The Planeterra Blog

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 ›

In celebration of EARTH DAY 33 people joined me on a 6K hike to raise awareness of Global Water Quality and to raise money to purchase water tanks in Kenya. Ending in the Llaquepata community we also disributed 1,500 kilos of food & supplies to 80 families who were affected by the recent floods.1500 kilos… Read More ›

Dubbed by a local Peruvian newspaper as “The Disaster the World Ignored” it has been one week since state of emergency has been declared in Cuzco, Peru. Only about half way through the rainy season, a 72 hour period of torrential rains has caused entire communities to be evacuated due to massive flooding, washed out… Read More ›