Peru House Completed!

The MicroAid house for the Ormachea-Hermoza family is done! And I am back from four months in Peru.

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It was a big project for us, and a life-changing event for them.

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As you know, the family lost their adobe home in the floods of 2010, and had been living in a shack ever since.

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There will be 12 people living in the new house—it has 5 rooms and is 1,400 square feet, with a second-floor foundation, and will withstand any future floods or earthquakes.

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Dozens and dozens in the extended family will benefit from this home. And our worked helped the community by employing people and injecting much-need cash into the local economy.

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While I was in the town of Urubamba in the Sacred Valley building the house, I posted many pictures to the blog—as well as a profile of the family—and smaller details of working in the southern hemisphere winter at 12,000 feet. (see posts below)

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The family was very aware that there is a group of donors that made our assistance possible. They often asked to see pictures of everyone.

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Next time, I will bring pictures of the donors to show them.

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A special thanks to our interpreter Erin O’Rourke for her tireless dedication to the project. Her presence on the site every day was essential to its success.

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