2008
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Objective
Nexos Voluntarios aims to promote development and foster an understanding between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres by promoting high quality and effective voluntary activity by foreign and local caring individuals in Peru .
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We base our activity on a network model to provide comprehensive services to our visiting volunteers
Local Universities
• Participate through their student bodies, who act as peer volunteers to visiting volunteers
• Volunteers receive support from faculty to strengthen their project
• Disseminate the program within their members
Foreign Universities
Nexos
Voluntarios*
NGOs and nonprofits
• Incorporate volunteers within their projects
Cooperation agencies
Corporations
Inter American development
Bank
• Sponsor the program and support volunteers with materials, advise and technical assistance
• Transfer their knowledge to volunteers by acting as mentors
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We would like to invite students related to CDAS to join our volunteering program
Components of our Group Programs with Partnering Universities
• Participation in an impact-driven social project as a volunteer
• Room and board with a Peruvian host family
• Contribution to the NeVo Social Fund
• Cultural and entertainment activities (tourism, excursions, workshops)
• Local peer volunteer program and local intellectual mentors
• “Fire-side chats” with a coach
• Conversations and round-tables with experts in different topics tables
• Comprehensive on-site support (access to the NeVo house, permanent coordinator)
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Specifically we propose for the CDAS group to work in a community development project in Media Luna Urubamba (Cusco)
Media Luna (ML) is a community situated 7km from the district of Urubamba, (in the province of Cusco) that was founded in 1985. With a total population of 600 people (approximately 145 families) Media Luna has electricity and running water but lacks many components that will help it develop and progress out of poverty, such as:
• Adequate infrastructure
• An adequate educational level for its population (children and adults)
• Adequate health services and public health capacities to promote good health in the population
• A culture that promotes equity among men and women particularly in the real of reproductive health and labor rights
• An economic activity that is profitable and sustainable

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To promote the integral development of this community, Nexos Voluntarios promotes working on diagnosing 9 areas of development
The environment
Education
Economic activities
Public Health
Transportation and communications
Housing and basic services
Community-based organization
Public safety
Family life and domestic violence
Key questions
What is the current situation of media Luna in regards to the area of development being analyzed?
What are the main issues encountered?
What possible solutions do we oversee?
What is the timing an resources needed to work on these solutions?
Are these solutions feasible to implement?
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The environment
Education
Economic activities
Public Health
* ML: Media Luna
. . . and immediately addressing four of them
Issues found
• ML* has degraded the environment by engaging in extensive treecutting
• There is no culture of recycling or an adequate waste disposal
Focus of the intervention (initiatives)
• Reforestation
• Recycling and “ecological bricks” educational campaign
• The primary school has only one teacher overseeing all age groups; she is committed but overwhelmed
• Participation in classes to support the teacher
• Strengthening of basic English language skills
• There is no sustainable economic activity in the community and they are not benefitting from the tourism boom in Cusco
• There are cave-paintings in the community that could be a tourism attraction
• There is a major public health issue due to unwanted pregnancies particularly in teen-agers and very poor community members
• Cleaning and signaling the area where cave-paintings are located
• Implementing a “marketing” campaign to increase awareness of the cave paintings among tourists
• Implementing a reproductive health educational campaign targeted at: primary and secondary schools and community adults
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The group would work for a period of 10 to 12 weeks in two efforts: a diagnostics and planning effort with a long-term vision and an immediate needs initiative
Long-term vision
Immediate-needs vision
10 – 12 weeks
Situational diagnostic Community development plan
Focusing on the 9 areas of development, defined by the United Nations methodology, develop a diagnostic of the situation identifying main challenges and develop a community development plan to address these challenges
Addressing immediate needs
Focusing on the 4 areas of development, address the immediate needs facing the community by implementing previously-defined initiatives
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The program will cover all the groups needs
• Room and board including lodging with a host family or the NeVo House (shared room, 2 people per room) and 3 meals per day; Mon-Sun except for 1 “free night” per week
• Water and daily snacks
• Transportation to and from lodging to Media Luna
Mon – Thu
• Weekly cultural activities, including visits to major
Inca and Pre-Inca sites with a professional tour guide;
(visit to Machu Picchu is not included)
• Transportation to cultural activities
• Donation to the project
• Full time coordinator assigned to the group
• Duration: 12 weeks
Group of 8 people:
US$ 3,000 per person
Group of 10 people:
US$ 2,860 per person
Group of 12 people:
US$ 2,710
Fees do not include :
Air ticket Montreal-Lima-
Cusco-Lima-Montreal
Full coverage health insurance
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