Our Crowdfunding Groups
Studio Andino is grateful for the enthusiastic support for our first ever crowdfunding campaign. We would also like to thank the Iowa State Foundation for launching this new fundraising platform for which we had the honor of serving as the pioneering project. We hope FundISU continues to create similarly successful opportunities for others at Iowa State University to raise money for studio projects, student travel, and other activities that do not require large grants from slow moving external sources and institutions.
Please check back often for updates about Studio Andino 2016's adventures!
Many thanks to everyone who contributed!
Estudio Andino agradece el apoyo entusiasta de nuestra primera campaña de crowdfunding. También nos gustaría dar las gracias a la Fundación del Estado de Iowa por el lanzamiento de esta nueva plataforma de recaudación de fondos, en la que hemos tenido el honor de servir como proyecto pionero. Esperamos que FundISU continúe creando oportunidades igualmente exitosas para otros en Iowa State University para recaudar dinero para proyectos, viajes de estudio y otras actividades que no requieran de grandes, lentas donaciones de fuentes e instituciones externas.
¡Vuelve para ver nuestras actualizaciones de las aventuras de Estudio Andino 2016!
¡Muchas gracias a todos los que contribuyeron!
12 hours to go. Thank you last minute donors. We appreciate the extra help!
We only need another $135 in donations to meet the full $250 match challenge. Spread the word! Let's make it over the $8K mark!
We have earned $60 of that $250 challenge. Send out one last email to someone who might be willing to help. We only need another $190! That's 9 willing neighbors and 5 moto-taxi drivers!
Here's a shot of another unfinished project--many partly dressed stones are scattered throughout Machu Picchu's quarry.
With only 5 days left in the campaign we have a last minute challenge from another friend of the studio! Please consider making a contribution, large or small, to help us win a $250 matching gift!
Spread the word: all additional donations will help reduce student travel costs.
Today some very generous gifts pushed our total past our basic project goal! Many, many thanks to everyone on the donor wall who have made this campaign so successful! All additional contributions received during the final week of the campaign will allow us to supplement the construction budget if necessary and reduce the students' travel costs.
Please continue to help us spread the word and share this project via social media. A gift of any amount will help students who participate in Studio Andino 2016.
Here is a photo of two kids from Manchay, the neighborhood where we worked in 2015, and two ways to make use of old tires.
$10 pays for water, power and lunch for our student construction crew for one day! An anonymous donor has offered to match the next $400 in contributions. Make your gift today and have double the impact! A gift of any amount is helpful to ISU Design students as they travel to Peru.
As we head into the final campaign countdown, Studio Andino alumnae/i are well represented on the donor wall. Here are group shots with our Peruvian partners in 2013 and on the construction site of the microlibrary in 2014.
This past week many Studio Andino alumnae/i gave generously to support our work in 2016. Many thanks to all of you! Here is a shot of the class of 2012 at Machu Picchu--behind us is Waynu Picchu, the steep mountain we just climbed.
Many thanks to those who donated in the last few days!
Here are two photos--one of our 2015 crew moving tires up the hill in Manchay, from the Ruwasunchis community center to the soccer arena, and another of kids painting those tires, which now serve as seating and places to play around the playing field margins.
Thank you, Peruanas, for helping support Studio Andino 2016. We value your contributions to next year's project and look forward working with you again in March.
Huacho and Pierina are hard at work on top of the Ruwasunchis shade structure in this photo taken March 2015.
Many thanks to our first donors! The campaign is up and running with enthusiasm because of your generosity!
At our jobsites we rely on our wiling neighbors to provide water, power, and cooked lunches for our construction crews—they rarely charge more than $10 per day. Most of these families have daily household budgets that are much less and our projects provide extra income. Your small donation here goes far.
Donations of $20 will support our neighborhood transportation costs. We pay local moto-taxi drivers to take us to and from our building sites, which are inaccessible by our regular chartered buses.
We buy tools and hardware from shops in the neighborhoods where we work. The prices are generally very low and the opportunity to interact with local people invaluable.
A large part of our budget for projects in Lima is devoted to transportation from our hotel in Miraflores to the outskirts of the city. A donation of $100 will pay for one day’s round trip by bus. Our bus drivers help navigate Lima’s intense traffic from the city center to the end of the pavement in neighborhoods like Manchay.
Building materials are another large component of the project budget. We try to spend our money in the neighborhoods where we work, which means many small loads of lumber, bamboo, or cement--that rarely cost more than $250--are delivered in a small car or taxi.
Each year we provide a small stipends of $500 to our Peruvian partners to help manage the project site preparation and coordinate the construction process. Without these “boots on the ground” we would not be able to accomplish so much in such a short period of time.
Studio Andino 2016 will be working at two sites, one in the Manchay neighborhood with our NGO partner Ruwasunchis, and one at the fishing wharf in Chorrillos. A donation of $1000 will help fund this expansion and permit us to launch one of our more ambitious design-build projects at the wharf, such as the reclamation and repurposing beached wooden boats at the site.