by admin | Apr 11, 2019 | All, News
It always feels like a week in Pucallpa equates a handful of hours back home. It speeds by in motocart rides, dusty streets, children calling and jungle walks under banana trees. We open our eyes one morning and already it’s time to go. But behind us, like a dream,...
by admin | Mar 5, 2018 | All, Blog, News
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...
by admin | Aug 1, 2017 | All, Blog, News, The STOP Program
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...
by admin | Jul 29, 2016 | All, Fundraising events, Peru 2016
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...
by admin | Feb 6, 2016 | All, Fundraising events, One School for All
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...
by admin | Nov 8, 2015 | All, Peru 2016, The CAST Initiative
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...