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NEVO´S SOCIAL CONSULTING
Dear NeVo friend,
Nexos Voluntarios´ volunteering program is running smoothly. Volunteers in 2008 have done excepcional work in health care, microbusiness, the environment and education. In the following pages, they will share some of their experiences, food for thought and enthusiasm in this period of international crisis. The outcomes are prone to be better than expected, and a road to new possibilities.
In this editorial note, I would like to share with our readers, some other projects that we are envolved in, where volunteers don´t participate unless they are curious and interested in learning about this once in Peru. I am referring to what we call “the second arm of Nexos Voluntarios”, and has come into being as a side result of the great impact we´re having in the projects where volunteers participate.
Along 2009, some companies, international institutions and NGOs have asked for our services in providing social consultancy for a range of projects. For instante, Technoserve and the IDB (Interamerican Development Bank), requested the services of our Excecutive Director to help them design and manage “Idea Tu Empresa”, an inclusive business plan competition that will be implemented during three years in four regions of our country. At the same time, the NGO Partners in Health (Socios en Salud), with the support of the Peru Opportunity Fund, has engaged in supporting a group of recovered mutidrug resistant tuberculosis patients in Trujillo, to generate income and in that way help preventing the spread of such illness. Afterwards, Nexos Voluntarios was recruited to be in charge of coordinating an impact measurement project with one of the most reputed microfinance institutions in Peru: Mibanco, which is immerse in a process to start reporting on non financial aspects of their business. Up to now, Nexos Voluntarios has been in charge of implementing a pilot project to measure poverty levels of Mibanco´s clients. This project was funded by the Triodos Bank, a bank from the Netherlands , which is a shareholder at Mibanco. Possibly, in 2009, we will start a permanent process to implement GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) to measure social, environmental and economic indicators in Mibanco´s operations.
As you see dear reader, our spectrum is enlarging and our aim of helping organizations become more responsable are growing too. We are working with people and for people. That is our goal.
Yours,
Carolina Benavides |
A note from the field
By Maricarmen Valdivieso
 As part of my personal experience, I should say that my life has changed after having the opportunity to live in Urubamba. I was able to work closely with people from the Andes that don’t have the same comforts as we do, but who give us their hearts in a very special and unforgettable way; to know more about my culture; to live in the Andes where all the richness of our culture is located, but also where most of the poorest communities live; and last but not least, to form relationships with special people that I will always keep in my mind and my heart.
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How I Learned to Be the Change:
My Alternative Spring Break Experience in Peru
By Daniela DiStefano, University of Western Ontario
 On our first day in the town of Urubamba, Perú under the snow-capped mountain of Chicon, our Nexos Voluntarios project coordinator Maricarmen Valdivieso told us that the people we would meet in the next seven days would remember us for the rest of their lives.
As our group gathered on the wooden floors of the Nexos Voluntarios house for orientation, we knew it was the beginning of a profound journey. However, we did not anticipate the tremendous amount of accomplishment, gratitude, and inspiration we would return home with.
The first day of our service project started with breakfast at local café La Esquina consisting of bread with jam, and coco leaf tea to help with the altitude adjustment; ...
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The Wealth of Giving
By Alix Farr
Movie stars do it. Professional football players do it. Members of royal families do it. Singers from the Top 40 charts do it. They take time off from their busy schedules of movie premiers, awards ceremonies, and restaurant openings to grace the developing world with their presence. Candy is distributed to hundreds of open and crowding hands, pictures are taken with flies and babies, and videos are made for MTV to be shown as an evening special after the latest episode of Cribs.
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PERU 2008: Save the Input of all the Senses
By Patricia Krisiac , University of Western Ontario
 Happiness. Sadness. Love. Guilt. Despair. Hope. These words have collectively been etched in my memory as a single emotion. An emotion one undergoes when crossing a threshold from the abstract to tangible senses. During my remaining hours in Peru, as I attempt to reflect back on my recent experiences with the country and its people, I can only conclude with the five basic methods of perception: sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch.
I discovered my sense of sight shortly after my arrival into Piura. While sitting in the back of a truck,
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Preparate para la vida
By Diana Parra, Southwestern University
 Growing up I used to see kids selling candy at the stop lights of my native Bogota. They were there all day sometimes, making money for someone else, and often not going to school at all. I did not know it then, but that was my first encounter with child exploitation. Since then I’ve learned about many other injustices, discussed their causes, implications. I used to think that although it is easier to live with your eyes closed to certain realities, we all must face them, acknowledge them, or they will go on forever.
Things have changed. I now believe that merely facing, acknowledging, discussing the problem will not make it go away, though it can be productive, but that real change will only come of action.
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