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Chazuta
Chazuta
,
Peru
Chazuta and the Rio Huallaga
Site of the medicinal plant project
With Max and Gabriel
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.
Laura, Alex and Nataly
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.
written by
cjones
on December 3, 2008
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