ROL en Peru, 2025, Maternal-Fetal Health Training

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Event Description

Reach Out And Learn presents the Reach Out And Learn, Peru 2025, Maternal-Fetal Health event, "Train Many, Who Train Others, Who Help Many in Need". This event will be held in Peru, May 9 - 17, 2025. The objective of this Maternal-Fetal Health/Service Leadership Training is to provide a setting where Peruvian professionals receive in-depth training on techniques and treatments that will help them care for mothers and babies during pregnancy and after delivery. This training is unique in that it is a "Learn Together" course where maternal-fetal professionals from the U.S. train Peruvian "Obstetras" those who care for mothers and babies before, during, and after childbirth, and who focus on issues that exist with expectant women and newborns. These "trained" professionals will be tasked with training hundreds of their colleagues in advanced techniques and treatments to improve the way they help those in need! As an added benefit, Maternal-Fetal Professionals will receive Service Leadership training that will help them make greater strides toward collaborating together to tackle leadership issues and problems that have inhibited their ability to work together to help those in need.


Maternal-Fetal Health is of great need in Peru. Last year, we learned that in the three months prior to our arrival, 10 women passed away in one hospital in one of the cities in which we will be training maternal-fetal health professionals. Our objective is to provide an opportunity for primary care, OBG/YN, and family practice physicians, and those interested in women and infant health and issues and problems associated with women and infant health, to receive and disseminate best practices and the latest information on topics that improve the quality of health among women and infants. Our effort is to bring together professionals who specialize in areas directly related to women and infant health and to place these experts in an educational setting that fosters learning, stimulates purposeful discussions, and encourages peer networking.

Bring Friends and Family

This event is designed so that trainers may bring family and friends to support our Maternal Fetal Health education effort. Also, as we are allowed... we may visit high Andean villages to assess needs and to learn about and experience the Peruvian people and culture, visit orphanages and/or other facilities where those in need are cared for and treated. We also have planned experiences to further explore the Peruvian culture with tours of the Sacred Valley, including Machu Picchu. We usually plan for our professionals to join their family members and friends on one of the village days to participate in interactive activities with children in remote villages. Conference Directors attending this year have extensive experience in villages doing activities and touring Cuzco/Machu Picchu. Our Tour Service is based in Cusco and they are the best! (We have had years of experience with them) and this gets us in and out of places that the big tour groups cannot go. For example; your Machu Picchu experience may be up to 8 hours at the site....in contrast, the big tour groups only give you 4 hours. Our interactive activities with school children brings you to the high Andes Mountains outside Cuzco into very small villages. Tourists normally don't get this experience. Many past participants have stated that Machu Picchu was awesome but the village experience was the highlight of the week.


Some of our current and past trainers are, Bardette Faucett, MD, Sean Esplin, MD, Mark Dowdle, MD, Ty Erickson, MD, Daniel Woodhead, RT, Lynette Mittlesteadt, RN. Dr. Dowdle, Dr. Erickson, and Chad Fugate, CRNA will train and initiate the training of hundreds of Peruvian doctors, nurses, and midwives on intense and detailed newborn resuscitation and women health issues related to childbirth and pregnancy.

Obstetras are similar to our Nurse Midwives. We are told they deliver 90% of all babies in Peru and other countries in South America. They are among the key professionals in Peru who need to know what to do to help newborns who need help breathing. These Obstetras do not get adequate training in high-risk deliveries and the college is very grateful for our curriculum and training.


We "learn together" as we learn the methods and procedures (treatments) used by foreign professionals to help those in need, and they learn from us!

Proposed Agenda

Our schedule and the activities we have planned are firming up. Changes can be found here as soon as possible.

May 9-17, 2025

Thursday, May 8, Leave the U.S.

You will need to make and pay for your own flight from the US to Lima. Most of our group will take Delta Airlines. Flights leave on the afternoon of Thursday, May 8th, transfer in Atlanta, fly through the night, and arrive in Lima at 5:25am on Friday.

Use safety practices while in a foreign country. Here is a website that has some good safety tips. Don't use your cellphone like you use it in the U.S. Be aware of who is near you. You can't do this if you are looking at your phone screen. I have a friend who was in Cambodia, taking a selfie and a guy on a motor scooter drove past and grabbed her cellphone and drove away. She never got it back!

