Important Achievements of PumaPeru Foundation
 
Meeting, Director Richard A. with Q ´ero people
R. Aguayo Meet the Q'ero Leaders

(Some of our projects were sponsored by the important contribution from Donna Runnalls and The Living Bridges Foundation)

* Investigation and identification of the main social problems in more than 5 ancestral communities of Inka root.

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Dedicated to providing direct and practical support to the communities of Q'ero and Q'ero Totorany, projects are scoped following an investigation with the community then prioritised and implemented in partnership with the community.

Richard Aguayo sharing food with Q'ero people
R.Aguayo Shares Food With Q'ero People

* The first organization that actually carried out REAL works in the ancestral communities of Q'ero and Q'ero Totorany -- we have already built 11 SYSTEMS OF DRINKING WATER in the following Annexes-Towns:


01. Annex Charcapata - Q'ero Community
02. Annex Choa Choa - Q'ero Community
03. Annex Collpacucho - Q'ero Community
04. Sub-annex Chaupimayo - Q'ero Community
05. Annex Challmachimpana - Q'ero Community
06. Annex Ccochamocco - Q'ero Community
07. Annex Hatum Rumioc - Q'ero Community
08. Central Village(Capital) Hatum Q'ero - Q'ero Community
09. Annex Tantana - Q'ero Totorany Community
10. Annex Ccolullo - Q'ero Totorany Community
11. Annex Choa Choa - Q'ero Totorany Community
Inauguration Water Reservoir in ChoaChoa-Q'ero
Water Reservoir Inauguration in Q'ero
 
Arduos stone work for water taps
Working in the Stone Water Taps
(All of these systems have a design created by Richard Aguayo which is in architectural harmony with the environment and the style of the communities where the houses are constructed of rustic materials (stone and mud) and are roofed with straw; so our water system have a natural stone facing instead of cement and paint)
Perfect Harmony  Q´ero People-Stone Houses-Stone Water Taps
Perfect Combination Stone Water Taps Q'ero People & Stone Houses
 
Greenhouse in Charcapata Q'ero
Our Greenhouse in Charcapata Q'ero
* Construction of Greenhouses in the Annexes of Charcapata and the Sector of Pacco'pampa in the Community of Q'ero.
Children eating for the first time Radishes from our greenhouse
Children from Munay Tika School eating Radishes for the first time
 
Native School for our native children
Q'ero Children from Munay Tika School

* The building and establishement of a school called ¨Munay T'ika¨, first and unique of its type, created to enable the children to develop a new feeling of learning based on their own history, religious beliefs and above all the environment in which they live, applying a program that allows the children to learn and to fully express themselves in their own language.


The School has been helping Q'ero children since 2,000, providing educational materials and teachers: After many years working in partnership with the community the Munay T'ika School now have the following educational grades: Kindergarten; First Grade; Second Grade; Third Grade; Fourth Grade; Fith Grade and now for the last two years a new Sixth Grade has been added.

* Also in the Munay T'ika school a program of adult learning has been established where adults, and especially women, have attended regularly. Here they learn how to read and write which will also enable them to help their children with their school work.

 
* Having lived and worked closely with the communities for several years we have been able to listen and to understand the problems of this community and as a result support them to correct some of them. One key area is to support the citizens of Q'ero to regain their confidence in themselves, with this they can return freely to their religious ideas. As a result of our presence and work over the last eight years the percent of community membership involved in the religious sect of the Maranatas has dropped from 25% to only 3 % ( This evangelical sect purposely attempts to erase all traces of cultural, religious, philosophical manifestations of ancestral Andean beliefs of the Q'ero people as well as of the Andean and Amazonian communities.)

Director Richard Aguayo in Ceremony with Q´ero old People
Director in a Q'ero Ceremony
With Pututo Q´ero call Apus, and Introduce Richard Aguayo
Director Being Introduced to the Apus by the Q'ero People
Q´ero ceremony Carnaval Chullumpi
Ancient Ceremony to Be Blessed by the Apus
 
 
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