How Do You Say "Empowerment" in Quechua?
Jessa Pillipow is a former Awamaki volunteer who wrote this SCIC Blog post about her project with us. Volunteer Jessa spent six months with Awamaki in 2014. During her time with us, she led a project to develop and teach an empowerment workshop to the women’s cooperatives. Her goal was to both evaluate Awamaki’s work in empowerment, and share the organization’s vision with the women. What she found was pretty exciting! Jessa writes: “As I came know the women better through my work leading tours to the communities of Patacancha and Huilloc, I began to wonder if they had ever...