Lucy Chujandama
Facilitator and volunteer
Project Sierra Norte
Savings for Women Program
Chochapoyos, Perú
I work for Project Sierra Norte en the “women saving program.” I am a facilitator for the program, and I’m happy to be working with 281 female participants in the rural zones of Chochapoyos, Peru.
By volunteering, I’m able to share a bit of my training and knowledge and the participants in turn enrich my work and my life. Through the savings program, I met a woman who had suffered abuse on the part of her husband. She was motivated by six of her neighbors to participate in the program and now she is saving and managing her own money; she no longer feels humiliated and obliged to her husband.
