In Peru

Holiday celebration in the Andes

Posted December 21, 2021 @ 10:35am

It was a much anticipated Holiday celebration in our communities of Chaquipampa, Andabamba & Patahuasi. Due to the pandemic and the rural hamlets taking extreme caution, Humberto & Mey Valdivia were unable to make the journey last December. They did send presents and other donated requested...

A unique comunidad visit

Posted December 20, 2019 @ 6:15pm

Since 1999, most of the Ebertz family has been involved with the Comunidad projects, in some fashion. Perhaps only as indirect donors being children of my siblings, or as in the case with my nephew Vince, it was his first non-profit donation he ever made at the young age of 18, he had...

2019 School Year Progress

Posted June 30, 2019 @ 7:29pm

Due to the very generous donation of a wonderful couple of friends from a past Peru trip, Comunidad’s 2019 school year is covered until the end of the school year Dec 20, 2019. This means over 300 healthy daily lunches, hygiene services and a new bathroom, improved and well lit...

Winding up the 2018 school year

Posted November 23, 2018 @ 7:06pm

I always feel so grateful to have the opportunity to spend time in a few of the communities we’ve worked in. Over Thanksgiving, it was Patahuasi and Corozón de Ñaupaus. These two hamlets, high up in the Andes, have alot to be proud of. Patahuasi has it’s...

Patawasi Progress

Posted June 19, 2018 @ 12:29pm

At the end of the year we posted about a family who traveled to Peru with ArtAndes three years ago, and the fact that they had generously set up a fund in Comunidad’s name with the request “to ask that whatever is decided is sustainable or jump starts an initiative that has...

Happy Holidays from Comunidad

Posted November 28, 2017 @ 7:14pm

Happy Holidays,A USAID operative in Lima, Peru, told Comunidad not long ago that we’ve made more of an impact at a grassroots level relatively speaking, than the US government could accomplish in the Comunidad communities, mired in all its red tape and bureaucracy. This is because...

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