Squatty potties. I cautiously stand in the entrance of the outhouse like structure, looking down at a small porcelain hole in the ground that reveals nothing more than an overwhelming sense of confusion. I futilely wish for picture instructions or even access to a YouTube video in order explain the impossible task of successfully using […]
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2011 Ecuador Galapagos students: Thanks to your generous donations last summer two schools in the Otavalo area recently received a wonderful surprise! At the request of the schools’ directors, your funds were used to purchase gym uniforms for the students you visited in Padre Chupa and to contribute to new school supplies for students at
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Host Community Research in Ecuador Sparked by an interest in learning more about the host community’s experience with our programs and a desire to continue creating meaningful, reciprocal relationships among all our participants, our Program Director Laura Litwiller traveled to Ecuador in 2010 to visit four communities that hosted Global Routes students between 2006-2010. Rio
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For our final thrill, we headed out Saturday morning down the Rio Napo on motorized canoes to explore the Amazon jungle! After a beautiful river ride past lush flora, we arrived at our first exploration site. We spent the next 3-4 hours hiking through a secondary rainforest with an indigenous, Quichuan guide, who stopped to
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Even though we were all so sad that we weren’t able to spend Thanksgiving with our real families, we had the incredible opportunity to have a full-blown Thanksgiving in San Luis de Pambil. Although our Thanksgiving was anything but traditional, we had turkey, stuffing, gravy, apple pie, mashed potatoes, string beans, root vegetables, corn, sweet
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