Potato Crisis in Q’eros
Nury knelt in the snow and brushed frost from the potato crops she’d planted last August during the traditional Andean planting season.
Gregoria and Covid in Q’eros
With your help, we delivered supplies for a traditional Chocolatada Navideña celebration to the villages of the Hapu and Quico over the holidays
Lighting a Candle of Hope in Dark Times
With your help, we delivered supplies for a traditional Chocolatada Navideña celebration to the villages of the Hapu and Quico over the holidays
Eight-year-old boy crochets for the Q’ero
When he learned that native Q’ero children live in constant cold in the highest villages in the Andes Mountains, eight-year-old Luke wanted to help and began to crochet hats to give warm relief to Q'ero children.
Emergency Relief for Q’eros
Last week Heart Walk Foundation donated 13,000 pounds of emergency food to 200 Q’ero households who had been isolated in their remote Andean villages for almost three months under Peru’s strict quarantine due to SARS-Cov-2.
Q’eros in the Coronavirus Era
Some of our supporters are wondering how the Q’ero people are faring in this pandemic. This is what we know at this time: as of today, there are 2561 persons in Peru known to be infected with CoVid-19.