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Week 5: Sumpango and Santa Rosa
25 June 2015 We’re so close to finishing working at Sumpango! The irrigation system was put into place on each of the raised beds on Tuesday. Next week, we’ll just […]
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Our final week in the Jungle!
Our last week in the jungle snuck up on us like the ever-elusive jaguar we never saw! We spent these days wrapping up the final activities of our project. On […]
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Week 5 Update from Peru
Trip to Pevas On Monday we took a day trip over to Pevas, a small city located roughly an hour and a half away from the field station. Traveling with […]
McGill University, Peru, Project Amazonas -
Jungle Update – week 4
This week, we started our tree nursery program in the school of Santo Tomas. It was the first day of a 4-session program with the school. We went once this […]
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The Wheels Are In Motion
Note: This post details the events of our previous week’s work, not the work of this current week. We have been incredibly busy building cocinas mejoradas and preparing materials for […]
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Wrapping Up
The Rice University Summer 2015 project has come to a happy close this past week, as the final touches were placed upon both the electrical and water pumping systems. All […]
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Week 3: The Adventure Continues!
Hello Readers!!! We have officially completed our 3rd week at the Sehgal Foundation where we are working to implements toilets in the villages and teach good sanitation and hygiene practices. […]
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Week 4: Progress, collaboration, and more worms
18 July 2015 This Tuesday we finally got to meet Gloria, the Sumpango cooperativa’s president. We learned that the cooperativa has had a few issues with communication and transparency in […]
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The Start of Something Nuevo
We have been really enjoying our first week and a half here in Peru. The delay in posting comes as the cost of an extremely busy schedule and very spotty […]
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UF & UTK Chapters Take India- Week 2!
Hello readers! 🙂 We have now completed week 2 of the the project! This week involved IEC material, micro planning, and ,as always, research. The night before the work week […]
Sehgal Foundation, University of Florida, University of Tennessee- Knoxville