Hello everyone!
Well - to start off - this blog is about a wonderful group of people who are using their spring break from college to travel miles away and help a small city in Peru to rebuild. Here's the "official description" written by one of our group leaders:
Alternative Spring Break is a service trip organized and undertaken solely by students. The term "Alternative Spring Break" is known across the country for service trips during spring vacation, but our trip is completely independent.
The group going to Peru will be about 14 in number, all from RISD. We will fly to Lima, Peru, and then bus to Pisco, Peru where the Organization we are working with, Awaiting Angels has a project base. We will join the Earthquake Recovery program in Pisco, where the people need a lot of help rebuilding their houses and neighborhoods. The community of Pisco will love to make a mural with us, the artists - it would be wonderful to see a mural in a city where help doesn't arrive as was promised after the earthquake. We will also do activities with kids in the village in the afternoons.
We will stay in dormitory style housing and be fed three Peruvian meals a day - all included in the cost. We estimate the trip to be around $800, which we will raise through writing letters to people we know (from home, church, neighbors, etc) who will donate, and by doing fundraisers - here is where we need to be dedicated and creative! On past trips we have been successful in raising all of the money! The price will be more definite as we buy the plane tickets and figure the cost for the mural.
We hope to work in some excursions and exploring as well, Peru is a beautiful place of culture and nature.
~ Kirchin
We are all so excited to go and we are starting fundraising tonight at the RISD Nads Hockey Game!
Pictures will be posted soon after the game.
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