Day 1 Friday, May 9

Recover and Acclimatize

We will have a fairly short flight this morning from Lima to Cusco. The elevation of the airport runway in Cusco is over 11,000 feet. Be sure to take it easy as your body adjusts to the high elevation and lower oxygen levels.

You will primarily be on your own today. Those who need to limit their activity level will be able to do so. Others may want to visit Coricancha, Saxsayhuaman and the 12-sided stone that's in a wall on a street near the main square. Drink plenty of water/electrolytes, limit your physical activity, and watch for altitude sickness signs of headache, nausea, dizziness...

Day 2 Saturday, May 10

Get to Know Cusco and Professional Training

Team 1 - Trainers. Some of our medical team will go to the firestation and do training with first responders. Our "Trainers" provide lectures and hands-on learning.

Team 2 - Humanitarians. This evening at around TBD-pm we'll have "minute-to-win-it" activities with the youth at the church.

Minute To Win It Games

Photography by all ROL-ers... Text your great pictures to 801-505-1840
Start with Singing, led by Bennett and Erika Cannon and Annalee Faucett

Then, start the first Minute-to-Win-It game. Do these games one at a time

Game name: Balloon Stack - 2 Contestants
Leaders: Janee and Dallas Pace

Demonstrator needs
1 balloon and 4 cups

For this game you’ll need to bring a couple of bags of balloons and 8 plastic cups

Each Contestant needs
1 balloon
4 plastic cups

● Set 4 empty plastic cups, open end up, in front of each of the 2 contestants
● Give each person a balloon that they must blow up inside the cup to pick it up
● Players must use this technique to put all the cups in a stack
● The winner is the first one to stack their cups
● Repeat with 2 new Contestants

Game name: Cookie Face - 2 Contestants
Leaders: Larry and Kay Pace

Demonstrator needs
1 small cookie

For the following activity you’ll need to bring a couple of packages of Oreo-type cookies

Each contestant needs
1 small cookie (Oreos)

● Players lean their heads back and place a cookie on their forehead
● They must move the cookie to their mouth without using their hands
● The winner gets the cookie in their mouth first
● Repeat with 2 new Contestants, or you can have 2 teams of 5 kids compete simultaneously

Game name: Suck up the Skittles - 2 Contestants
Leader: Annalee Faucett

Demonstrator needs 1 straw, 1 skittle, and 1 cup

For the following activity you’ll need to bring a package or two of straws, a couple of packages of Skittles, and two plastic cups

Each contestant needs
5 Skittles
1 Straw
1 cup

● Using a straw, players suck up and move the 5 skittles into the cup
● The winner gets their skittles to the cup first
● Repeat with 2 new Contestants

Game Name: Chopstick Kisses in Cup - 2 Contestants at a time
Leaders: Bennet and Erika Cannon

Demonstrator needs
2 chopsticks, 1 cup, and 1 Hershey’s Kiss

For the following activity you’ll need to bring 4 chopsticks, a few bags of Hershey’s Chocolates, and 2 plastic cups

Each contestant needs
2 Chopsticks
5 Hershey's Kisses

● Using chopsticks, move the 5 Hershey’s kisses into the cup
● Repeat with 2 new Contestants

Game name: Bubble Relay, 2 Teams
Each contestant needs to hold a bottle of bubble solutions with a bubble blowing wand
Leader: Caden Hansen

Demonstrator needs
Bottle of bubble blowing liquid and a wand

For the following activity you’ll need to bring 2 bottles of bubble blowing solution with wands

Divide some kids into two teams and line them up in their teams
Designate a Start and Finish line
The Second person in each line blows a bubble for the First person in each line
The First person in each line keeps the bubble in the air by blowing it up toward the ceiling/sky
When they get their bubble to the finish line they run back to the Second person in their team and they process repeats


Day 3 Sunday, May 11

Optional Sacrament meeting in the morning, Saxsayhuaman tour afterwards.

Day 4 Monday, May 12

Our medical team will go to a prestigious medical school in Cusco, Colegio Medical de Andina, train and administer tests to medical students.

