and tools we possess.

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