Connecting with Peru - that was the main purpose of our mission; to serve our brothers and sisters in Peru.
When you open your eyes and arms to those around you, you can make marvelous connections. As an example, on our flight from Lima to Piura (en route to Paita) we happened to sit next to an gentleman who told us of his own outreach to the people of Peru.
He described how he had sold his civil engineering business to work with farmers near Piura. He created a program, Piura en Accion (https://www.facebook.com/PiuraAccion/), where they grow Fair Trade organic bananas and table grapes for sale.
The proceeds are then split between the growers and a fund to help support projects in their local community. The growers vote on which projects they want to fund.
Their choice of the first project was not in their own community, rather it was to help provide clean drinking water to a neighboring community.
What a wonderful example of the cascading effect of people helping people helping people. Pay it forward!
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