Our Core Training Areas

1. Neonatal (Peru) NRP, Sierra, Bart, Chad
1b. igel rather than bag and mask (Ty)
2. Postpartum Hemorrhage and bleeding control (Quick) Bardett
3. Lacerations… (Minor hemostatic lesions with anatomic disruption can be repaired with surgical glue. Second-degree lacerations are best repaired with a single continuous suture.) Perineal support and massage and warm compresses during the second stage of labor (Mike C., Lori)
4. Difficult deliveries… shoulder dystocia, breach, possible vacuums Bardett, Mike C.
5. Delivery and postpartum complications. (They really like this and get very little)
6. Retained placenta, what to do
7. Intubation
8. Hypertension basics Bardett
9. Basic Suturing (Mike C, Lori, Ty) type of suturing, Sierra suturing, masks…
10. Make up tests, questions for the university students

Notes: Mission President, Translators, Words/Phrases
OBGYN primer

Humanitarians: We're going to a village today to have activities with school children

Sharon and Bob McLanahan
> Ribbons and hair products
> Beach balls we can blow up for volleyball
> Balloons to play with
> 25 baby blankets for newborns
> Lead games

Eva Brown
> Face painting
> Sidewalk chalk
> Children's books (Spanish)

Larry and Kay Pace
> Fingernail polish and
> Buttons to play button button who's got the button.

Martin Woodbury
> Hair bows/ribbons and
> Juggling balls

Janee and Dallas Pace
> Large Jump rope
> Hop scotch with chalk
> 20 newborn kits, 10 girl and 10 boy

Judy and James Terry
> Cheerio necklaces
> Balloon stomp
> Stuck it up straw
> Dice games
> Chop stick pick up

Aesalina and Victoria Compton
> Rock painting

Erika and Bennett Cannon
> Songs
> Nail polish and bracelets

Annalee Faucett
> Songs

Caden Hansen
Photography

Allie and Spencer Hunt
Choose from among the following or find another

> Bubble blowing
> Kite flying
> Marbles
> Paper airplanes
> Hula hoops
> Frisbee games
> Nature Scavenger Hunt: Creating a list of things to find in nature (Spanish) and exploring to check them off a list



Day 5 Tuesday, May 13

Humanitarians: We're going to a village today to have activities with school children
See activities above

Our medical team will travel to Abancay to train Obstetras, nurse midwives, and other medical and emergency professionals.

Day 6 Wednesday, May 14

Humanitarians: We're going to a village today to have activities with school children
See actvities above

Our medical team will travel to Sicuani to train Obstetras, nurse midwives, and other medical and emergency professionals.

Day 7 Thursday, May 15

Sacred Valley

We are going to shift gears and have cultural and historical learning in the Sacred Valley, In Pisac and Ollantaytambo. It enhances our service to understand more about the history of the ancestors of those we serve and the beginnings of their culture. Then we take a train to Aguas Calientes or now called Machu Picchu Village where we spend the night. Meals are on own today, though there will be light snacks on the train.

Day 8 Friday, May 16

Machu Picchu

Our tour guide will let us know our itinerary... when we'll board the shuttle buses to Machu Picchu for more cultural and historical learning. We will catch a return train to Ollantaytambo in the afternoon. Meals are on own today. We then catch a shuttle and end the day in Cusco.

Day 9 Saturday, May 17

We plan to fly out of Cusco to Lima in the afternoon so you'll have some time for a walking tour (self guided) in Cusco.

Once in Lima, those departing late Saturday/early Sunday will stay at the airport for their flights home. A few will be staying an extra day in Lima. They will travel to their hotel (travel and hotel stay expenses are on own).

Conference Faculty

Michael Cannon, M.D, Course Director

Michael J. Cannon, DO has professional interests in urogynecologic surgery; high-risk pregnancy; and minimally invasive surgery, including laparoscopic surgery.

In his free time, Dr. Cannon enjoys being active in his church, cycling, horseback riding, and spending time with his family.



M. Bardett Fausett, M.D, Course Co-Director

Dr. Fausett is a maternal fetal medicine specialist who provides care to women with high-risk pregnancies and is the medical director of obstetrics and maternal-fetal medicine at Community Medical Center.

