Vive Peru

My professional training has allowed me to work in similar organizations, with a high sense of solidarity and social justice based on strengthening the capacities of community members to access their rights in health and education. Working in Vive Perú allows me to feel that my work has an impact on the people and communities in which we intervene and that is very satisfying.

After traveling to Peru in 2006 during a summer experience through the University of Notre Dame, I fell in love with Latin America and Peruvian culture. After graduation, I moved to Peru and began working teaching English and playing in the local symphony orchestra, but in my heart I really longed to do non-profit work.

Medicine. As a future health care professional in the United States, we see that we have too many resources that sometimes the U.S. does not know how to utilize them all efficiently or effectively. I wanted to go abroad to learn the different techniques, culture, and how doctors overseas are so well off with what they utilize.