Ayni Llankay
For every person on a tour, $100 goes to our local community projects!
Ayni · nothing goes one way
Llankay · service in labor
One way of taking care of Mother Earth is taking care of her children - especially her children that need help, whether it be in the animal kingdom, plant kingdom or with people. The best service we can do is support our family and then our regional and global community. We invite anyone who doesn’t have any local projects, to support our projects and communities who have kept these lineages for thousands of years.
Current Projects
For over 20 years, we have been supporting children in education and supporting local communities in infrastructural projects such as building water systems, and sometimes provisional help. Last year, with your help, we were able to host a Christmas lunch for the children in the local community of Ocutuan (pictured in header). We are especially in need of assistance right now, the price of food is raising dramatically because of the situation in Peru, so we need to support our communities with provisions.
We are in the middle of a project to build a school in the local community of Ocutuan. The school building is complete, but we need sanitary facilities, desks, chairs, wifi and other school supplies to start up. The vision is to create an educational space as a supplement to their local school where they can learn online about topics otherwise not sufficiently covered such as sexual education, nutritional and health education, English lessons and about their cultural identity in the world. It will be able to help around 50 families and 150 children aged 6-14.
Future Projects
We would also like to offer other educational opportunities for the entire community and bring in specialists to discuss topics such as women’s and children’s rights, and impact families to take better care of their children, not exposing them to violence, health and nutrition issues and keep them from turning to addictions. Some of these communities are still in patriarchal processes, so it’s important to help them come out of this feminine oppression, bringing in empowerment of women.
We constantly have short term side projects such as constructing medical posts, infrastructure, sewage and water systems. Medical posts are necessary to in the long term provide regular health checkups and dentistry for locals - for example health and nutrition specialists are needed as there are many incidents of anaemia in this communities, and many of these families don’t have the opportunity and funds to visit doctors or dentists.
How you can help
You can help us through donations - the funds will go towards finishing the school and to start the other projects to support the community. If you feel called, you can even travel here with gifts - you can teach English or anything else you feel comfortable with, or bring school supplies, laptops etc.
We envision reaching even more communities and helping more families, and feel like we can do more. It’s the natural flow of ayni - all that we receive belongs to the land, so it must also be reciprocated to the land and all the children of Pachamama that live there.
