Current Events

Farewell Party!

What are your plans for this Saturday? Come enjoy some free food, wine, and music while supporting our volunteers by giving them a warm send-off. Condor Wines will be serving their hand-crafted wine, the sales of which help alleviate poverty in Peru. The event will be hosted at the winemaker's home in Portland. As an added bonus, our volunteers will be presenting a short demonstration on how to build your own solar cooker.

When: June 5th, 2010, 2-4pm

Where: 2765 SW West Point Ave., Portland, OR 97225

Directions: (from Portland) Take exit 71A. Take a right onto Canyon Lane. Take a left onto West Point Ave. If you can't seem to find you way, call Katie's cell (503)329-6557.

06.19.10 - Challenge Week

Our first annual Camaraderie Challenge will take place begining June 19, 2010. To emotionally support our volunteers and learn about the challenges people face around the world we will be simplifying our lives for one week. To participate and learn more about what we will be doing, click here for more details.

10.21.10 - Peruvian Basket Raffle

Only 100 tickets will be sold, $5 each! Once the tickets are gone we'll pull a winner. It's that easy to support our project in Peru!

Basket items include the following:

6 handmade Peruvian dolls

4 handwoven wool placemats

1 Ecuadorian wool throw blanket

1 handwoven wool purse

2 "chullos", or Peruvian stocking hats

1 pair of alpaca wool gloves

1 scarf

To purchase tickets:

Past Events - 2009

09.27.09 - 2nd Annual Taster Tour, Alberta

Click here for details about this event. Registration is now closed.

04.06.09 - 2nd Annual Benefit Dinner at Andina Restaurant

With a great turn-out of charismatic and diverse supporters at this year's benefit dinner, we can already call it a fantastic success. The fact that we were able to raise about $1,800, not only through the tickets sold, but also through the generous bidding on our silent auction, and equally generous donations, makes this our best event of the year. We send out a big "thank you" to everyone who attended.

Also, we want to thank those individuals and organizations which helped make the night so successful. Andina Restaurant, at the head of which is Mama Doris and John Platt, always willing to do what they can to help support us in our mission to help the poorest people in Peru... Thank you! Thank you to Jennifer Clegg, Chef Jorge Luis, and all of the other staff that assisted in the arrangement and preparation of the wonderful dinner that was served.

For making the silent auction such a success we want to thank photographer Anna Campbell for donating a beautiful photograph, Ten Thousand Villages and Onda World Art for donating a number of South American items at cost, and again Andina for donating wine for the auction. The rest of the items were made by hand in Peru, by the women's cooperative that Roberto and Katie helped organize during their service in the Peace Corps.

Thanks again to everyone involved in the Benefit Dinner, and for helping us get that much closer to our fundraising goal!

04.11.09 - 5K Fun Run Fundraiser

Although not a financially successful event, we appreciate all of the enthusiasm that the participants who attended brought with them, and thank you all for being present. We had a lot of fun and learned even more, which we hope will make potential future fun runs even better. We also appreciate all of our volunteers, Emily, Jeff, Judy, Lindy, Sara, Dave, Sandy, and Richard from American Integrated Chiropractors who provided free chiropractic services to the runners. Finally, to the businesses willing to support our event through the donation prizes, Tiki Hut Beauty Salon, Trader Joe's, Palomino's, American Integrated Chiropractors, and Cupcake Jones, thank you for such great gifts to the winning participants. The runners were very excited with their prizes.