News: La Chocolatada 2010
Our October fundraiser in Orgiva for La Chocolatada raised over €3500, a magnificent effort. A huge thank you to everyone in helping to bring hot chocolate, sweet bread and a small present to over 4000 under-privileged mountain children near Macchu Picchu this Christmas.
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Meg Robinson's Charities
As part of the research for a film, Meg Robinson headed for Bolivia in 2009 to interview the director of an arts centre for street children - www compatrono.com, but found herself bewitched by Peru and the Sacred Valley (leading to Machu Picchu). Here she hooked up with a charity working with underprivileged children - www.pathoftheheart.org, and made friends with a young indigenous couple, Wither and Tatiana Avellanada, ex street-children themselves.
Together, but initiated by them, they have started an aid programme - www.highmountainaidperu.com - taking basic food supplies twice a year to 70 isolated families who live high in a valley close to Machu Picchu.
Now 80% of all proceeds from the sale of Meg's art work, books, and retreats goes to funding these two projects which she has committed to help.
High Mountain Aid Peru
High Mountain Aid Peru is a unique aid project that urgently needs our help.
In the beautiful Huilloc valley, high in the mountains above Ollantaytambo in Peru, where no Spanish is spoken, fifty isolated families are living in conditions almost identical to their great great grandparents.
They grow potatoes and green beans, and all have a few cows, sheep, pigs, llamas, horses, chickens, and guinea pigs. But they have to walk or ride to Ollantaytambo for other basic supplies like matches, salt, sugar, oil, flour, and rice. Some live three days ride from the nearest town.
Wither Avellaneda is a 24 year old local married man with a four year old son. Wither leads small-scale, eco treks - Trek Aid Peru - taking people to meet and experience life with the indigenous farming and weaving families in these high mountains. The treks bring basic winter supplies on horseback to these fifty families, making their lives just a little easier.
This project, High Mountain Aid Peru, is dedicated to helping Wither to help his people, to lead his treks and to ensure that these supply lines can continue.
Path of the Heart
- Path of the Heart touches the lives of those in need, and makes a profound difference in individual lives.
- Path of the Heart provides an extensive range of learning opportunities to impoverished children and adults, helping them to acquire the knowledge, skills and self-esteem necessary for personal success.
- Path of the Heart is a means of education and transformation for those who otherwise would not have the chance.
