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Development Impact Peru

Magnify Your Volunteer Efforts in Alto Progreso, Peru

Alto Progreso Peru

On the barren hillsides of Alto Progres, Peru, you can magnify your volunteer efforts by assisting families in need! Within the district of Pamplona – one of 150 destitute communities districts of Lima  – Alto Progreso’s 350 families survive amidst extreme living conditions. Within a sea of more than one million people,  children and youth grow up with intermittent electricity, no […]

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June 15, 2015/0 Comments/by Michele Gran
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Development Impact, Reaching Children's Potential Peru

Building Walls and Friendship

Building Walls and Friendship

When I asked the community of Alto Progreso what project they needed help with and they replied a wall, I honestly was a little scared. I knew they meant a 40-meter-long wall. I knew they had no machinery whatsoever. I knew it would mean a lot of sweat. But I also knew of the importance of […]

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April 30, 2015/0 Comments/by Daniel Salazar
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Development Impact, Reaching Children's Potential Peru

First Service Program at a Shanty Town in Peru

The Dimensions of Poverty

And so we finally started our service program in Alto Progreso. Alto Progreso is a struggling community of about 350 families in Pamplona Alta, in the barren hillsides of Lima. Sherry was our first volunteer for the job. Upon arrival, we did not know how things would turn up, but we had much excitement and expectation. […]

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March 27, 2015/0 Comments/by Daniel Salazar
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Volunteer Voices Peru

February at PPA – Much Love Needed and Given

Our work at PPA in Lima is just wonderful! It is a place that fills you up love, kindness, and affection because being surrounded by children and people that care for them is something that is fulfilling for the soul. What could our volunteers appreciate more than feeling not only welcome by the community but […]

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February 20, 2015/0 Comments/by globalvol
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Culture and Traditions Worldwide Peru

New Year’s in Lima

Many say Lima is like London. That is, Lima is usually foggy. But during the days after New Year’s celebration, the skies of Lima look even foggier as clouds of smoke and the smell of powder fill the skies. Just as at Christmas, Peruvians celebrate New Year’s with fireworks that start on the evening of […]

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January 23, 2015/0 Comments/by Daniel Salazar
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Development Impact, Volunteer Voices Peru

Christmas Day in Peru

Christmas day in Peru

Christmas Day in Peru, a journal entry from a volunteer serving in Peru: “Fireworks all over the place, like you have never seen before.” That was the consensus for those of us who had never spent a Christmas Eve in Lima before. The previous night, we had all sat together and shared a delicious meal next […]

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December 31, 2014/0 Comments/by Daniel Salazar
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Volunteer Voices Peru

Our Visit to Alto Progreso, Pamplona Alta

Day 10: Last day of our volunteer experience We were off in the morning through the crazy hectic traffic in Lima and arrived at our one-day experience to teach children coloring, painting, and drawing. We had a confidence in our ability to interact with children because each of us was an involved mother and we […]

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October 31, 2014/0 Comments/by Maggie Bjorklund
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Volunteer Voices Peru

Students of Life

Today was our ninth and final day at La Molina. We could not have foreseen that we would be the active learners in this ongoing exchange of respect, culture, camaraderie, and knowledge. Every day new lessons were learned – about ourselves and each other, lessons about risk-taking and vulnerability, motivation and ambition, friendship and trust, […]

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October 30, 2014/0 Comments/by Maggie Bjorklund
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Volunteer Voices Peru

Everday is a Little Bit of Heaven

We are ending our fifth day in Peru, and I have treasured three days at La Molina Language Center.  Each day is a lesson in graciousness, as my students teach me the meaning of the word by their attitudes and actions, and I teach them the definition of the word, as I thank them being […]

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October 22, 2014/0 Comments/by Maggie Bjorklund
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Volunteer Voices Peru

I Thought Our Sense of Pride was High, but…

Day 9 in Lima was a day of reflection for me – not because I had to contribute to Edith’s request to journal, but because I have learned so much on this mission experience. As an American, I thought our sense of pride was high, but after our visit to Pamplona, I would have to […]

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August 18, 2014/0 Comments/by Maggie Bjorklund
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