There have been some questions regarding what exactly I'll be doing in Peru. I will be working with the German NGO, INTIWAWA (Quechua for "Children of the Sun").
The website's presentations of the organization reads:
The primary goal of our organization is to help young men and woman and – together with them - improve their everyday situation. At this point we mainly work in San Isidro, a small village of about 90 families, located approximately 45 minutes from Arequipa.
The inhabitants of this village suffer from malnutrition, lack of education, alcoholism and domestic violence. Missing sanitary arrangements and unclean water lead to diseases caused by the lack of hygiene. Furthermore there is a constant shortage of financial capacity to afford basic human requirements such as medicine or a proper water supply system.
The aim of Intiwawa is to fight existing problems as well as research and fight the cause of these problems in order to prevent their development in the first place.
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