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Stories from Week 1

First Impressions/Travelling to Kagadi Sunday May 29th 2016. We flew into the Entebbe airport in Uganda and boy are our arms still tired! Anyways, after several months of preparation, three […]
2016, Chapter/ University, Georgia Tech, Uganda, Uganda Rural Development and Training Programme
Departure (Miami International Airport)

Despite the frenzy of last minute setbacks and preparations, our team of four is finally ready for our work with CECAM Bolivia in the city of Cochabamba. As a team, […]
2016, Bolivia, Boston College, Sustainable Bolivia
Ready for Takeoff!

Our trip hasn’t even started, and it’s already been an adventure! Julia was put on an earlier flight, so she had to rush to the airport to catch her plane. […]
2016, Mountains of Hope, Uganda, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Week 6: Rabbit Cages and Gardens

31 July 2015 Our first week of work at San Bartolo has gone really well! On Monday, we spent the day conducting market research in Antigua with hopes of finding […]
Fundación Junkabal and ByoEarth, Guatemala, UC Los Angeles, UC Santa Cruz
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 […]
Fundación Junkabal and ByoEarth, Guatemala, UC Los Angeles, UC Santa Cruz
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 […]
Emory University, MOCHE, Peru
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 […]
Fundación Junkabal and ByoEarth, Guatemala, UC Los Angeles, UC Santa Cruz
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 […]
2015, Emory University, MOCHE, Peru
Week 3: A beautiful, busy week

8 July 2015 For the past two weeks, we’ve been under the guidance of Jose who is a fairly new employee at ByoEarth. He was raised on a coffee farm […]
Fundación Junkabal and ByoEarth, Guatemala, UC Los Angeles, UC Santa Cruz
Week 2: Bonding and Planning

6 July 2015 We finished our second week of work at the Sumpango cooperativa but there is still a lot more work left to be done! Although we finished clearing […]
Fundación Junkabal and ByoEarth, Guatemala, UC Los Angeles, UC Santa Cruz, Uncategorized

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