Linda Crow:
CLASS OF 1976
James Madison High SchoolClass of 1976
Vienna, VA
Linda's Story
Life
It's been two years now in Huancayo,Peru, and this week the CD is being mixed.FINALLY! Huancayo now really feels like home,as all the adjusting to this culture is behind me (I think).I'm also soon opening a night restaurant,and starting an English practice course in my home. Between the 3 projects,we will launch projects to help the impoverished people here, and in smaller pueblos.
Our goal is to change the way people think here, through the music, and to affect change through the upcoming projects.
It's still difficult to maintain health, but in that I fit right into the culture, as the majority of people here aren't healthy either.
Peru is so beautiful.Huancayo is on the border of desert and highland jungle, and I still hope to make it to the deep jungle someday. We visited and took supplies to a pueblo a few weeks ago on the top of huge mountain;not sure of the altitude, but unlike Huancayo,which at 11k ft. is is a small valley(small meaning from the top of the mountains), this mountains valley was 1.000's of fe...Expand for more
et down. It was a one lane dirt road,and the pueblo is my friend's fathers' hometown. There's a truck that helps serve the community, the only vehicle in the pueblo. We brought rice, sugar,shortening and clothes, but without even a store there, it wasn't sufficient. It was so beautiful there,many wild flowers they use for medicinal purposes and teas, a purple flowering bush that produces berries they use as a natural clothes detergent, and the crops mostly potatoes and corn, they harvest as a community for private use and selling for other needs.
With so much attention to third world countries, it seems as though the developing countries are sorely overlooked. Fifty percent of the people here live in poverty conditions of varying degrees.
Although Peru seems to be growing in popularity in volunteering, most of the projects here are designed to provide the host families with a better life, and nothing more. Something Juan Daniel and I hope to change when we find a home big enough and have funds to create our NPO. A true NPO.
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