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Objective  Empowering Peruvian Quechua youth



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Support the establishment of the Cusi Huayna Cultural Center in Chinchero, Peru

The Cusi Huayna Cultural Center will be a place where the Quechua youth of Chinchero can train and practice their traditional dances and songs.

The center will also include a library for students to study about their culture. The center’s goal is to offer exchanges so that youth from around Peru and other parts of the world can study at the center. The center will be located in the heart of Chinchero.

Cusi Huayna is a youth group committed to preserving and promoting traditional indigenous folklore and wisdom of the Quecha culture in Peru.

Cusi Huayna was founded in 2000 in Chinchero, Peru, and is now directed by Puma Singona, a young Quechua medicine man and leader.

About 20,000 Quechua speakers live in Chinchero, situated in the Peruvian Andes near Cuzco.

While the Quechua culture has remained strong despite colonization, the economic marginalization of the Quechuas people has left many in poverty. Youth are often forced to migrate to the cities to look for work and social problems like alcoholism have developed within the communities.

The poorest of the poor in Peru are the indigenous people living in the southern highlands. About 70% of the Quechua and Aymara communities—more than 5 million people—live below the poverty line.

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