Inca Trail Peru Trek June 2009

We are a team of members from across the United States that is trekking the Inca Trail to the ancient city Machu Picchu. While doing so, we are also raising money to better the educational opportunities in Peru. We have partnered with Peruvian Hearts because of their commitment to improving education and nutrition standards in Peru.

Scott Bromley photo

My name is Scott Bromley. I live and go to school in Golden, CO at the Colorado School of Mines. I am majoring in Mechanical Engineering with Humanitarian Engineering and Economics Minors. I am graduating in December 2009, and currently work for GE in Longmont. Through my senior design project, I am helping a village in western Kenya design a structure that can catch rainwater and serve as a shower/laundry facility as well as a community meeting place. As part of this, education on the importance of hygiene and clean water is paramount. If I grow up, I hope to work in a sustainable engineering field such as alternative energy or transportation. In my short existence, I have found that I am happiest around those who, like me, aim to lose sight of the ground.

 

Lee Sullivan photo

My name is Lee Sullivan and this is my second adventure as part of Education Elevated. I met Gerri at a Nepal presentation and then became involved with the Base Camp Mt. Everest 2008 climb. After the thrilling experience of climbing to Everest, I feel empowered to do the same work elsewhere in the world. Education Elevated’s hike-a-thon concept is truly one-of-a-kind and I wanted to make use of the concept while in Peru. I’m currently a senior at the University of Colorado at Boulder studying Political Science of Asia. My interest in international education was sparked three years ago on a teaching assignment in China. Since then, I’ve returned to China a total of three times to teach English to under-privileged children.


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Peruvian Hearts

Changing the world, one heart at a time.

 

24918 Genesee Trail Road

Golden, CO 80401

303.526.2756

www.peruvianhearts.org

peruvianhearts@gmail.com

 

  The mission of Peruvian Hearts is to enrich the lives of children living in Peru through improved nutrition, education, and health care. Peruvian Hearts has collected and distributed money, school supplies, vitamins, medicine, books, stuffed animals, toiletries and other such items to help enrich the lives of many children. Peruvian Hearts strives to provide the additional resources needed in order to provide them with an environment that protects and nurtures them physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Peruvian Hearts supports the 20 girls who are living at the Hogar Mercedes de Jesus Molina in Anta, Peru. The Hogar Mercedes de Jesus Molina is a small orphanage for abused and abandoned girls. It is located in a rural area in the small town of Anta, just outside Cusco in the Andes Mountains. The Hogar is home to 20 girls between the ages of six and seventeen years of age. Resources are extremely limited, and Peruvian Hearts seeks to provide additional support, which will enable the Sisters at the Hogar to give the children the opportunities they need to heal and to grow, helping to empower them with the opportunity of education.

Peruvian Hearts is also involved in several breakfast and lunch programs in the towns of Anta, Lamay, Yanque, and Pampallacta that feed a daily breakfast, lunch and a multivitamin to about 500 children daily. Some of these children walk 2-3 hours each day to and from school.  By providing these children with daily multivitamins, Peruvian Hearts is trying to fight malnutrition and allow these children to go to school each day without being hungry.