Fragil Survival in the Sacred Valley

The Sacred Valley is full of paradoxes. Stunning vertical landscapes. Tourism and a hippy mecca. Andean Waldorf schools. And grinding poverty…
I first meet up with Sandra and Sandy: two good natured, down-to-earth Canadians who are volunteering in Peru. Sandra with Kuasay Wasi Clinic (http://kausaywasi.org/) and Sandy with DESEA, Desarrollo en Accion (www.deseaperu.org), Green Empowerment’s new [...]

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Water the Price of Gold

An elderly woman, wrapped in a hand-knit shawl tells me “Agua es vida,” water is life. Here in the highland communities of the Tumbaden district of San Pablo province in northern Peru, water is not taken for granted. It seeps from shallow holes in the meadows of high grasses, running in narrow streams through fields [...]

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Health Post Tech and Characters of San Pablo

At 5 am I waited until other passengers came to fill up the taxi. Eventually there were 4 of us in the back seat, 3 up front, and 2 in the hatch-back trunk. The car was so full that I didn’t feel that bad about my sleepy head bobbing on the shoulder of the woman [...]

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