Site Development

April 15th, 2008 Yapatera, Peru

Site Development II

This time Wilfredo, Luiggi and I headed out to Yapatera to conduct a formal meeting with various townspeople. I was very impressed with Wilfredo and Peace Corps in general. Peace Corps does a really good job informing the people of the role of the volunteer as well as gauging the level of community interest in a volunteer. The town was left with a list of homework duties such as determining 3 possible host families. Wilfredo instructed these community leaders to call him when they had completed their homework in order to set up another meeting.

April 10th, 2008 Yapatera, Peru

Site Development

Peace Corps is constantly looking for new sites to place volunteers and current volunteers play a large role suggesting possible sites. Therefore, Ryan and I headed out to a town called Yapatera near Chulucanas. It is an Afro-Peruvian community, founded hundreds of years ago when slaves were imported to work in the sugar cane fields. Mario and Luiggi accompanied us and were a great help since they knew the local mayor. We set up a meeting for Tuesday with the Peace Corps regional coordinator, Wilfredo.