The Planeterra Blog

Testimonials from the Woman Artisans of Ccaccaccollo about the newly constructed weaving workshop – They thank all donors who made this possible! Lucia Quispe Pumaccallahui – President of Women’s Weaving Cooperative Since we lost our workshop we have had to sacrifice a lot and it has cost us a lot of time and discomfort.  It… Read More ›

Hundreds and hundreds of miles of infinite colours lined up and waiting to be braided and woven by the hands of the women artisans of Ccaccaccollo… My name is Joel Callañaupa and it has been six months since I began a new challenge in my life… The projects of the Planeterra Foundation in Peru. This… Read More ›

It’s been over a year now since the horrible rains devastated the Ccaccaccollo community where the women of our weaving project and many Gap Adventures Inca Trail porters reside. This note is to provide you all an update on how they are doing and progress on the construction of the community centre. Sometimes community development… Read More ›

In 2010 Denisia Pereira and Kay-Dean Lazarus, International MBA students at Schulich School of Business, York University acted as Planeterra Interns in Peru. They took some amazing pictures of our Womens’s Weaving Co-op in the Sacred Valley.They took some excellent notes on the dying process which we share with you here. Denisia and Kay-Dean worked… Read More ›

As many of you know, Cuzco, Peru was hit with extreme flooding this past January. The challenges have continued over the past few weeks and improvement is harder to come by than previously thought. Rebuilding the Ccaccaccollo community that Planeterra supports in the region has been slowed by continued rains. Our main priority is to… Read More ›