Ty B. Erickson, M.D., Course Co-Director
Ob/Gyn – Urogynecology

Dr. Erickson is dual board certified in Obstetrics/Gynecology and Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery. He maintains practices in Idaho and Nevada. He has trained surgeons in 15 countries on advanced pelvic floor surgery. As a board member of the Janice foundation he provides humanitarian service in Africa and South America. He has associated with Reach Out And Learn in Peru since 2013.

Sierra Brown, Medical Education Trainer, Team Member
B.S.N.

Sierra R Brown, Graduated from Brigham Young University of Idaho with a Bachelors in the Science of Nursing. Past experience on Rehab at EIRMC and Travel nurse at Hilo Medical Center Long Term Acute Care unit.  Currently an RN at Upper Valley ENT surgery center and a Case manager for Nuclear Care Partners working closely with pts exposed to harmful toxins from working at Idaho National Laboratory.

Mark A. Dowdle, M.D, Course Co-Director

Dr. Dowdle graduated from the University of Utah School of Medicine and did his residency at William Beaumont Hospital - Royal Oak. His primary specialty is Obstetrics & Gynecology, which he has been doing for 26 years. Dr. Dowdle speaks Spanish, and on the Intermountain Healthcare Website, his mission statement is "My goal is to provide caring and quality medical services. I strive to share the goodness of this life and give my patients hope in an atmosphere of kindness and respect. The prevention of disease, minimizing pain, and suffering, protection of the unborn, support for individuals and families are my priorities."

Sean Esplin, M.D., Former Course Director

Dr. Esplin has worked at the University of Utah Maternal-Fetal Medicine Division since 2000, after completion of his Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship at the University of Utah. He is board certified in both Obstetrics and Gynecology and the subspecialty of Maternal-Fetal Medicine. Dr. Esplin's main areas of interest are the genetic control of term and preterm labor and the role of inflammation in preterm birth. Dr. Esplin is currently involved in several ongoing research projects sponsored by the National Institutes of Health aimed at identifying markers of preterm birth and obstetric complications.

Chad Fugate, C.R.N.A., Event Leader

Chad is a the Reach Out And Learn International Anesthesiology Medical Conference Course Director. He recently retired from Surgical/Obstetrical Anesthesia services after 50 years working in Hospitals, Surgical Centers and Private Office settings. During much of his career he specialized in Obstetrical and Pediatric Anesthesia. He has decades of experience teaching and practicing Neonatal Resuscitation.  Chad has traveled and worked in a volunteer position, running humanitarian expeditions for 25+ years and 50 expeditions to Peru and Bolivia. He is a fluent Spanish speaker and often translates presentations so Professionals can participate in the conferences. He graduated with a BS degree in nursing and a BA in liberal arts from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah. Chad has a Nurse Anesthesiology residency from Wisconsin and owns a private anesthesia business in Idaho. After obtaining advanced practice credentials, he taught Anesthesia at Idaho State University as an affiliate faculty member and did graduate studies at Gonzaga University in Organizational Leadership. Chad has been on the Board of Directors for three humanitarian organizations and is a Co-Founder of Reach Out And Learn. 

Michael J. Huntsman, M.B.A., Event Director

Mike is the Executive Director for Reach Out And Learn. He received his Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Phoenix in January of 1993. His Bachelor of Science degree is from Brigham Young University. Mike was also a faculty member with the University of Phoenix for 9-years. He enjoys a variety of work, and spends a significant amount of time designing brochures, postcards, and Websites. Mike is a Co-Founder of Reach Out And Learn, along with Chad Fugate. He and his wife Sheila were Service Volunteers for 2-years. They taught a practicum course at BYU Hawaii and helped more than 300 students, most from the south Pacific, with their internships. Currently they are Service-Volunteer Faculty at Ensign College where they teach Business Marketing to a student body of 50% are international students, mostly from Central and South America

Questions & Answers (FAQs)

Please check back as updates to this information are added periodically

What are the fees associated with the ROL end Peru, Maternal-Fetal Health Training Event?

This Reach Out And Learn humanitarian event is focused on helping those in need through 1) professional training workshops, 2) Activities and projects in small rural villages and in schools as permitted.

