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Chazuta, Peru


Visited the town of Chazuta, a beautiful but poor village a couple of hours away along a bad dirt road that follows the river valleys down into the lower Amazon. Accompanied by Irma, a nurse working in a_mission at a church in Tarapoto, who I met through another friend I know from last year who I just happened to see on the street a couple of days ago. Irma's cuñado (brother-in-law) is in charge of a medicinal plants project in Chazuta so I got the tour of the chacras (fields), plant nursery and laboratory there. It was interesting to compare with the project I visited a few months ago in Guatemala.

Last weekend, I visited friends in Juanjui, where I stayed and worked last year. The weekend before, A_Rocha had taken its first group of teenagers from Juanjui to the Rio Abiseo National_Park. This is the park I visited as a guest of INRENA - the Peruvian natural resources department - when I was in Juanjui the last time. The A_Rocha trip was organized by my friend Alex and the first group was about 20 members of the church where Alex is the pastor. Arrived just in time to see the slide show of the trip and Alex's talk about it and about creation care on Saturday night.


permalink written by  cjones on December 3, 2008 from Chazuta, Peru
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