She got bed bugs three different times — the itching nearly drove her bonkers, she says — and is still taking medication for a stomach parasite she apparently got from the drinking water.
She spent every weekend for four months hauling bags of sand and gravel, sawing hundreds of rebars by hand and mixing concrete while helping construct a new crafts workshop for the Mantay Women’s Housing Project, which provides jobs, education, health care and a secure place to live for 15 single Peruvian moms — all victims of rape….