All participants will receive round-trip airfare between Lima and Cusco, hotel accommodations (double or greater occupancy), and ground transportation to the villages, and cultural sites. Ground transportation from the airport in Cusco to the hotel in Cusco is also included. Our ability to help those in need increases as we gain a greater understanding of the native and indigenous people who live in Peruvian towns and villages, through our cultural experiences and planned outings to significant cultural sites. Past sites have included the Uros Islands, Pisac, Ollantaytambo, and Machu Picchu.

Registration fees do not include international airfare (to and from Lima from the U.S.), medical insurance, meals (although many hotels include breakfast), or personal expenses. Light lunch snacks may be available on "humanitarian activity" days.

This event begins on Friday, May 9 and ends on Saturday, May 17th 2025

Registration Types & Fees

Those who provide training in the professional training meetings will receive an attendance certificate. Includes up to three days in training workshops, with an alternative option to participate, with the humanitarian participants, in interactive activities with school children possibly in remote villages.

Medical Professionals and Humanitarian Registrants:
Early Bird Registration Fee

$3,100.00 If registered by 1/10/2025
$3,200.00 If registered after 1/10/2025

Humanitarian and student registrants may participate in up to three days in the following, an orphanage, school, and villages interacting with children in activities, such as singing, dancing, juggling, necklaces and bracelets, painting fingernails, soccer, basketball, football, marbles or a hobby or talent you bring. Of course, we provide transportation to and from remote villages. Your registration fee does not include international airfare (to and from Lima from the U.S.), medical or travel insurance, meals (although many hotels include breakfast), or personal expenses. Light lunch snacks may be available on "village" days.

Student Registrants:
Early Bird Registration Fee

$3,000.00 If registered by 1/10/2025
$3,100.00 If registered after 1/10/2025

Registration Deadline
The early registration deadline is Friday, January 10, 2025. Registrations after that date will incur higher registration fees.

Bring your friends and family:

This humanitarian training event is arranged so that training professionals may bring family and friends who may participate in up to three days of interactive activities, humanitarian projects, with school children, and needs assessments in remote villages while professionals participate in training workshops. Professionals may participate in a health clinic and training sessions (see online agenda for details). Cultural/historical experiences are planned for the Uros Islands, Sacred Valley, Pisac, Ollantaytambo, and Machu Picchu. Conference directors attending this year have extensive experience in villages doing humanitarian service and cultural outings in Cuzco/Machu Picchu. Our in-country event service is Peruvian and they are the best! (We have had years of experience with them) and this gets us in and out of places where tourist groups do not often go. Our cultural/humanitarian experience brings you to the high Andes Mountains outside Cuzco and the "Altiplano" on the way to Puno and into very small villages. Past participants have stated that Machu Picchu was awesome but the village experience was the highlight of the week.

Note: If you choose to hike the rigorous Huayna Picchu mountain, we need to know by January 10, 2025 in order for us to apply for a permit.

Registration Cancellation Policy:

Event cancellation requests for those who register before Saturday, January 11, 2025 will receive a full refund minus a $500 cancellation fee. Conference registration requests received after Friday, January 10, 2025 no refund will be given. Please send cancellation requests to info@reachoutandlearn.org and we will email you a registration cancellation confirmation.

Paying by Check?

Please contact us to let us know you are paying by check. Please make checks payable to Reach Out And Learn and mail to the Registration Office, 188 W 2000 S, Bountiful, Utah 84010.

Phone: 801-505-1840
Email: info@reachoutandlearn.org
Website: www.reachoutandlearn.org

Planning Committee

Michael Cannon, MD
M. Bardett Faucett, MD
Ty B. Erickson, MD
Chad Fugate, CRNA
Michael Huntsman, MBA

What is included with my Registration Fees?

Includes conference fees (for conference registrants), airfare to and from Cusco from Lima, accommodations: up to seven nights in Cusco, Our cultural and historical training will include a hotel night in Aguas Calientes the night before we visit Machu Picchu. All hotel rooms are double occupancy or greater. Registration also includes a train ride to Aguas Calientes, the return trip from Aguas Calientes to Cusco, and a place to put your luggage in Lima on the day of your return flight to the United States. The conference registration does not include your flight from the United States to Lima and from Lima back to the United States, medical insurance, meals (although breakfast is usually provided by the hotel), or personal expenses.

