InDepth: Yachay Wasi – An Institute of Progressive and Responsible Education

A New Focus, a New Direction Following the new trend of this blog, I will focus on sustainability amongst the social enterprises in Latin America (specifically Peru for now).  Each week I will profile certain innovative organizations that can be considered leaders of their fields in the country (or globe) spanning across the social, environmental, [...]

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An Equally Rewarding Experience and Just the Beginning

This experience was truly a rewarding one for all those involved, and inspiring as well.  The students, the coordinators, and the leaders of the organizations took away from this many positive aspects. The students left inspired by the work of many innovative and progressive leaders of the social development front and learned a great deal [...]

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A Morning to Reflect Outside

8:48am on a tuesday morning, sitting on a table outside in my yard with Peruvian music playing and my dog sitting at my side.   It has been a little more than a week since we’ve been back to North America.  To be honest, it has been quite difficult to get accustomed to this country [...]

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A majestic experience

As I sit back and reflect on this May travel course: Beyond Spanish, Sustainable Volunteering in Peru, so many thoughts come alive, I want to share with everyone what it meant as a faculty member of the University of Redlands to work with the group director, Andreas, to take  14 students, and have the joy of sharing this with Kostas. I [...]

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new eyes

It’s been a week since returning from Peru, and the trip almost seems surreal.  I know that we went to Peru and that we had all of those wonderful experiences, but at the same time it feels like we didn’t.  The only proof I have, besides the plane tickets and pictures (which seem like they could [...]

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