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Through our travels, we have seen first-hand many of the challenges facing communities around the globe.
We founded Grandeur Peak with a commitment to share a meaningful portion of our profits – and our time – with our local and global communities.
Through our travels, we have seen first-hand many of the challenges facing communities around the globe.
We founded Grandeur Peak with a commitment to share a meaningful portion of our profits – and our time – with our local and global communities.
Shot@Life (UN Foundation). Shot@Life is a movement to protect children worldwide by providing life-saving vaccines where they are most needed.
In March of 2023, Grandeur Peak sent three teams, along with spouses, into the Navajo Nation to build hoop houses (i.e., greenhouses) that support farming year-round.
The Navajo Nation covers over 27,000 square miles and occupies parts of northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and southeastern Utah. Our time was focused on an area within the reservation that was subject to the Bennett Freeze. The Bennett Freeze was a 43-year development ban on 1.5 million acres of Navajo lands by the US Federal Government. It was put in place in 1966 to promote negotiations over a land dispute between the Navajo and the Hopi Indians. It prohibited any structural improvements to the land. This included things like fixing roofs, building houses, constructing gas and water lines, repairing roads, etc. Unfortunately, a resolution between the tribes was not reached and the development ban lasted until 2009. The 40-year ban affected nearly 10,000 Navajo people who lived in the area.
Today, approximately 20,000 people live in the formerly “frozen” area. Sadly, many of them still live without running water and electricity. Overall, the service expedition was a success. We were able to complete all the planned projects, no one got too sick or seriously injured, we obtained a love and appreciation for the Navajo people and gained a bit more gratitude for the socio-economic conditions in which many of us live. We were also able to strengthen many of the personal relationships we have with each other. As someone, somewhere probably once said, “you never really know someone until you’ve camped with them.”
In March of 2018, the Grandeur Peak team had the incredible opportunity to travel to Ecuador with their spouses for a humanitarian project. The team partnered with Choice Humanitarian, an organization working to end global poverty.
Our team joined with villagers in Cotacachi County in building a vocational school to give access to technical training for the 1,500 families in the region. The worksite, in the Intacara Valley, is susceptible to generous rainfall, so our team worked to install a drainage canal by digging trenches, moving rocks, mixing, hauling and pouring cement and bending rebar for the forms. The school is scheduled to be completed in June 2019.
In our travels we saw first-hand many of the challenges facing communities around the globe. We founded Grandeur Peak with a commitment to give back to our local and global community. We worked hard to serve the people in Ecuador. We hope to have made a difference, however small, in their lives, and acknowledge the great impact the people in Ecuador had on our lives. Each of us came home with a new outlook on life and a stronger and closer work family.
In March of 2014, the Grandeur Peak team and our spouses had the unparalleled opportunity to participate in a Grandeur Peak sponsored Choice Humanitarian Expedition to La Reforma, Guatemala. La Reforma is a small village, about ten hours of bumpy bus rides through the jungle from Guatemala City.
Our mission was to help the villagers build wood burning stoves inside their homes in order to increase efficiency and self-reliance, and decrease the major health hazards that come from burning an open fire inside their one-room homes. While we hope we made a difference in their lives (no doubt the stoves do, but our help in building them is questionable), it cannot compare to how our lives were changed because of them. We will never forget their smiles, humility, strong sense of community and simplicity of life, or the energy and laughter of their children. With bittersweet feelings, we left the village, having a greater desire to serve others, be grateful for what we have, and develop a community atmosphere in our firm. We were a team when we arrived, but we came out a family.
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