How do I book and pay for a flight from the United States, to and from Lima, Peru?

Arrange your flight so you arrive in Lima on the very early morning of Friday, May 9, 2025. Your return flight will likely be on Saturday afternoon on May 17th. Contact us if you have any questions

1. Purchase a ticket through an online travel site (Orbitz, Delta, United, Expedia, Travelosity, Yahoo Travel, etc.), or...
2. Check specific airline Websites (American, Delta, United, LAN, Air Mexico, etc.) or...
3. Use your frequent flier miles/award points,
4. Call a travel agent at a travel service such as Christopherson Travel. Christopherson Business Travel: 866 327-7606 Toll free, 801 327-7668 Direct line

When should I purchase my USA to Lima airline ticket?

In recent years, we have found that prior to 4-months out has been the best option. We have shopped both Orbitz and the major airline (Delta, United, LAN Peru) Web sites. We have found that the prices change significantly (up and down) from day to day.

Should I purchase Travel Insurance?

We highly recommend that you purchase travel insurance. It is available from various providers, such as American Express https://www295.americanexpress.com/travel-insurance/home.do?aetiSource=G&&inav=PROT_TRAVAL-Trip_Cancel or Travel Guard http://www.travelguard.com/

What should I pack? The following list includes packing list suggestions: (It is not recommended that you bring everything on this list)

Additional tourist attire:

Waterproof sandals
Sunglasses
Nice comfortable attire such as slacks or skirt and dress shirt for sit-down dinner or possible worship services

Personal Medical Pouch (we recommend the following):

Insect repellent & itch-balm plus or other hydrocortisone-base cream
Sunscreen along with Chapstick or Blistex-type lip ointment
Small first aid kit with Band-Aids, ointment, tweezers, medications etc.
Pain reliever
Diarrhea medication (Imodium/Pepto-Bismol, etc.)
Constipation medication
Cold & allergy medication, throat lozenges or cough drops
Other personal prescriptions if applicable

Personal Toiletries:

Personal hygiene items—toothbrush, toothpaste, floss, towel, wash cloth, soap, deodorant, etc. (an antiseptic cleanser can be a skin saver)
Toilet paper (you may prefer several pocket pouches of Kleenex)
Antibacterial wet wipes--the equivalent of 80-100 wipes per person. Individual pouches can be very convenient.

Miscellaneous:

Personal snack supply: You will buy your own food/water in country, but if you are a "picky eater" or have favorites you can't live without…bring your snacks you prefer (trail mix, granola bars, dried fruit, etc.)
Headlamp or emergency flash light (to be used when the power goes out)
Box/Duct/Strapping tape to be used to repair luggage or to use in the villages.

Items to entertain or leave with those in the villages

Small "American" footballs, soccer balls (you can bring them deflated, then pump them up in the village (bring a small bike pump and a ball needle)
Long jump ropes (more than one person can jump at the same time)
Cultural sharing items i.e. a small musical instrument that you play, magic tricks, costume, etc.
Compact indoor games or projects i.e. cards or beads & yarn
Compact outdoor games (i.e. Wiffle ball, bubbles & blower)

What can I bring with me to have for village children?

We have found that it is best to allocate funds to purchase available items in Peru, rather than transport items in luggage.
World/Continent maps in Spanish (large enough to hang on a school wall, preferably laminated)

English/Spanish learning materials designed for younger children (4 to 9 years old) - these can be cards with pictures and the English/Spanish names on the back.

Blocks with letters to spell out what is on a picture in both English and Spanish. (If it is in a kit with the pictures and the correct spelling on the back in both English and Spanish and then small lettered blocks, preferably colorful used for the students to spell out the names.)

Art or craft materials that the students can use (preferably materials that are reusable).

They love bubbles, used tennis balls, finger paints. They also like their finger nails painted.

Colored pencils and crayons are always a hit. But don't bring paper because it can be purchased cheaply here in Cusco and it is heavy to bring in your luggage.

Magic tricks are also popular. Don't bring clothes or shoes for the school children.

Colorful hair bows and ribbons

What other items can I bring to donate to the hospitals?

