Welcome to my Blog!
If you didn’t know, I am currently serving as a Community Health Volunteer for Peace Corps Peru. Until December 2025, I will be living in a rural Andean town in the Ancash region serving in the realm of maternal and youth health. Here are the 2 objectives I’ll be working on:
- Promote coordination between the local health post and school to expand nutrition, mental health, physical activity, and sexual and reproductive health education in adolescents.
- Support Peru’s national strategy to combat anemia and malnutrition in children under 5 through educational training activities and working alongside community health workers.
This blog is a space for me to document and reflect on my service and experiences while also keeping friends and family updated on my life.
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If you’ve made it this far, thank you for reading! Hope you enjoy, and always feel free to reach out with an update. Here is my mailing address:
LUCIE RUTHERFORD
OFICINA SERPOST
CASILLA Nº64
AV. LUZURIAGA NRO 714
HUARAZ – ANCASH – PERU
COD. POST. D2001
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After 1 year in Ancash, hindsight is 20/20 going into 2025.
As I look back on the past year, and forward into the next, it is an opportunity to make the most of the time I have left. So, this post is dedicated to the do’s, the don’t’s, the greats, the failures, and the what’s to come. (lock in, this post is half informing the reader…
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The Longer I’m Here, the Quicker Time Flies
Wow, long time no talk. The past couple of months have been an absolute blur. For one, I hit my 1 year mark in Peru (Sept 13). CRAZY how time flies. For the first two weeks in September, I went back to the states for Eric and Andreas’ wedding in Santa Fe, and to see…
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A Long-Awaited Visit
As promised, I would like to dedicate this post to Kim and Ken’s visit. First, I am overwhelmingly grateful that they can fully understand my life here in Pueblo Libre. While FaceTime is a blessing, there are things that just can’t be achieved through the phone: like Mom chatting with my health colleagues about the…
Travel makes you modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
– Gustavo Flaubert
