The trip starts now!

Happy to say we have some new recruits since our last update! Shout out to our new, enthusiastic members...Taylor, Nafisa, Henry and Sonia. To everyone who tried out there dancing shoes with us during our salsa night, feel free to show off your new skills. You guys were great! Thanks for all your hard work enduring the cold selling hot cocoa as well our recent hat sale in Mason Hall.

                                         Sonia looking super cute selling hats. 

We can't wait to get more hats from skilled ladies in Peru. Look for our hat sale next November with lots of new handmade alpaca hats and gloves. This is our favorite fundraiser because of the beautiful hats as well as the opportunity to support the indigenous community. 

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A Brand New Year for Project Suyana

Welcome Week has already passed, Festifall is around the corner, plans for next summer are already in the works. This year Project Suyana is composed of younger faces. Now that many of the alumni have graduated and moved on to their successful lives, our group is due for some growth.

One of the things we realized immediately was the need to shift Project Suyana from a group that travels to Peru every summer, to more of an open family that engages in cultural events and activities with the opportunity to travel to Peru during the summer. 

How does that work?

We have been busy. Our work has taken us all over the internet, culling fun facts about Peru from About.com to scheduling the familiar hat sale, to sketching out ideas for attending dancing lessons and watching Peruvian documentaries, such as this one: http://vimeo.com/86746447

Not only that, but we have also been looking for the next stage of the project. 

This upcoming summer we anticipate as being the last one where we install clean burning stoves for families in Peru. What's next? Networking.

We will seek out mutually beneficial partnerships with other groups. We can't wait to learn all about water filtration and natural gas incubators and make it work in Peru!

The following academic year holds uncertainty, but also a lot of excitement. We'll be posting updates of our fundraisers, cultural events, Spanish practice, and everything in between.

Saludos!

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