Newborn Kits

1 Finished Fleece Receiving Blanket
4 Diaper Pins
4 Flat Cloth Diaper
1 Gown
2 Infant Soap
1 Pair of Infant Socks
1 2-Gallon Zipper Seal Storage Bag

--> Passport and Immigration Card

Keep your passport and immigration card in a convenient, yet secure, spot. When checking into hotels, onto planes and trains, into Machu Picchu, leaving the country, etc., you are required to show your passport. Your Immigration form will be required when you leave Peru for your return flight to the U.S. I scan my passport and email it as an attachment to myself or upload it to Google docs or other online place that I can access if necessary.

Missed flights, missed connections, delayed luggage, etc.

Reach Out And Learn is not responsible for missed flights, missed connections, standby flights, missing luggage, delayed luggage, your late arrival to Peru or Cusco, or airline change fees. We have learned that it is important to have at least two hours between flights in order to have time to make connecting flights. When making your flight reservations from the U.S. to Lima, you may choose to select an itinerary that has at least two hours between connecting flights. If your flight from the U.S. to Lima is postponed or delayed for any reason, we will anticipate that you will join our activities when you arrive in Cusco. We are also not responsible if you miss bus, train, or airline departures in Peru. We are not responsible for your wake up calls or to make sure you board buses, trains, or flights in time for their departures. However, we will make reasonable effort to make you aware of our itinerary and departure times so you can plan for and anticipate departures so you will be able to continue with the group. During your travel to Cusco, if for any reason you do not arrive in time for the group's flight from Lima to Cusco, please let us know by email and we will work with our in-country travel agent to adjust your schedule and possibly avoid flight-change fees.

What hotels are we planning to stay at?

Flights typically arrive in Lima just before midnight and flights from Lima to Cusco depart early the next morning.

The first night, in Lima, since we arrive very late and have an early flight to Cusco planned on Friday morning, we will wait at the airport for a few hours. Our planned hotel in Cusco is El Puma

Rooms will be arranged "double occupancy" or greater (at least two people to a room).

In order for us to reserve a room for you in Cusco, you must register online (for the conference or village activities) at least 90 days before your arrival in Lima.

Where can I find traveler health/vaccination information?

Please visit the CDC Website https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/destinations/traveler/none/peru to find Traveler recommendations. For general questions, please contact the Reach Out & Learn Office. Email: info@reachoutandlearn.org

What village activities will I participate in?
We plan to travel to remote mountain villages high in the Andes to interact with school children with activities such as English lessons, coloring pictures, jewelry making, soccer, frisbee, bubble blowing, etc. We could also work on village, family, and personal histories. If possible, it may be useful to observe how villagers heat their homes, cook their food, wash their clothes, eat nutritious meals, drink pure water, etc. and possible propose improvements.

When can I give items to children and community members?

Reach Out And Learn has found that the best way for us to distribute items is to give them to professionals in our humanitarian conferences and have them give them to people in need in small villages. Local professionals typically know those who are most in need. We also plan to give items such as first-aid and hygiene kits to the community leaders, such as the school master or teacher.

Do I need to sign a Waiver, Release, & Indemnity?

All Reach Out & Learn Volunteers/Participants are required to agree to the terms of a participation waiver that will be emailed to you after you register for an event. To agree to the terms of the agreement, simply reply to the email message, which will send it to us at info@reachoutandlearn.org

Registration Cancellation Policy

Event cancellation requests received by Friday, January 10, 2025, will receive a refund minus a $500 cancellation fee. Conference registration requests received after Friday, January 10, 2025, will receive no refund. Please send cancellation requests to info@reachoutandlearn.org. You must receive a cancellation confirmation (e-mail) from us to confirm your cancellation.

Information About Travelling to and getting around in Peru

Lonely Planet Website or online search, Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.

Reach Out And Learn Event Cancellation Policy

Please register as early as possible, as the Expedition Planning Committee may cancel the expedition if a minimum number of registrants is not reached.

Changes

Reach Out And Learn reserves the right to change information on this Web page as well as arrangements associated with our agenda, training meetings and/or humanitarian activities, as necessary.

Paying by Check?

If paying by check, please make checks payable to Reach Out And Learn and mail to 54-008 Kamehameha Hyw, Hauula, HI 96717.

Continuing Education Information

Each conference participant will receive a certificate of attendance/participation.

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