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 | Sep 28, 2015 | All, Fundraising events, News, Peru 2016, The CAST Initiative
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...
by admin | Mar 14, 2015 | All, Fundraising events, News, Peru 2015, The CAST Initiative
As I sit down to begin our final blog post of this year’s trip to Pucallpa, it’s hard to imagine the perfect closure to such an eventful week. Today, the volunteers visited a local school where some of our students are sponsored, before heading to the work site for...
by admin | Mar 13, 2015 | All, Fundraising events, News, Peru 2015, The Sewing Initiative
On Wednesday, the group took a much needed break from the construction site, travelling 2 hours up the Ucayali River by boat to a Shipibo tribe in Limongema. By then, the volunteers and our local team of construction workers had accomplished an incredible amount on...