PEA Mission Project

Want to visit Peru?

Looking for ADVENTURE and we do mean adventure. Want to work on a mission project where the Alliance and Engineers Without Borders are building a water system for a town of 500 people. Once the water is running the local school will receive free lunches because the “Yanesha kids” will now have water at the school? Want to join fellow HDPE pipe industry colleagues ?

Trip extensions to Machu Pichu.

This project will take place in July of 2026. We are accepting reservations to join the team.
Well known Industry professionals will lead the weeks.

Dusty Langston WL Plastics Captain Week 1

Open Captain Week 2

Alan Ambler PE Alliance Captain Week 3

Peter Dyke PE Alliance Captain Week 4

Who

The PE Alliance is sponsoring this event. WL Plastics, McElroy, ISCO and Integrity Fusion have all contributed to it in a host of ways. Engineers Without Borders helped design it and has a volunteer Spanish speaker and engineer participating as project manager.

What

This is a mission trip where we are building a water system so the village has clean, running water. It requires at least 2,500 man hours to accomplish. An Alliance team laid the ground work this past November when they traveled to Peru, scouted the locations, met the villagers and figured out the details. They also built one of the tap stands. This is a 7 km project with significant elevation and construction challenges. It will take every bit of the four weeks to accomplish.

What is a Work Day?
There are five full work days each week. Days start at 7:00 AM and the team works for a couple of hours then goes to breakfast. We try to get work done early before it gets too warm. We usually quit work by 1:00 PM or 2:00 PM.

Where

Shiringamazu (SHG) is in the Amazon Jungle of Peru. It is a remote Village of 500 people with 150 students. It takes 2 days to get there, but with staging it is more like 2.5 days. You fly to Lima and rest, perhaps get to know the city. Miraflores is the neighborhood to stay in. The you fly over the Andes mountains on domestic airline LATAM to Pucallpa where you will spend the night at the local Wyndham hotel. The next morning at 9:00 AM, a driver will pick you up and you will take a Toyota Hilux truck on a 7 hour journey into deep Peru to Shiringmazu. Half of the trip it on paved road, the other half not so much.

Why

We decided three years ago to give back. We met a retired engineer who believed in HDPE pipe and the Alliance team partnered with him to design the water system. Then we put together a shopping list and filled two 40′ containers with all the gear we need to build the system. That equipment is now in the Village waiting for us. This is our way to give back to people in need.

When

This project will start on June 29th 2026

- Week 1 – 6/29 – 7/3

- Week 2 – 7/6 – 7/10

- Week 3 – 7/13 – 7/17

- Week 4 – 7/20 – 7/24

A typical travel week would look like this. If you are going in week two you would need to be in Pucallpa on Saturday, July 4th. The driver will pick you and others up on Sunday, July 5th at 9:00 AM. You would be in SHG by dinner time. You would lodge in SHG Sunday through Friday night. You would depart SHG on Saturday morning around 8:00 AM. Given the uncertainty of international travel it would be best to arrive Lima on Friday so you would have time to be late and not miss your ride on Sunday morning. So you leave Miami on Thursday or Friday depending upon whether or not you want to spend time in Lima.

How Many

We are looking for 24 people to participate across the 4 weeks. An ideal group is 6 people per week. We will most certainly do it with fewer people, but the groups are organized so that 6 people is ideal.

What is a Work Group? A work group is 2 – 5 people that will focus in one of three geographic areas of the Village.

- Grupo 1 Pueblo – This group works in and around the Village for the week. It is the least strenuous of the assignments. Some trenching may be involved. The work includes stringing pipe (fusion), laying pipe, building tap stands (concrete), constructing a river crossing

- Grupo 2 Mountain – This group focuses on stringoing pipe on the mountain trail. There is a 500′ elevation change from the village to the mountain top. We will lay the pipe in the jungle, build bases for the pressure reducing tanks and construct a reservoir out of 2 or three tanks to hold water before it is released to the Village.

- Grupo 3 Cina – This is the mountain top team, the smallest group and is the final kilometer to the mountain spring. A spring “catchment” will be built at the spring, pipe will connect to it. This is the furthest from the town and the hike is strenuous.

Cost $1,500

Includes

ground transportation to/from Pucallpa to Shiringamazu
Lodging in Shiringamazu
Food in Shiringamazu all week.
** You must get to Pucallpa PCL (Through Lima, Peru LIM).