New trustee
The LED trustees met last night, and we welcomed Mary Loosemore as our newest trustee. Mary’s been on a number of treks with Val, including last July’s Alpamayo Circuit in the Cordillera Blanca alongside trustee Mike Smith. Read Mary’s write up of her experiences on Val Pitkethly’s Cordillera Blanca trek.
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GPs and Greenhouses in the Cordillera Blanca
We are also hoping to have a GP and her husband from the Lakes join us in Quishuar in June and we will be making more greenhouses using plastic bottles following the success of a project that has been running in Scotland with great success.
This will help the local ladies who can then sell some of their produce in the markets in Pomabamba and Lucma along with helping improve the diet of their children.
The greenhouses can be done with a simple set up and the local children will all be involved in the making of each greenhouse.
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Quishaur health post: summer volunteers confirmed, and welcome Nurse Carmen!
We’re also really looking forward to welcoming Paul, Alex, Joshua and Hugo – medics at Leeds uni – to Quishaur in the Blanca to our health post where they will be volunteering for a month this summer. They are currently raising money for medical equipment and supplies for their trip.
This is fantastic news for us and Carmen, our new nurse there. Carmen has been doing a fantastic job recently with it being the rainy season in the Blanca making it very difficult for folks, so she has been seeing more than the usual accidents as there have been some pretty bad rock falls and floods in the area.
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