The Covid Relief Project had a very successful second event! We took food aid to 50 families who are out of work because tourism has stopped while the borders of Peru are closed to slow the spread of
Today I got the wonderful news that Canoe Island French Camp directors Meg & Ben had their baby last Wednesday and will bring her back to the island today. I spent a fair amount of time on Canoe Island when I was a baby and am so happy that there will be a baby living on the island full time. As sad as they were to cancel camp this year due to Covid, the silver lining is that they will have more time to spend with baby Odette during her first year.
Also born last week, Miriam and Henry had Samin on Tuesday! His name means lucky and blessed in Quechua. Unsure how much time he would have for the Covid Relief Project, last week our friend Auqui took over for Henry in the organization of this Saturdays delivery of food aid. Auqui found the and has been working leaders on arranging transportation. I just heard from Henry today that he thinks that hell be able to leave for a
We drove from Cusco to Urubamba, and then headed out of town on a small dirt road to where the families had hiked down to meet us.
Today my aunt Laura sent a Seattle Times article on exactly what Ive been hoping that people will see! From the Andes to Tibet, the coronavirus seems to be sparing populations at high altitudes
The article starts out with When tourists from Mexico, China and Britain became the first fatalities in Cusco, Peru, it seemed as if the onetime capital of the Inca Empire might be headed for a significant outbreak. Yet since those three deaths, between March 23 and April 3, at the start of Perus strict national lockdown, there has not been another fatality in the entire Cusco region, even as the disease has claimed more than 4,000 lives nationally. The article also cites the study published by the National Institutes for Health that Ive been quoting for weeks now.
One week ago today, George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police. How can this still be happening? Why have we not been able to eradicate racism, at least in the people who are meant to protect and serve us?
I understand that racism is a pervasive and entrenched part of American culture that will take a lot of work to actually eradicate. But
Thanks to our generous doors, we were able to buy for each family: 5kg rice, 5kg oatmeal, 5kg sugar, 1 liter vegetable oil, 1 large tin of powdered milk and a panettone!
with the increasingly high profile of the cases of police killing black people in the past few years, why havent police forces done the necessary work to educate cops on implicit bias and white privilege and fired any cops who demonstrate that they 200 percent understand the problem and will actively work to eradicate racism in police forces? Why is my country still so racist?
