The magnificent dream of Luis Chávez Rodríguez
Romance Studies graduate student Luis Chávez Rodríguez, who is completing a doctoral dissertation on depictions of the Amazon in Peruvian narrative, is featured in Bostonia for his community service in Perú:
“Three years ago, Chavez spent $40,000, most of it borrowed from banks, to build a community center and library, called Casa del Colibrí, or Hummingbird House. He also started a program, funded by Chirimoto natives who have moved to Lima, to provide school supplies, and he persuaded town leaders to bring back the annual heritage festival, a three-day (and night) community-building party that hadn’t been celebrated since the flood. But Chavez’s most valuable gift to his village may be persuading a small group of engineering students from Boston University to buy into his dream.”