Nina Fogelman

Nina Fogelman, through her agency Ancient Summit Enterprises, has been instrumental in our literacy project. Nina is an American deeply committed to sharing the beauty of the Peruvian Andes and helping its people through her business. The Cacsi Community Elementary School has been one of the main beneficiaries of her involvement with our project. Nina and several of her friends provided funds to build bathrooms and a library (including books and much needed furniture) for the school.  It is amazing to think that an elementary school may have no bathrooms but unfortunately that can be the case in very rural areas of the Andes, such as Cacsi. 

Nina and friends have also contributed with books and furniture to elementary schools in the Urinsaya and Amantani Communities. Two additional libraries in other Amantani Communities are being planned with their support. We would like to give special thanks to Jim and Ed Malcolm, Dovie Horvitz, Kristin Hotti, Rick DeTurck, and their children Philip and Alex and to the Global Impact Volunteer Expeditions (GIVE) Foundation led by Frank and Agnes Shooster.

  

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Nina has also started an education project in a community near Cusco city, Peru.

Eliana Pauca and socially-responsible tourism

Eliana Pauca is the founder of All Ways Travel, Titicaca, Peru, a travel agency in Puno, Peru dedicated to socially-responsible tourism.  From her initial experiences as tour guide back in the early 1990s, Eliana saw the need to include Lake Titicaca native communities directly in the revenue earned by local tourism agencies to develop a sustainable local tourism industry. She realized that without participation of local communities in the revenue, tourism is not sustainable in the long run as native communities seek for alternative ways to make a living.

Eliana has dedicated a great deal of her time and resources to the Literacy in Lake Titicaca Project. It is through her innovative business ideas that Victor's dream of improved literacy and leadership in Lake Titicaca can be realized.

World Challenge Expeditions in Ticanipampa-Atuncolla

 World Challenge Expeditions has been a faithful supporter of the Literacy in Lake Titicaca project since 1998. Hundreds of young high school students from England and other countries have passed through Lake Titicaca and its surroundings, building libraries, bathrooms, and playgrounds. They also bring books and furniture for the libraries.

The pictures you see are from a recent 2006 project in Ticanipampa, Atuncolla district. The students, who were no more than 17 years old, rolled up their sleeves and worked side by side with the local people, painting and renovating the library room at the Ticanipampa school.

Today, this library is heavily used by students of Ticanipampa school and we see a positive change in their self-esteem.