Chincha Project Update

Chincha turned out to be a fantastic project with so much to offer. During my time we dug the sistern, solid septic tank, perforated tank, leveled a basketball sized area by hand, built columns, rendered, and above all helped a local community get a few steps closer to a brand-new earthquake resistant school.


Yet, the work is no-where near complete and more help is needed. On the horizon work includes the completion of the patio, construction of the re-bar reinforced septic systems, begin new foundations for an additional three classrooms, and complete the original section of the school that is currently being rendered. So, if anyone is interested, please contact this group to give you the low down. Short-term help is certainly welcome, but long-term assistance would be amazing.

The new house is great. Only found one scorpion in my pants once, but at least it didn´t sting anything...haha. I am jokingly not joking, but seriously the house has come along nicely since our first days of completing electrical circuits in the shower with our heads. "Ouch, can someone go flip the breaker at the neighbor´s house?"



With some sadness and a little bit of uneasiness, I must be on my way, continuing my trek north towards a destination unknown. My time here in Pisco and Chincha with BWB was amazing. I arrived as the 200Th volunteer and during the past 9 weeks I have had the pleasure of working with over 100 new faces. The "long-termers" make it home, but many of the fresh faces are the source of energy and moral a group of hard-working, hard-living folk need.