In Peru, a Pint-Size Ticket to Learning
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ARAHUAY, Peru -- Doubts about whether poor, rural children really can benefit from quirky little computers evaporate as quickly as the morning dew in this hilltop Andean village, where 50 primary school children got machines from the One Laptop Per Child project six months ago.
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LONDON, Jan 18 (IPS) - Peru gave the world the potato, and the potato now  offers indigenous people around the world a new recipe for  securing their rights.
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NUEVO JERUSALEM, Peru -- TomÃÂ¿s Maynas Carijano strolled through his tiny jungle farm, pinching leaves, shaking his head. Rain forest spread lush in all directions -- covering what oil maps call Block 1AB.
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NUEVO JERUSALEM, Peru -- TomÃÂ¡s Maynas Carijano strolled through his tiny jungle farm, pinching leaves, shaking his head. The rain forest spread lushly in all directions -- covering what oil maps call Block 1AB.
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ESPINAR, Peru  - Two years ago, 2,000 people in this small town in the Peruvian Andes stormed the offices of the Tintaya copper mine, demanding its owners spend more money on social projects and the environment.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia -- Andrea Mamani stood in front of her students the other day and started the afternoon lesson by pointing to her head.
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LIMA, Peru - After 34 years of patient tinkering, researchers at Peru's most prestigious agrarian university have bred a new culinary export they hope will scamper onto dinner plates throughout America and the world: the super guinea pig.
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By By Mariecar Mendoza, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Sep.
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A new concept of the college campus is taking root: a small city in the country that is not for only the young.
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When some students set out to learn about nutrition, the lessons hit closer to home than many of them expected.
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The way children learn may determine the building blocks of language, suggests a study of deaf Nicaraguan children. Ann Senghas of New York&#39;s Columbia University, US, and colleagues studied three generations
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"If I'm in my home, I am depressed. I don't have anything to do. When I come here, I converse with people, I have responsibilities." That's Rebeca Sanchez, a Peruvian volunteer at the Falls Church offices of the Hispanic Committee of Virginia (www.hcva.org). The cheerful 85-year-old goes on, speaking her native Spanish through a translator: "I've never volunteered before. This is my first time."
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Blog: How can you stretch WiFi? Communicate between peaks in the Andes
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Zambian high school student  Bibian Phiri will conduct her first science experiment this  year -- a small but important breakthrough paid for by a  massive poverty relief plan for Africa.
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LIMA, Peru  - Even in ancient Peru, it seems dogs were a man's best friend.
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By Adrian Mather  A TROPICAL plant expert from the Royal Botanic Garden is helping Peruvian farmers in the Andes replant their native forests.
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Mammoth Cave National Park and Western Kentucky University have opened a facility that is designed to give students a hands-on learning environment in the longest known cave system in the world.