Quechua Benefit mission participants often leave for Peru excited about the good they are about to do for some of the poorest people on earth. Invariably, at so… [more]
The plane circles once and floats through the thin air onto the tarmac. Out come fifteen gringos from as far away as Jordan and as close as Atlanta, Georgia. T… [more]
Titles are extraordinarily important – always error on the side of being overly polite by referring to everyone by their appropriate professional of social ti… [more]
I have been fortunate enough to do several medical missions around the world. Each time I have returned with a greater appreciation of the bounties of my lif… [more]
Most who read this magazine, certainly all alpaca owners and breeders, carry a debt. That debt is to the traditional owners of the alpaca, the indigenous tribes… [more]
Marilyn Nishitani sizes up the little girl from Musoq Runa who settles shyly onto the exam table. Maribie’s curious brown eyes take in Marilyn’s crystal blu… [more]
I have been given the privilege of sharing with the entire Quechua benefit family the joy and success our most recent medical outreach to the Colca Valley this … [more]
I received a phone call from the director of Quechua Benefit, Mr. Mike Safley, at 3:00 AM this morning to tell me that he had just been advised by Peru that th… [more]
Quechua Benefit’s first medical mission, involving primarily physicians, began when Dr. Dwight Bailey and his wife, and registered nurse, Deborah approache… [more]
Peru knocks the wind out of me, the high altitude steals air from my lungs, bitter nights chill my bones, and I grow silent. I prepared myself for a country tha… [more]
The Michell Company is a vertically integrated Peruvian textile manufacturing conglomerate that is known to almost everyone associated with the specialty fiber … [more]
Sister Antonia Kayser is a plucky 81 year-old Catholic nun with a secret. Born and raised in the borough of Brooklyn, New York she is a member of the Maryknoll … [more]
A light rain fell as we forded the river on our way to Macusani from Nunoa. It was exactly a year since I last visited Don Julio Barreda at Accoyo on November 1… [more]
Saints are rare. Few people are privileged to meet one face to face here on earth. Sainthood is determined after death through a process of beatification, wher… [more]
Quechua Benefit will complete the first phase of construction at Casa Chapi in the winter of of 2011. We still need help building several children cottages in … [more]
I had seen poverty before but never lived it. In Peru my sister and I spent time living among children at two different orphanages. We were there as part of th… [more]
Quechua Benefit will begin construction of Casa Chapi in March of 2009. Bricks will be laid, timbers raised and soon a home will appear. The complex, when comp… [more]
Casa Chapi is rising on a terraced Andean hillside in the Colca valley like a giant Condor soaring from its rocky nest on the nearby canyon walls. … [more]
A long time ago (1709 to be exact) in a town not far from the Peruvian colonial city of Arequipa a committee of the men decided to move a statue of the Virgin … [more]
A long time ago (1709 to be exact) in a town not far from the Peruvian colonial city of Arequipa a committee of the men decided to move a statue of the Virgin … [more]
When we boarded the bus in Chivay that morning, I had no idea what our medical team was going to encounter that day other than to expect a long, bumpy bus ride… [more]
I have been fortunate enough to do several medical missions around the world. Each time I have returned with a greater appreciation of the bounties of my lif… [more]
A vaguely shimmering halo crowned Mount Mistias the sun set. I asked Julio Barreda where alpacas came from. When Don Julio liked a question or an answer he typ… [more]
At a special community recognition dinner for Quechua Benefit the town of Yanque offered the free and clear title to a substantial piece of property near their… [more]
The highlands of Peru are home to the vast majority of all the alpacas in the world. The Quechua Indians, who domesticated the vicuna more than five thousand ye… [more]
By Mike Safley The indigenous Indians of Peru are unique in the modern world. They are uniformly spiritual, uninterested in politics, and loyal to their familie… [more]
The United Nations defines domestic violence as: "the use of force or threats of force by a husband or boyfriend for the purpose of coercing and intimidating a … [more]
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