In the sector called Lares, we have 67 families living in the following small villages:
- Wacawasi (3,600 meters above sea level – reachable by car)
- Ipsaicocha (4,658 meters above sea level – reachable by horse or walking)
- Patacancha (3,800 meters above sea level – reachable by horse or walking)
Current situation
- Education
– Children (5 to 12 years) walk around 1.5 hours to reach their school in the morning and 1.5 hours again in the afternoon to get back home
– Teenagers (> 13 years) have to leave their families to live in bigger villages with secondary schools
– Teachers are often not capable to do a good job (lacking educational material, not enough teachers, missing teacher trainings, etc.)
– Students from the andean region (and the jungle) have the lowest points in international exams
– Students from this region rarely achieve a university degree - Health
– The mayority of children are undernourished
– One-sided source of carbs: potatos and corn
– Their diet almost doesn’t contain any fruits or meat
– Families cook and sleep in the same room: they breath smokey air the whole time
– No existence of tooth brush, tooth paste, towls or soap
– Not enough (warm) clothes and shoes available - Agriculture Production
– Sale of alpaca wool is the biggest income source
– Potato production for their own living decreases every year (young people leave the villages to study)
– Not enough information how to produce more potatos in a better, natural way
How we can help
- Education
– Bring the school to the children (5 to 12 years): teacher go to children houses
– Have a house for the teeangers (> 13 years) to eat, sleep, study and do different activities
– Prepare educational material in Spanish and Quechua - Health
– Do medical campaigns to find out what’s the real nutritional situation of the children and their families
– Bring the needed nutritive food
– Bring clothes, shoes and hygienic articles - Agriculture Production
– Cooperation with a proffesional in agriculture to give classes of potato production
– Help to sell the potatos in Cusco
– Possibility to talk with professionals of zootechnics to increase alpaca wool production