It is with a great sense of anticipation and excitement that I can announce to you the return of the InSight team to Peru! It seems like such a long time ago, … [more]
Snowmass Alpacas - Don, Julie, Nick, Maree, David and Heidi Skinner would like to send a special thank you to the medical team of Quechua Benefit … [more]
Julie and Don: I have had the pleasure of participating in the recent Quechua Benefit Mission at Casa Chapi. First, I want to thank you for your generous d… [more]
Jane and I consider it a privilege to be associated with Quechua Benefit. We want the years we have been allotted to count for something. There are several… [more]
Lauren Deimling Johns, 26, born in Toledo and a graduate of Fort Meigs Elementary and Perrysburg High School, joined the Peace Corp, after a back injury ended … [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]
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 s… [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]
As a third-year medical student Sean was assigned to Dr. Dwight Bailey’s rural health clinic in the foothills of Virginia’s Appalachian Mountains. It was he… [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]
The Quest began in March of 2009. A team of ophthalmologists called Amigo’s based at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon diagnosed 300 patients with ca… [more]
Rhonda Deschner is a pediatrician with a soft-spoken manner and a quick smile. Rhonda practiced medicine in Texas for twenty years before heading off to Peru on… [more]
Titles are extraordinarily important – always error on the side of being overly polite by referring to everyone by their appropriate professional of social t… [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]
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]
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]
The indigenous Indians of Peru are unique in the modern world. They are uniformly spiritual, uninterested in politics, and loyal to their families; they are no… [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]
The biggest check in Quechua Benefits history recently showed up in the charities accountant’s mail box. Chuck Gulotta, our Treasurer, summed up our collecti… [more]
Quechua Benefit has completed the first phase of construction at Casa Chapi and is now the full time residence of 20 children. We still need help building seve… [more]
The children of Casa Chapi have been our main focus over the past several months. As we build Casa Chapi, the heath, welfare and well being of the children, … [more]
The last bit of thatch has been stitched into place, the white stucco gleams under the ever present Peruvian sun and the final stone has been laid on the pathwa… [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]
In Quechua, chapi means "here" and in Spanish casa means "home." All too often small children in Peru have no home. Quechua Benefit aims to change this reality… [more]
Written by Angie Kidd , an Advisor and Representative for Quechua Benefit It is a beautiful Sunday afternoon here in Indiana. The sun is shining, the birds ar… [more]
Mike Safley of Quechua Benefit is honored as one of 25 Portlanders Who Are Changing the World. … [more]
The biggest check in Quechua Benefits history recently showed up in the charities accountant’s mail box. Chuck Gulotta, our Treasurer, summed up our collecti… [more]
Our challenge in 2013 will be to fund the ongoing operation of Casa Chapi which costs about $100,000 per year to operate when it has a full compliment of 100 c… [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]
Mother Teresa said “If I look at the masses I will never act, if I look at one I will”. This simple wisdom reveals a facet of the question; why do people do… [more]
The annual Futurity Show and Auction has been home to the Quechua Benefit auction for the past 4 years. To date, the auction has raised more that $ 400,000 from… [more]
Don Julio Barreda asked if we could help the children of Macusani, and Dr. Mario Pedroza responded, "Could I give them dental care?" "Bueno," … [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]
Quechua Benefit has returned to Peru every year since 1996 delivering clothes, school supplies and dental assistance. The alpaca breeders of the United States … [more]
The midday sun in the high sierra of Peru is blinding. I close my eyes and consider the evolution of Quechua Benefit, which began in 1996 with a simple request.… [more]
The lady sat ram rod straight in the chair, her royal blue skirt with hand embroidery depicting crimson hummingbirds, emerald green fish and golden rabbits; the… [more]
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