The Purpose of our Projects: is to form leaders who can create and serve healthy communities, connecting with other healthy cells in a global, eco-social movement.
For more details about the projects our non-profit is developing, please visit our official project website: https://www.ruedasagrada.org/
Challenges in the Andes
Traditional Andean life was based on ‘Ayllu’ (‘community’) and ‘Ayni’ (‘reciprocation’), whereby community members worked together to exchange time and resources to collectively support their culture, health, nutrition, and environment.
Over Andean history, most spiritual leaders were either killed or driven into hiding, bringing about the decline of this great cultural and spiritual era.
Today, Andean people face further threat to their ways of life, largely due to the influx of western culture which promotes individualism, and sees western education as the only means to social status and material gain. With technology regarded as the sole method of communication, pharmaceuticals centered on destroying disease rather than treating the person, and food being produced unethically and synthetically, we see that Andean culture is at serious risk of dissolution.
This is the common situation for indigenous populations throughout the Americas. Traditional tribal life is nearly extinct, as is the ancestral wisdom which can bring the healing that the modern world needs. Tribal youth are divided between serving their ancestral lineage and chasing the dream of the western world.
These circumstances demand that Andean people rise up, that their leaders reunite pueblos in a contemporary context while honoring the splendor of their invaluable traditions. From this, a brave new world can emerge.
Over Andean history, most spiritual leaders were either killed or driven into hiding, bringing about the decline of this great cultural and spiritual era.
Today, Andean people face further threat to their ways of life, largely due to the influx of western culture which promotes individualism, and sees western education as the only means to social status and material gain. With technology regarded as the sole method of communication, pharmaceuticals centered on destroying disease rather than treating the person, and food being produced unethically and synthetically, we see that Andean culture is at serious risk of dissolution.
This is the common situation for indigenous populations throughout the Americas. Traditional tribal life is nearly extinct, as is the ancestral wisdom which can bring the healing that the modern world needs. Tribal youth are divided between serving their ancestral lineage and chasing the dream of the western world.
These circumstances demand that Andean people rise up, that their leaders reunite pueblos in a contemporary context while honoring the splendor of their invaluable traditions. From this, a brave new world can emerge.
Solutions
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To sustain the Andean people in this call to action, we see the need to co-develop formation centers that can train the indigenous in community leadership, based on their ancestral wisdom.
At our formation center, we offer free community education to aspiring Peruvian leaders from local communities. |
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With their formation, these leaders can initiate community projects that are rooted in ancestral tradition but actualized in modern-day context, to address the most urgent needs of the collective. They can recover cultural knowledge and practices, connect innovative education with tradition, initiate ethical economic enterprise, and provide healthy nutrition to their community.
The products and services developed by the community can be exchanged with other pueblos through a collaborative network, thus reinforcing Ayllu and Ayni values. By sharing together, people expand their holistic vision and deepen their potential to be at service to Life.
This project-based approach can serve as a model for other indigenous and intentional communities, and we propose many ways in which one can participate or benefit. We also extend this local project model to our relations worldwide.
The products and services developed by the community can be exchanged with other pueblos through a collaborative network, thus reinforcing Ayllu and Ayni values. By sharing together, people expand their holistic vision and deepen their potential to be at service to Life.
This project-based approach can serve as a model for other indigenous and intentional communities, and we propose many ways in which one can participate or benefit. We also extend this local project model to our relations worldwide.
"It was great to be part of building a project like this, which is full of power and energy". |
For more details about the projects our non-profit is developing, please visit our official project website: https://www.ruedasagrada.org/
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