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ACCOMPLISHMENTS
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
ACCOMPLISHMENTS & CHARITABLE DISTRIBTIONS 2009 This has been a year of review and revision of implementation of services. Our commitment continues to focus on sustainable projects that are inclusive and pragmatic, with an emphasis on skill development, self-determination, and cooperation. Some of the accomplishments in 2009:
- After several years of underwriting the cooperative store, HWF transferred full autonomy to the coop members -- the Asociación del Ayllus Ecologicos del Cusco. This cooperative of weavers and artisans from participating villages sell their fine products at fair market prices as well as share in the management of the store project. This self-help project is now sustainable.
- Funded the training of representatives from four communities in small-scale aquaculture to raise trout for protein to supplement diet of potatoes.
- Funded purchase of trout fingerlings and trout food for aquaculture projects in four communities.
- Continued support of the Ayni School, a primary school in the community of Huecco Uno.
- Sent a team of service volunteers to help with some projects at the Ayni School.
- Funded the teacher at the Cochemarka School.
- Gave assistance to four schools to purchase educational materials.
- Supplied several schools with daily hot lunches for the children.
- Conducted trainings in prevention of dehydration of adults, children, and babies in several isolated communities.
- Conducted trainings in three communities in childbirth hygiene to reduce infant and maternal morbidity.
- Supplied several communities with vegetable seeds for food cultivation in small greenhouses and to improve the nutrition of the people.
- Provided a year of food staples for fifteen elderly in isolated villages.
- Traveled to Huecco Uno, Raq’chi, Hapu Grande, Cochemarka, Yanaruma, and Lekepata to assess needs and discuss possible projects.
- Continued the weaving project, purchasing at fair market value from the weavers in the villages for sale in the United States to support other projects in Hapu Q’eros.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS & CHARITABLE DISTRIBTIONS 2008 has
been a year of expanding existing projects and developing many new programs.
Our commitment is to invest in sustainable projects that are inclusive and pragmatic,
with an emphasis skill development and ayni relations. Some of the accomplishments
in 2008:
- Opened a cooperative store with the Asociación del Ayllus Ecologicos del Cusco, where weavers and artisans from participating villages can sell their fine products at fair market prices as well as share in the management of the store project.
- Established a legal relationship with the Hapu Q’ero people as joint custodians of the land of El Centro de Ayni, the sustainability demonstration site near Ocongate.
- Opened the Ayni School, a primary school at El Centro de Ayni.
- Finished an expanded kitchen and efficiency oven for bread-making at El Centro de Ayni.
- Purchased a table saw and additional power tools for the carpentry shop at the El Centro de Ayni.
- Built a building at El Centro de Ayni for conducting meetings and holding trainings
- Sponsored a film series on indigenous peoples to strengthening cultural identity and pride cultural education and heritage.
- Created a distribution center for donations at El Centro de Ayni.
- Conducted seed exchanges for regional communities to trade seeds to improve food production.
- Conducted monthly medical clinics to treat villagers with health problems who have no other access to health care.
- Built a demonstration greenhouse and cultivated vegetables to improve the nutrition of the people as well as training them in greenhouse operations.
- Funded a small project to bring water in pipes from a lake to village greenhouses during the dry season.
- Provided a year of food staples for fifteen elderly in isolated villages.
- Provided clothing for twenty-six children and fifteen elderly.
- Traveled to Yanaruma, Lekepata, and Quico to assess needs and discuss possible projects.
- Continued the weaving project, purchasing at fair market value from the weavers in the villages for sale in the United States to support other projects in Hapu Q’eros.
- Started an aquaculture project, bringing a floating cage to Yanaruma for experimentation in trout production.
- Established a training program for villagers in pond-based trout production to supplement village diets with high protein fish.
HWF is also sponsoring a program in which younger members of the community interview and audio-record the life stories and knowledge of the elders while they are still living to tell them.
Cochemarka school
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ACCOMPISHMENTS & CHARITABLE DISTRIBUTIONS 2007 through
September
HWF has funded the Hapu Q’ero Tribe and the Ayllus Association of Cuzco for:
- purchase, improvements, and furnishings for Ocongate Cultural and Health Center
- food for the elderly 6 months
- trainings and materials for 80 weavers in use of plant dyes and refinements
- monthly trainings in health care based on available plant medicines
- monthly health campaigns for indigenous villages
- trainings and seeds for improvements in food production
HWF has also provided
- prenatal vitamins for rural pregnant and lactating mothers
- support for weaving projects for Hapu-Q’ero village
- educational materials for Hapu school
- materials for health care education for 30 villages
- food and cooking utensils for Hapu-Q’ero village
- health care services for rural villages
- materials for Q’ero Memory Project
- alpacas for Hapu-Q’ero village
- warm clothing, baby clothes, and blankets
- carpentry and other tools for Ocongate Culture and Health Center
- native seeds and other agricultural materials
- legal fees to obtain title for Ocongate Cultural and Health Center
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ACCOMPISHMENTS & CHARITABLE DISTRIBUTIONS
2006
food for 15 elderly for one year
24 alpacas: one for each sponsored child
school supplies for village school
blankets, mattresses and supplies for community center
$2500 invested in micro-enterprise for all families in village
food for all families in Q’ero village: salt, cooking oil, rice, oats, quinoa
purchase of natural dye for training in weaving improvement
knife sharpeners for 75 families
toenail clippers for 75 families
fingernail clippers for 75 families
baby and children’s warm clothing for 75 families
adult warm clothing for all families
for the community: cooking pots, utensils, bottled gas, honey
5 milk cows to be shared by 15 families
prenatal vitamins, children’s vitamins, and parasite treatments
6 cassette tape recorders with extra batteries to record elders
48 cassette tapes for recording project
tents and sleeping bags for overnight agriculture events
warm leggings for all the women and teen girls
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ACCOMPISHMENTS & CHARITABLE DISTRIBUTIONS
2005
school supplies for village school
$2500 invested in micro-enterprise for all families in village
food for all families in Q’ero village: salt, cooking oil, rice, oats, quinoa
baby and children’s warm clothing for 75 families
adult warm clothing for all families
for the community: cooking pots, utensils, bottled gas, portable cook stove
150 pocket knives, one for each adult
leather work gloves for 75 families
pick-axes for 75 families
pry-bars for agriculture for 75 families
ropes and tarps
tents and sleeping bags for overnight agriculture events
6 soccer balls
1 km vicuna fencing 10 feet high
ACCOMPISHMENTS & CHARITABLE DISTRIBUTIONS
2004
school supplies for village school
food for all families in Q’ero village: salt, cooking oil, rice, oats, quinoa
baby and children’s warm clothing for 75 families
adult warm clothing for all families
for the community: cooking pots, utensils, bottled gas
tents and sleeping bags for overnight agriculture events
soccer uniforms for 6 teams
6 soccer balls
toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, brushes
matches, candles, cooking oil
sterile bandages, gauze, and first aid materials
ACCOMPISHMENTS & CHARITABLE DISTRIBUTIONS
2003
school supplies for village school
6 soccer balls
toothbrushes and toothpaste
$100 cash for mothers’ projects
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