I am a morning person and always have been. Getting out for an early run or roller-ski, indulging in one (and sometimes two) cups of Starbucks Dark Roast coffee, and sitting on my front porch eating yogurt and fruit was my typical (summer) regiment in the states. In Ollanta however, the first few hours of…
Month: July 2012
Mt. Ausangate (AWESOME-GOTTA) Trek
The Peruvian Andes are constantly beautiful wherever you choose to hike. However, not all hikes are breathtakingly (figuratively and literally!) challenging. A few Sacred Valley Health volunteers recently packed their backpacks to the brim and headed to trek around the highest peak in this region — Mt. Ausangate at 20,945 ft. Our five-day adventure began with…
Over the Mountain
We are currently hard at work to complete the “community needs assessment” in all 7 pilot communities where Sacred Valley Health is launching a community health worker program. This entails traveling to 7 unique (and quite rural) communities of predominantly Quechua-speaking people to obtain basic demographics and resident opinions on the general health of the…
Learning Tricks of the CHW Trade
Recently we have been getting out of our hiking boots and Patagonia pull-overs and into skirts and button-up shirts to attend meetings with various organizations in the Sacred Valley who are doing similar work. We hope to learn as much as possible about the implementation of community health worker (CHW) programs during these early stages of program implementation, so as…
Working Out in the Andes
Living at 9,000ft (and growing up at sea level) has it’s advantages and disadvantages. Advantage #1: I live in the Andes. Point blank, that is pretty cool. Advantage #2: I sleep like a baby. Or a rock…an Andean rock. I’ve always slept well at altitude – must be my tendency to under-breathe while sleeping, therefore…
INTO THE VALLEY 