Educational-Cultural Objectives
1. Continue the educational program from kindergarten through grades 1 to 6 of the Primary School.
2.
Support the making of uniforms so the majority of the children come to school with clothes that are from their environment and nature, which is in line with the value of their true traditional Inka clothing. This involves first we buying wool from the community members and then the mothers, together with their children, will spin and weave so that then they can make the uniforms which will consist of: black homespun pants, a black Unku ( a large tunic/shirt ) a Q'ero poncho, a Q'ero chullo (woven pointed cap), and a pair of sandals for the boys; and for the girls: a full black skirt (pollera),a red Llicla (shawl) an Indian red Aymilla (a sort of pullover/sweater) and a pair of sandals.
 
Orlando Soncco (12) Munay T´ika school Project
 
Q'ero People Celebrating their ancient Ceremonies
Teresa Quispe (11)  Munay T´ika school Project
 
3. Investigation and validation of at least three Ancestral Ceremonies from Inka times, including the music and the ceremonial clothing.
4. We will carry out at least 2 trips to promote Cultural Education - to the imperial city of Cusco and/or Lima. During these journeys the children will present productions of the dances or ceremonies that they have investigated so that in this way the culture and value of the community of Q'ero may be shared and spread, this community that is probably the last center of living Inka ceremony.
5. We will carry out a trip to the Inka Sanctuary of Machupicchu which will allow the children to experience in situ the magnificent work of their ancestors, a city which was built with the Inka's sophisticated social organization and which enabled them to live in perennial contact with their Gods; this experience will teach the children to understand and evaluate the principles of their ancestors the Inkas whose culture related directly with all the natural elements and respected and valued the environment where they lived (ecology), the animals which lived around them, the rivers that ran through their lands. All this is summed up perfectly at Machupicchu.

Richard Aguayo (ChacaRuna)
Director PumaPeru Foundation



Benito Ordonez  Munay T´ika school Project
Munay Ti'ka School-Children
Celia Apaza (5) Juan (8) Munay T´ika School Project
Munay Ti'ka School-Children
Santos Apaza (10) Munay T´ika school Project
Munay Ti'ka School-Children
Attending to Classes in a Snowy Day
 
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