Chincha PICTURES

Riding in on the bus to Chincha, Ica, Peru. As you can see, it looks slightly different from the Andean Sierra. . . BUT, to my surprise there were mountains.. Also, the squares you see are actually people's houses. People live with their families of two to six children in spaces as big as most of our living rooms.
















This photo was taken from the rooftop of the place that we are staying in Sunampe, a small community just outside of Chincha. The CARE office made it through the earthquake relatively unscathed, the building next door...not so lucky.















One of the communities that we are working in called Satelite Primaveral. They have the straw huts and no water (a water truck comes once a week with a common tank and then the families come with their buckets to get water for the week.) And no electricity.
















This is our CARE counterpart Marianne (white long sleeved shirt) in a meetig with the authorities of the community pictured above. Discussing the letrines and some problems that the community has encountered.
















Devina is working hard drilling holes in boards to construct the letrines (I helped too but they're isn't a picture of me...) :(





















We painted a letrine for the presentation that CARE made to the minister of development of Canada! Here it is with the infectious cyclce described on the side. Woohoo!!















Devina, Aaaron, Me, Marianne, person, standing in front of our pretty letrine. It took a long time to paint that thing.
















If you can make it out, this is a map of Peru and where the earthquake hit. The circles denote the epicenter of the quake.
















These are the employees of CARE, us, and the Canada delegation that dropped by!
















In case you were wondering what the CARE logo looked like...
















This was taken on the central plaza of Sunampe, where we are staying. More of the desctruction from the earthquake.















Sorry, I didn't realize that this was going to come out sideways... Anyway, the volunteers put on a Hygiene Fair and here I am putting up signs for the fair and making unsuspecting children pose with me in pictures. :)

















This is what the base should look like before the letrine arrives! Good job, family!

-- More commentary and pictures on the way! Look at the entry just before this for my first few days in Chincha notes.... --