Volunteer US high-school students help rebuild town in Cañete (Excerpt)

A group of 315 volunteer students from Brien McMahon High School spent a whole week in Coayllo, located in the Lima province of Cañete, helping local residents to rebuild their rural, earthquake-damaged village.

“The experience was eye-opening,” says Jaylen Williams, a sophomore, who was amongst the first students who arrived in Coayllo, where she helped to build an aqueduct for the nearly 500 locals.

The village had not any water source nearby since 2007, when an earthquake destroyed much of the village.