Health support for senior citizens

Recently we have received a new Cuban doctor here in Sauce who has generously given his time to provide special health support to our group of senior citizens at Estrella de Sauce.

Building lot for sale in Sauce, Peru

If you are interested in moving to Peru check out this building lot in a quiet part of Sauce. We have installed electric power and water hookup is easy to arrange.  Area is around 500 square meters with orange and lime trees already established.  Lots of room for a nice garden. If you build 2 storeys you will have a lake view.  Contact me at  martinstevens@juno.com  for more details.

Who'd have thought?

I never would have imagined 20 years ago that I would wind up living in the northern jungle of the peruvian Amazon and furthermore have the role as El Patron to an association of boat captains who run tourist cruises on Laguna Sauce.  However this is indeed the case and a few days ago I marched in the annual parade celebrating Laguna Sauce helping to hold up the association's banner.
I have this role by virtue of lending my dock to the association for their use.

Lourdes helps start a new Waldorf project in Tarapoto

A group of parents in our local city of Tarapoto, 2 hours away from where we live in Sauce have become interested in Waldorf education for their children.  Lourdes has taken on the role of advisor for this small new eductional project.
A small house has been rented and some roofed-over outdoor classrooms have been set up in the garden.  A first grade with ten children has been started as well as a kindergarten with 2 children.  The fledgling school has been named Semillas meaning seeds in English which seems appropriate.

Belated thanks to Yorick

Yesterday was the birthday of our dear volunteer Yorick Philippe who helped us in our constuction projects for about nine months in 2014.  Yorick, thanks for all you did for us and we hope you had a wonderful bithday celebration.  Please come back and see us in Sauce anytime!

International women's day speech

On Sunday March 8 Lourdes was asked to give a speech in the main plaza of Sauce by the municipal authorities to commemorate international women's day as a representative of our Friday club for senior citizens.  She got straight to the point in deploring Peru's 'machista' culture and its unfortunate ranking as having the highest rate of domestic violence in South America.

Our volunteers Ronja and Marlene lead some of the members of our senior citizens club in the annual international women's day parade.

Remodel at Estrella de Sauce

In the southern hemisphere the school year starts in March.  Thanks to a generous donation from Freunde der Erziehungskunst Reudolf Steiners in Berlin we are now preparing for the 2015 reopening of our after-school enrichment program by building some walls that were lacking at our headquarters in Sauce, Peru. Additionally we are delighted that our ex-volunteer Andres decided to take a break from his law studies in Freiburg, Germany to come and see us.  He kindly offered to paint our classroom chairs and other furniture to get us ready for opening day next week.

Andres and Lourdes preparing our classroom for the new school year.

Our builder maestro Simon with Lourdes with new wall that includes an area for making compost.

New interior wall behind our traditional oven.