CARE Corps Teens
As you may have read in the Globetrotter last year, I traveled to Peru this summer with CARE International as a member of CARE Corps Teens. The trip was incredible; Peru and its people are truly amazing.
With the nine other CARE Corps Teens selected for the trip, we visited and worked on CARE projects in the Ancash region of Peru. It was remarkably beautiful; even though we sometimes rode in our four-wheel-drive (we really needed it) bus between projects for many bumpy hours, the mountain views overcame any boredom. We were only in Anchash for four days, but in that short amount of time we visited nearly a dozen CARE projects in just that one region. Among other things, we dug trenches for a tiny village’s first water system, harvested artichokes, and visited five schools (all of which CARE sponsors).
The scope and diversity of CARE’s work to fight poverty that I witnessed on this trip inspired me to get more people involved with CARE. Since returning, I have started a CARE Corps Teens club at school, which is still open to new members (all members are eligible to apply this spring for the next CARE Corps Teens trip).
Throughout the year, the club will be promoting CARE’s work and its upcoming fundraisers. Our current project is CARE’s fight against polio and, on January 13, Atlanta-area CARE Corps Teens chapters are hosting a dinner and viewing of The Last Child: The Global Race to End Polio, a critically acclaimed one-hour documentary. The event will be held at the Georgia-Pacific Corporation Auditorium on Peachtree Street, and tickets are $12 (all proceeds go to CARE’s polio initiatives). If you are interested in purchasing tickets, members of the CARE Corps Teens club will be selling tickets in early January during carpool time. Thank you for your support.