Awamaki: Ten weeks later…

By Catherine Amy Jones, Marketing and Communication intern When I first told my family and friends that I was moving to Peru for ten weeks to live in the last living Inca city and near Machu Picchu, their reactions made me excited but quietly nervous. I knew Awamaki’s work empowering indigenous women was important and so I knew my internship had real purpose and that I would need to give it my all. However, I wasn’t prepared for just how life-changing my time with Awamaki would turn out to be. And while I gave it my all, I gained so...