Heart Walk Foundation

EDUCATION FOR LIFE

Bilingual Books for the Q'ero People
Schools for Isolated Villages
Huecco Uno School
Traditional and Cultural Arts
Training for Adults

BILINGUAL BOOKS ABOUT THE Q'ERO PEOPLE

Children of Q’eros communities composed stories about life in their village through a special grant from Heart Walk Foundation. These bilingual books in Quechua and Spanish are ready for publication.

Needs
$5000 to print the children’s books and distribute them to rural classrooms.

SCHOOLS FOR ISOLATED VILLAGES

Few children in the villages of the Q’ero Nation have ever seen a classroom, touched a book, or held a pencil. Their parents recognize that education of the children holds the greatest hope for the future of the entire community. Tiny hamlets are separated by steep mountains, hours apart by foot, so children cannot attend a central school. The solution is a one-room school in each hamlet. Because the government refuses to fund schools provides only a teacher for each hamlet in these villages, they are entirely dependent on donations for learning materials and books to give children literacy, math skills, and dignity.

Yanaruma School

Cochemarka School
Opened in the fall of 2008, in an isolated hamlet of Q’eros, this first one-room school was built by the community in hopes to give their children the literacy they never had.

More Schools Needed

Needs
Picture books, books in Spanish, teaching materials, memory type matching games, manipulative materials, flashcards, math materials, educational posters. Funds to train teachers in culturally sensitive, child-centered methods.

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HUECCO UNO SCHOOL
Opened in May, 2008, this primary school represents a collaborative effort of parents and children who had never had a chance to attend school before. The curriculum integrates Andean life with fundamental education skills and includes workshops for parents in nutrition, hygiene, health, and sustainable agricultural practices.

Needs
Construction of additional calssrooms. Picture books, books in Spanish, teaching materials, memory type matching games, manipulative materials, alphabet cards, flashcards, math materials, educational posters.

TRADITIONAL AND CULTURAL ARTS
Through workshops in weaving, music, instrument making, and so forth, participants share traditional technologies and esthetic values, preserving culture and teaching younger generations.

Needs
Carving tools, workshop expenses, travel expenses for participants.

TRAINING FOR ADULTS
Workshops promote sustainability in agriculture, health, hygiene, cooking, nutrition, basic first aid, and self-sufficiency, such as the ‘Repairing Your Own Shoes’ workshop, sewing cotton diapers, and building tables and benches for the schools. Trainings serve to keep precious money and resources from leaving the villages and increase self-sufficiency in framing communities.

Needs
Volunteers to teach self-sufficiency workshops in their fields of interest (translator available).

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