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The goal of this Anthony Torres’ internship is knowing how to defeat chikungunya. By Nelson Peñaherrera . Photos Courtesy Anthony Torres.        LIMA, Peru – I can’t guarantee Malingas ( Tambogrande District) was the place where a mischievous Anthony Moisés Torres ( Piura City , 6/15/1993) discovered his vocation, but I believe that fertilized it. After a scholarship funded by European Union to study at University of Bordeaux , from where he followed the work oft France’s Pasteur Institute and having an internship at Cayetano Heredia National University’s Institute of Tropical Medicine in Lima, this National University of Piura’s school of Biological Sciences undergraduated student (his last year) is amid the paperwork to have a new one in Singapore . “ If you have something in mind, and you really like and passionate it, fight for it,” he repeats. “Opportunities are out there but they don’t knock on your door, you have to look for them.” Before ...

LIMA, Peru – The Peruvian Government assured that for the first time it counts on a measuring of the children development indicators which will allow to have annual information for deciding how to intervene in public agencies directed to work for the first childhood. The evaluation of the early Children Development Mode was applied during the 2018 Demographic And Family Health Survey  (ENDES as its acronyme in Spanish) made by the National Institute of Statistic and Informatics (INEI as its acronyme in Spanish). The mentioned study allowed to measure five of seven results or development areas of the guidelines on Early Children Development (DIT As its acronyme in Spanish) and the diverse conditions enabling or limiting the achievement of each result per life period. The indicators compared to the Healthy Birth and Adequate Nutritional Status results are measured regularily in ENDES. The goverment counts on guidelines for the DIT national policy called Childhood Firs...

One of the best entrepreneurships of Piura has been in a little village.   PAIMAS, Peru – What does it depend the longed quality education for? Is it about teachers, students, parents, community, or everybody? While specialists usually discuss those issues in comfortable offices, at the countryside, where the educational needs are urging, there are initiatives that postergate the theory.   At Túnel VI Village’s 15425 School, 3 miles away to the east of Paimas, a town in Piura Department , four teachers looked for offering a healthy school for 84 students in the six grades of elementary education. “I live in Paimas, I move everyday to the school, we go on mototaxi,” its principal Josué Javier Alburqueque Ramírez told us.   Túnel VI (6th Tunnel) is named because it is one of the posts where Quiroz River is transferred under the Andean Range to Chipillico River for supplying water to San Lorenzo Valley. Around the village, about 1980 feet avove sea level, lives from agricul...

They said that 2012 would be a dry year… they said.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   PIURA CITY, Peru – Sánchez Cerro Vridge, February 24 th , 2012, 7:00 in the morning, 1400 cubic millimeters per second. The water is colorized by the violent improvisation instead of the unexpected. Piura River overload was the season attraction after months and months looking a flow like a creek-category.   The cement coat of Eguiguren Pier avoids the flow power to erode the banks of Piura and Castilla Cities, like it happened in 1983. The work was build after 45 miles to the west, El Niño Current caused extreme rains between January and June of that year.   The river put the people on alert in 1998, 2001, and 2005. Just in 1998, the power of water destroyed Bolognesi Bridge, the fourth from north to south, killing around 50 people. “I’m not never going to forget that number – 4414 cubic meters per second,” El Tiempo’s journalist Teo Zavala remembers. After that tragedy, every ...