PERU

In Latin America, MMAF members have worked for many years in various regions of Peru. Currently serving in Peru:

MMAF MEMBER
MINISTRY
Eugenia Aguirre and Miguel Pimentel  
Mary Bathum and Steve Nathe
and son Rainer
 
Carolyn and Ron Bosse  
Barbara Fraser Director of Latinamerica Press
Karen Halberg  
Chris Keavney Solar energy development
Deidre Savino and Ed Maurer Human and Civil Rights Work (Deidre)
Water Development Projects in Remote Areas (Ed)
Jim Weaver  
Cathy Williams Rural Pastoral Ministry in Ilave Parish


Chris Keavney

Solar Energy Projects

Chris Keavney is a North American technologist who, after several years of work in laboratory research in solar energy, decided to join Maryknoll as a lay missioner to work on promoting the technology at the grass-roots level. He has set up a workshop at the Institute for Rural Education in Peru, in which he will show local farmers the ways that exist to use the fierce sun of the Peruvian altiplano for cooking, heating, and electricity. Chris believes that appropriate technologies, adapted to local needs, can help people realize their full potential as human beings, and wants to fight the tendency to force development into foreign models, making the people serve it, instead of the other way around.

Local Peruvian people try out a prototype solar oven
Demonstrating a Panel Cooker
Demonstration of a Panel Cooker in Lampa Grande
Box Cooker
The First Box Cooker Built in Moho



Chris publishes a newsletter about his life and work in the Altiplano. Check out what he has to say:
    Chris's Newsletters
  • August, 1996
  • December, 1996
  • April, 1997
  • June, 1997
  • November, 1997

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