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Ayni in Action º Spring 2009 |
Heart Walk Supporters Raise Funds for Schools
Thank you to all the generous donors, guests, and volunteers who helped us raise $15,000 at our annual dinner and silent auction in February for “Schools of Hope” in Peru. Your efforts will help HWF pay for teachers’ salaries, desks, educational materials, heat stoves, and special training for the teachers in culturally relevant education for indigenous children.
Because of your generosity, the little "Schools of Hope" will deeply enrich entire communities by preparing the children for a brighter future, while their parents and other adults attend workshops in self-sufficiency, sustainable agriculture, nutrition, health and hygiene.
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Help Us Raise $50,000 by April 30, 2009, and Your Gift Will Be Doubled
Donate now to Heart Walk Foundation! There has never been a better time to invest in our mission. Two very charitable donors have offered to match every donation we receive, up to $10,000.
They believe in the vision and accomplishments of Heart Walk.
They believe in the loyalty and generosity of Heart Walk donors.
We leave for the Q'ero communities on May 3rd. We need to know just how much funding we have for the projects this year. And we promise to tell the villagers that you, our dear friends and supporters in the United States who -- despite the climate of economic recession -- have chosen to invest in a mission that saves individual lives, whole villages, and ancient cultures from being usurped and exterminated by apathetic governments and the greedy march of developments across South America.
Affirm your commitment to protect native cultures. Your contribution today will help stabilize the villagers in the land of their Inca ancestors, and ensure that their children will become literate in both Quechua and Spanish. You can send a child to school for less than one dollar a day. Please consider a gift of $50, $100 or more if you can. And by sending your gift now, you can double the number of children who can attend school. DONATE NOW
Or send a check to:
Heart Walk Foundation at 437 So. Bluff St., Suite 202, St. George, UT 84770
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Look What Your Support Has Helped Us Accomplish in
Less Than Five Years: (a small sample)
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Women's Micro-Business Support - Opened a weaver’s cooperative store in Cuzco to sell their fine products and share in the management of the store.
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Self Sufficiency - Initiated a model sustainability program and training center at El Centro de Ayni as joint custodians of the land with the Hapu Q’ero Tribe.
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Education - Opened Ayni School at El Centro de Ayni and the Cochemarka School in one of the isolated Q’ero villages.
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Health - Conducted monthly medical clinics to treat villagers with health problems.
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Nutrition - Established pond-based trout production in four communities to supplement villagers’ poor diets with high-protein fish.
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Water - Funded a small project to pipe water from a lake to village greenhouses during the dry season.
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Agriculture - Donated farming tools to every family in the Hapu Q’ero tribe.
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Men's Micro-Business Support - Donated power tools, lumber, and training in carpentry skills. | |
A Very Personal Gift: Travel-Service to Peru
Give your time in service to the native people, and your heart will be forever changed. Join our next trip July 23 - August 2, and offer your help in any of these programs: the weavers’ store, health clinics, children, greenhouse, adobe brick making, landscaping, medicinal gardens, soap and candle making, herbal medicine production, carpentry, graphic design, and more. This special trip includes air, land, hotels, some meals, visits to archeological sites, and service activities. Approximate cost: $2500. A large portion of your trip may be tax-deductible. Optional Machu-Picchu trip add-on ($250) includes train, hotel, entrance fee. Deposit required by May 1 for best airfare.
Email Shauna at Main Street Travel or phone Shauna at 435.656.8838
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Immediate Needs to Help Our Schools and the Projects:
Digital camera (used) Carpentry tools (used) Vegetable Seeds
Colored pencil sets Watercolor sets Toy farm animals
Books about Plant Medicine, Essential Oils, Candle Making & Soap Making
Contact Us to make a donation of any of these items.
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Alejandro’s Recent Report from the Ayni Center in Peru (a segment)
It’s really nice to learn the different varieties of potatoes by looking at their  beautiful flowers and the shapes of the plants and it’s so nice to know that we will be eating the food that we planted with our own hands in a communitarian effort with various families. This are for shure the most important experiences of our work with the Ayllus, [communities] like the health campaigns, and like every time that humans get together in order grow their food and improve their health. Next year there will be more families growing more food and we are already thinking about our storage places.
In our little greenhouse we’ve been also growing lots of food and everybody at the Ayni House eats from the gardens and the egg providers, chickens, ducks and geese.
 There’s a very special person that wants to join the Trout team, Don Ricardo. He is almost 80 years old, and even with his bad foot he is always in action, always doing something useful and he still has dreams, he wants to do things and he wants to do it with friends, he wants to grow more food at his fields and at his little greenhouse, he always ask me for seeds and he can share with us his experience and his amazing stories. Now he wants to make a trout farm also and he is showing where at the picture.
In a way, what I want is to show you that we are actually working with lots of people, families, Ayllus [communities] from different places and this is good and it is good to start to spread the opportunities besides the support to Hapu, so more people have the chance to learn and to share.
 Fernando also wants to work at the Ayni bakery, and last Sunday Lila came to Hueque Unu [El Centro de Ayni] to teach him how to make a delicious whole-wheat, quinoa, and kiwicha bread that everybody ate with so much pleasure, especially after our last experience making bread the Q’eros style last week. It was nice that I got to Hueque Unu and they were waiting for me ready with the oven going to make bread, but for sure they need to learn how to make real bread although it was nice to share the moment and eat so much white flour bread with muña tea with Fabian’s, Henry’s and Dario’s family.
Fabian made this mobile chicken cube [coop] and he is always m aking anything that we need for the Ayni House, right now he is at Cusco with us because today we finished harvesting our potatoes that we grew at the terraces of my sister house. I believe that Fabian should be the future director of the Ayni House and of many projects that we are developing, he is a very special person, very nice, him and his family, everybody respects him at the Q’eros nation and he is always enthusiastic to work and help.
  Vicente, Dario and Fabian worked together the day before I left Hueque Unu (the Ayni Center) changing the front door of the initial school [primary school] to put it on the back of the school so it is safer for the children [who will no longer have to go out to the highway when they leave the classroom].
I am very happy also with the Ayllus store [in Cusco]. I think that Lila is doing a great job and Rafael has been a very good help. The store looks beautiful and we have more and more products. Lila made some more bread today and among the textiles there are many nice salves and tinctures, granola, honey, incense and many nice things. I hope that we can keep going on with the store because this is very important, it is the door for all the Ayllus projects in Cusco and it is in a way like an Aylluwasi [community center] where all the Ayllus can come, leave their products, leave messages and get to know about the assemblies and workshops. We definitely have to keep going on with the Ayllus store.
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Those people suffering, who are they? I don’t know, but they are my people.
---Pablo Naruda
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Heart Walk Foundation
501(c)3 Tax ID. 20-1918290
437 So. Bluff St., Suite 202
St. George, UT 84770
435-619-0797 |
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