Summer 2024

June 2024 Sponsor Report

On June 12, 2024, Barbara Land, Mykel Miller, and Cami Berg from the Nevada Building Hope Foundation travelled to Peru to distribute school unforms, school supplies, backpacks, shoes, women’s clothes, and assorted medicines and creams.

Mykel Miller, a member of NBHF student volunteer team has been volunteering with NBHF for the past three years and travelling to the jungle for the past three. Cami Berg, also a NBHF student volunteer has been a member of our team for three years and travelled to the jungle for two years. These two amazing young adults were a great help on all projects before, and during, the trip. Barbara, Cami, and Mykel transported six bags with nearly 300 pounds of clothing and medicines to the jungle. 

Mykel Miller and Cami Berg

While at Grand Amazon, Cami and Mykel worked tirelessly everyday sorting and distributing clothes and supplies for the communities. The Nevada Building Hope Foundation and Grand Amazon Tours Volunteerism Program is one of the most viable programs in the Amazon. 

We thank our Director of NBHF/Peru, Dustin Pinedo Gonzales for his leadership and management in buying, sorting, and arranging the uniforms, socks, shoes, backpacks and school supplies for five schools. Without Dustin, our projects and NBHF/Peru would not be able to operate.

Dustin Pinedo Gonzales 

Backpacks 

Ayacucho Village

San Juan de Yanayacu

The new high school in Ayacucho Village is going strong. The government of Peru has provided the high school with eight teachers, and we currently have 60 students enrolled in the high school. In the current five classrooms, we have students in grades one through five. On December 6, 2024, we will have our first class of graduating seniors. The first graduation will be named after Bailey Ahn and Maksym Taran, Board Members of Nevada Building Hope Foundation who were solely responsible for the funding and the construction of the new high school.

High School Ayacucho

Our new high school in Ayacucho has become a hub for young and new families moving to both Ayacucho and San Juan de Yanayacu Villages. This past June, we registered eight new students for area schools. 

In 2022, we launched the USS Dani I., a wooden school boat, which was funded by NBHF sponsors with the project being led by Linda Osmond Worth. Linda sponsors  two children in our program. Linda’s generosity has been seen in many NBHF projects in the past few years.

USS Dani 1

 In February 2024, Barbara Land and Dustin Pinedo Gonzales were invited to a community meeting in San Juan de Yanayacu where the parents requested that NBHF help them purchase a larger and more durable school boat made of aluminum. The current wooden boat, USS Dani I. was built to safely transport 12 to 14 students from San Juan to Ayacucho daily to attend high school. 

With the influx of new families to San Juan, there were now 18 students travelling from San Juan de Yanayacu to Ayacucho Village daily. This was an extreme safety hazard for the children, the wooden USS Dani I. with its small motor was not built to accommodate that number of students. Through generosity of CJ Walters, a new boat was built and presented to the community in June 2024. The community of San Juan de Yanayacu built the “CJ Store” to thank and to show their appreciation to CJ for her continued generosity to their community. For the past three years, CJ has funded the purchasing of rubber boots for all the children in Ayacucho, San Juan, and Junin Villages.

USS Dani 2                                                                            

  CJ Store

       Estafita and CJ Walters

NBHF received a generous donation to purchase a small wooden boat with a motor for the eight students traveling to high school daily from the remote community of Junin. This boat has been named USS Dani 2 ¼. Mr. Aaron Panduro, the mayor of Junin expressed his sincere appreciation for this donation.

USS Dani 2 ¼ Junin Village

Through the generosity of Lula Roe representatives, Cindy Lupo, Ciara Pegoda, and Lisa Frost Meggs nearly 300 pounds of brand-new clothing was transported to the jungle. Enough clothing was donated to NBHF to support three more trips to the jungle for the next two years. The ladies and young girls in all three communities are beyond appreciative for their new clothes. The ladies were seen wearing their beautiful new clothes during the Festival of San Juan this past June.

Cindy Lupo 

   Ciara Pegoda

Examples of Ladies with Lula Roe Clothing

In 2024, NBHF started the “Sponsor a Senior Program.” Unlike the United States, the seniors living in the jungle receive little or no financial support from the government. Once they are beyond their years to fish or work in their gardens, the elderly struggle daily to survive. Erin Ceragioli, and the Tacoma City Ballet, sponsored an elderly couple living in Ayacucho Village. Due to cancer, the husband is blind, and his elderly wife is unable to provide for their daily living needs. NBHF Senior Program with Tacoma City Ballet’s financial help, we provided the funds for this couple to have nine months of fresh fish and nine months of canned food, rice, tea, and other needed food staples. Our couple was very appreciative of this help. In support of this program, a generous donation was given to purchase a year of rice for three additional seniors to assist with their dietary needs. This is a new program will be further developed in 2024.

Examples Photos of NBHF Senior Program

Example photos of NBHF sponsors

The Nevada Building Hope Foundation acknowledges and thanks all the great and wonderful people throughout world who support our programs in the remote Amazon Rainforest.

Nevada Building Hope Foundation Federal ID Number 81-4396837.