PAMPALLACTA & PARU PARU
MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY PROGRAMS
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High in the mountains above the Sacred Valley live twelve indigenous Quechua communities — remote, resilient, and too often overlooked. We are connected with all twelve, and each week we carry our work up to two of them: Pampallacta and Paru Paru. What we bring is simple, consistent, and rooted in relationship.
Support for families
Connection and relationship
Beyond classes and meals, we are simply present — supporting households where we can, showing up year after year, until presence becomes trust, and trust becomes family.
Cultural programs and activities
Gatherings that celebrate and strengthen Andean identity, keeping language, tradition, and the joy of community life alive across generations.
Educational classes
Weekly classes for children and families — literacy, learning, and practical skills — taught in a way that honors the knowledge already living in these communities rather than replacing it.
A warm, nourishing meal at every visit. Alongside pure mountain water, herbal teas, fresh fruit, and other traditional Andean snacks.
Hot Meals
In Pampallacta, on land the community entrusted to our work — land that remains in their own name — we've built three lasting spaces:
A large maloka — a communal, ceremonial gathering space.
A communal oven — where whole-grain bread is baked and shared, used freely by community members as their own.
A smaller maloka — for classes and everyday gatherings.
They were never built for our programs alone — they belong to the whole community.
Infrastructure We've Built:
What We Provide: