News & Updates
Notes from the Field
Volunteer trip 2018: A day by day summary
March 4th, 2018 We’ve arrived (at last!) in the heat and humidity of Pucallpa, ready for the week ahead with excitement. For this year’s trip, a record-breaking number of 65 international volunteers have joined us. From England, France, Vancouver, Vermont, Montreal...
S.T.O.P Peru: New Initiative to Treat Parasitic Infections in Young Children of Pucallpa
We’d never seen the Hub of Hope so busy, so bustling. It was a humid morning in March, 2017, and a major medical campaign was underway, treating over 460 children for intestinal worm infections. Doctors, nurses, smiling children and infants being weighed on scales...
Grant Enables Evaluation and Assessment of Pure Art Programs
In early May of this year I was awarded a scholarship by my Graduate School at the University of Southern California to complete a summer internship with the Pure Art Foundation. As a student of Public Policy, with an interest in international development, this was an...
An Update on the One School For All Initiative
At the end of 2015, we received wonderful news that sisters Amalia & Guadalupe, sponsored through the One School for All Initiative, had graduated from university. Now in their early twenties, Amalia & Guadalupe have been with the Foundation since its...
Volunteer Peru 2018
NEXT TRIP - MARCH 2018 Join our team of volunteers for our 2018 mission to Peru and experience first-hand the Pure Art Foundation in action as we travel to Pucallpa with the Construct a Structure Today Initiative. ABOUT PUCALLPA We primarily work with a...
Bridge to Peru 2015
In March 2016, we'll be returning to Peru with a new team of volunteers to construct Casa Hudson No. 5. This project wouldn't be possible without a local event that is very dear to our hearts. Every September since 2011, a group of Hudsonites come together to raise...