UNIVERSITY SERVICE LEARNING. AN EXPERIENCE IN A PERUVIAN AMAZON NATIVE COMMUNITY

Abstract

This article gathers the experience of Learning Service (LS) that was carried out with Spanish and Peruvian university students, through cooperation actions in a kechwa native community of the high Amazon rainforest in Peru. This collaboration could be carried out thanks to the formal agreement between the National University of San Martin of Peru and the University of Valencia (Spain), within which the service was carried out in the Chirikyacu Community in the San Martin region (Peru). The students' performances were carried out during the internship period of both university institutions. On the one hand, Spanish students were integrated into the community to carry out cooperation tasks, which led to improvements in coexistence between community members and in the educational level. For its part, Peruvian students focused on the installation of a community orchad, a poultry farm and issues related to health education.