My name is Andrew McLaughlin and I am a teacher at St. Mary Catholic Secondary school in Pickering, Ontario, Canada. In August of 2006, I met Carmen Munoz Franco, the administrator of Killa Inti Hotel located in Cusco, Peru. I expressed to her my desire to start an organization that would allow my students in Canada to help students in Peru. After months of brainstorming, planning and refining, we co-founded Suyakuywan Yachusun, a non-governmental and non-denominational organization based in Cusco, Peru. The name is Quechua and it means Learning for Hope. The organization was founded in hopes of improving the lives and the quality of education for underprivileged students and special needs students in both the urban center of Cusco, as well the greater province of Cusco. The focus of the project is on integrating technology and modern resources into classrooms in impoverished regions so that students in those areas can compete for jobs that require computer experience. However, we also work with the schools to build long term hygiene and farming projects.