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Livelihood programs in Lima Five years ago AMURTEL PERU started a project to provide work for women in extreme poverty in Lima. This project was started by two women and consisted of making hand-made dolls. It was started with $75 and two borrowed upright sewing machines! In February, 2003 the project started incorporating disabled women, who were trained to make the dolls. At this point, the project was named “Rurapuk Stars.” (Rurapuk means people who help other people in Quechua, the language of the ancient Incas.) Today, Rurapuk Stars, is employing six hearing disabled women and one non-disabled woman, who is our designer and the creator of the first dolls. These women are working full-time at a fair wage to make hand-made ethnic Peruvian dolls. The hearing-disabled women are talented, sincere, hard working, and have a refined sense of art and esthetics. It has been our experience that, with patience and proper guidance, they do higher quality work than non-disabled people.
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Earthquake Relief 2001 Being Saturday afternoon, few people were in the houses or in the schools. Also it started gently and increased in intensity, so people had time to get out of the collapsing buildings. Even with this favorable factors, the earthquake and the more than 70 aftershocks of up to 6.2 intensity, left more than 100 dead and thousands of injured. and it was felt in the neighbor countries Bolivia and Chile. A group of AMURT and AMURTEL volunteers
rushed to the affected areas few days after the disaster and provided the most affected families with food, winter clothes
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Barlovento
Community Center The focus of the Center is to serve the impoverished rural villages of Barlovento through education, health, agriculture and cooperatives. Due to a legacy of slavery, poverty and unemployment, most of the Afro-Venezuelan villagers suffer from low self esteem and lack of opportunities to develop their potential. The Center’s programs strive to develop community solidarity, to empower the people, and to motivate, awaken and infuse positive values in the children and youth.
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here for a full documentary Disaster relief 1999-2000 Due to excessive rain a natural disaster hit Northern Venezuela with massive landslides and floods, killing thousands. Local AMURT and AMURTEL volunteers swung into action. In the following weeks they conducted medical camps, distributed food, water and clothing. |
