My Service Learning Experience

Each place in the planet has something interesting to show, but Peru is without any doubt a privileged country because of its great natural, cultural and human richness. Anyone that loves nature will definitely be gratified by the diversity of its environments and sights. Peru will blow your imagination for its acute contrast between its forests and deserts by the coast; its impetuous snowed mountains, the Andes; its jungle in the Amazon region; and you would be surprised by its variety of flora and fauna, which is unique in the world, that characterize these regions. If you love history, Peru is definitely the right place for you to visit. Peru is a magnificent testimony of a great ancestral civilization of six antique millenniums. This country is full of incomparable cultural profiles, and you will find access to the best examples--in paintings, sculpture and architecture--of all the fusion of the American and Hispanic cultures.
Now that you know a little bit about Peru, I want to share this video about our Service-Learning Project in Peru. I hope you can enjoy seeing these lovely children as I visited them one morning during their regular day. I am posting some pictures of the classroom conditions before we provided this module last year in 2008; and I will also share some pictures of the first phase of the module that we have installed this year. The power of education is without any question invaluable. So often we take for granted what we have…I hope that as you watch this video and view these pictures you can reflect on how you can make a difference in the lives of others. First, we must start with ourselves. Second, our own local community; and finally, we can help others. Do not underestimate the power of your own education. The University of Nebraska at Omaha is a resource available to all of us to make these differences in ourselves and the others around us. Enjoy the video and the pictures!

CARITAS FELICES – BEFORE (May 2008)

Structure 1 Construction (May 2008)

Arturo Miranda, Spanish Instructor-Department of Foreign Languages & Graduate Assistant,
Cox Communications Fellow- OLLAS Service Learning Staff