Building a Weaving Center with Awamaki
We worked in Rumira, a village near Ollantaytambo, Peru, building a weaving center with the Awamaki Organization and EF Tours to support rural Andean women in Peru. We started construction of the structure, laying rock and cement to form a foundation.
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Welcome to Awamaki and Ollantaytambo!
For all of our prospective volunteers and interns out there, check out our office and beloved little town. Get a feel for life as an Awamakian! Soundtrack: Limbo - Daddy Yankee
A big thanks to Jaclyn Lee, our Marketing & Communications volunteer who put this video together!
Weaving Awamaki Tours Peru
Traditional Quechua weaving in Patacancha, Peru with Awamaki
Volunteer in the Peruvian Andes with Awamaki
Help out schools, health clinics and weaving communities in the Peruvian Andes with Awamaki. Learn about Andean life and culture through homestays with local families.
The Old World of Peruvian Craft ~ Isabella of Spell visits an Artisan village in Peru
In April 2018 Isabella and her design team visited our Organic cotton farm and WRAP accredited textiles factory in Peru. While they were there they met with some Artisan women in the hillside villages near Ollantaytambo, they spent time with the women, dying fibres with locally foraged botanicals and weaving brightly coloured textiles in the cool mountain air.
Cinematography - Dominic Sullivan
Edit - Johnny Abegg
Music - Katy Kirby Come Back to Nashville
Let us introduce you to Awamaki
A short exploration of Awamaki's mission and the women we work with. Featuring our Director of Operations, Jesse and the women of Patacancha.
Welcome to Awamaki
An introduction to how fair trade production works at Awamaki. Awamaki collaborates with Andean communities to create economic opportunities and improve social well-being. For more information, check out Awamaki.org. Video by Leva Kwestany
Awamaki
A promotional video for the non-profit organization 'Awamaki' based in the Sacred Valley of Peru. To find out more visit awamaki.org
Video made by Leva Kwestany
PINKUYLLUNA DEPOSITOS DE ALIMENTOS INCA EM OLLANTAYTAMBO PERU
Pinkuylluna foi construída nas encostas íngremes de uma montanha, perto de Ollantaytambo. Uma série de terraços formaram a base sobre a qual ela foi construída. Ele é creditado colca função, reservatório para armazenar uma grande variedade de produtos.PINKUYLLUNA DEPOSITOS DE ALIMENTOS INCA EM OLLANTAYTAMBO PERU POR DUONE LATINO
We (Indigenous students from Patachancha Community) visited Machu Picchu for the first time
On December 9th / 2016 - SAM Travel Peru just took 22 students from the Patacancha community (Located in the Lares Valley) to Machu Picchu: providing them round trip transportation from their communities to Machupicchu, train and bus round trip, entrances, full meals, and guide service in their own language (Quechua the Incas language) with the purpose they can know and restore pride in their culture, history and heritage through experiencing it up close and in person. This kind of educational experience is important to the families and it is a great time for them to enjoy a time together.
Many thanks to everyone for supporting this amazing job, still more social works are coming, of course we do it with a passion this kind of work.
The Roadmonkey Dye House in Patacancha, Peru
Take the tour of the adobe-brick dye house that a Roadmonkey expedition group, working with Awamaki, built for women weavers in Patacancha, 12,000 feet into the Andean foothills.
Cultivating Creativity in Kelkanka 2015
In November, 2015, the cooperative of 18 textile weavers that Awamaki works with gathered for a workshop. The goal of the workshop was to help the women gain confidence in their design abilities.
Muchas gracias to Léo Malgorn and Clément Douard for their camera and editing work and to Megan Lovett for narration.
Léo Malgon - leooooo29@gmail.com
Clément Douard - Clement.douard1@gmail.com
Awamaki & Sacred Valley Health Family Planning October 2012.m4v
Awamaki & Sacred Valley Health, both US-based NGOs in Ollantaytambo, Peru, recently partnered to educate local women on family planning and basic women's health. For more information on either NGO, please visit the links at the end of the video.
Climate Change and Peru
Cassandra Hunter presents at Awamaki (awamaki.org) in Ollantaytambo, Peru. July 2014.
Many thanks to Jesse Zimmerman for translating.
For more information, visit Cusco Running Club (cuscorunningclub.com).
1908 PERO Ollantaytambo 19200x1080 V15
Pérou - Ollantaytambo, située à 97 km de Cuzco, est une imposante forteresse, à 2.792 m d’altitude, qui surveillait le chemin du Machu Picchu. Elle se tient en haut d’un défilé où coule le río Urubamba, au fond de la superbe Vallée sacrée des Incas. Elle fut le siège de combats acharnés entre Incas et Espagnols. C'est l'un des seuls vestiges de l'architecture urbaine inca avec ses bâtiments, ses rues et ses patios. Du haut des ruines, le panorama est magnifique.
Awamaki Thank You Video 2015
A warm thank you to all our generous donors. You made this a great year!
Weaving in Patacancha
Watch as our weavers take you through the process of selecting fibers, spinning yearn and weaving textiles! This video was taken at Awamaki's Weaving Center in Patacancha, a high altitude community about an hours drive from Ollantaytambo.
Volunteer with Awamaki Health at a clinic in the Peruvian Sacred Valley
Awamaki Health is a branch of Awamaki, an NGO working to promote sustainable development in the Sacred Valley of Peru. Awamaki Health places volunteers in the health clinic at Ollantaytambo (a major site of ancient Inca ruins) as well as three other clinics in more remote communities. Volunteers assist with clinical services according to their level of medical accreditation and spanish skills. Awamaki Health aims to provide public health education and resources in the Sacred Valley by offering workshops in schools and clinics on topics such as family planning, sexual health, neonatal and new mother information, nutrition, basic health and illness, and more. We are currently looking for skilled volunteers and potential sponsors to help us achieve our goals!
Somewhere between Cusco and Ollantaytambo - Peru.
Somewhere between Cusco and Ollantaytambo - Peru.
We had to take a van from Cusco to Ollantaytambo because the trains went on strike. That was the best thing that happened to us as we got to see a lot of wonderful landscapes.
Women weaving in Patacancha village
These Quechuan women are from a Peruvian village in the mountains called Patacancha. The weaving tradition has been passed down from generation to generation and they are taught from very young. They are extremely skillful and we were lucky enough to watch them and be given a wealth of information from our tour guide: AWAMAKI (a non-profit organisation). Go on their tours! Buy the women's work! It was fantastic.