While everyone on the Bolivia team came here with the same goals, we (Lily and Sydney) were sent with a specific task: to collect data regarding the health and sanitation of the rural community we visited in the Amazon. Shoulder to shoulder worked alongside the epidemiology department at Wayne State University (located in Detroit,Mi) to...
After a lunch of yak and potato momos (dumpling native to Tibet), the whole group hung out in the hostel restaurant to play cards. We stayed together for a walk in a park to watch locals feed schools of fish and a bale (editor’s choice) of turtles. Our local cuisine continued with a unique dinner:...
We continued our permaculture work today. It’s been amazing to see our progress, turning a blank patch of land into a garden that will have a lasting effect after we leave. Today we worked on fencing the area. We started by stabilizing the pre-existing poles with rocks while another group cleared a bush on the...