Our work on the Chuchurras water distribution project is complete. This has been an immense undertaking for everyone involved throughout the entire project's life. Summarizing the project history brings a tear to my eye thinking about all the stories created, people's lives changed, and lifelong relationships developed during this time. Our work started with the community in 2019 when Deepika led a team (Deepika, Chris, Brian Roth, Spencer, Josh, & Jackie) down to complete an

Thursday marked the team's last full day working in Chuchurras. After breakfast and making the trek from Iscozacín, the EWB members arrived to find the community volunteers and heavy machinery toiling to dig the trenches and set in place the distribution piping. The EWB team split into a couple of groups, one handling the distribution system work and the other handling the aspects of operator training at the well. Today the distribution system work required a road crossing

The start to the day looked a little different than our usual journey to Chuchurras in two ways: First, with help from Camilo (our driver) per the request of Rena, we listened to Amazon cumbia (traditional music of the Amazon region) on our morning commute. It's a little different than what's on the usual radio stations back in the States, but I have no doubt that we will find a way to get it on our Spotify playlists. Second, instead of stopping once we arrived in Chuchurra

We woke up to thunder cracks, I peaked through my shades and sure enough, we have a down pour. Break out the rain gear; we still have work to do. We hopped some puddles to breakfast, and I drank that amazing Peruvian coffee to get the day started. Off to Chuchurras we went. Chris and I went to the well house to crank up the system and troubleshoot some controls while both Brians and Sarai worked on presenting the O&M manual. Rena and Paige are back in the trenches taking car

We had another busy and early day ahead of us. After breakfast, the mayor graciously arranged for trucks to transport us to the village...

Today was our final day in Chuchurras. The day started with our usual routine of breakfast, followed by an exciting ride to the...

Another exciting work day in Chuchurras, with just one more day remaining. Today we continued installing more of the water distribution...

¡Fue un día increíble! What a great day - so many things happening, all at the same time! Where to start? Today was another big community...

Much like life in general, day 6 on the project site was a rollercoaster whose progress and achievements were balanced by a daily serving...

Work continues with laying pipes and finishing the electrical.

¡Buenos Dias from sunny Iscozacin, Peru! And how crucial the sun was today, being that power was intentionally cut across Peru's Pasco...

More progress today! 1,000-ft of trench was excavated, a enormous tank (Tanques enormes) was placed, and we took inventory of all our...

Today the team arrived in Chuchurras. The day started with a community meeting to make introductions, establish goals, and coordinate...

Our EWB-MN Peru team begin their second implementation trip in Chuchurras Peru.

Work on our projects continues, even after our teams travel back home.

This summer our Santa Elena Water Project will begin construction on a well to help bring water to the local community.

Over the last few days my body has been shutting down, I have been bedridden since Wednesday with a gnarly sickness. The team continued...

Another big day for the team, all of the solar panels were installed and connected together. Tomorrow we will be able to do all of the...

Day 12 It rained most of the day today. This made it difficult to make significant progress, but progress was still made. We connected...

What a day! We welcomed three new team members (Gareth, Mark, and Paige) late last night who immediately got put to work with our busiest...