HATUN RUNA

Great Peoples, Great Partners

Supporting the education and healthcare of children in the Peruvian Andes

 
Hatun Runa” means “great people” in Quechua, one of the native languages of Peru. High above the Amazon basin, in the “Eyebrow of the Jungle,” in isolated towns and mountain villages of the Northeast Andes, Hatun Runa is working where no other nonprofits have ventured. Providing support for education, health care and everyday domestic life, we are building strong partnerships and empowering communities to carry out focused, sustainable projects that make a difference in their lives. With little electricity, clean water, sanitation, health care, or resources for education, and six months of torrential rain each year, everyday life is desperately challenging. Hatun Runa focuses on helping the local people obtain desperately needed resources and training for their schools and health clinics. Above, working on the reservoir and unpacking books at one of the elementary schools in Leymebamba. Far Left, the medical outpost in Los Chilchos, 25 miles into the Andes from the town of Leymebamba. Near left, hiking for hours in mud and rain.
 
 

WHERE WE WORK

Leymebamba, Peru

Population  4000

location  Chachapoyas, Amazonas







“Mira con quien andas y te dire quien eres.”









 

“Show me who you      walk with and I will tell  you who you are.”


“Super” guides Sinecio Gutierrez and Javier Farje.

BREAKING NEWS! 2012 Team Success Another amazing expedition this summer. Our two teams accomplished so much! Our Loose Change campaign supported the building of a new school room in the village of Atuen and books for several other remote schools. Book and more books to the new town library in Leymebamba which has become a center of student and town activity. Taught neonatal resuscitation through the WHO Helping Babies Breath program. Installed a solar power system, lights, electricity, medical refrigerator, and radio in a remote health post. Provided medical consultation to the town clinic Supported a new multi-village mother’s organic gardening project and continued support of our children’s land preservation and healthy garden project. Continued teaching English at the request of local guides and students. We also had a wonderful student film crew from Utah Valley University who is making three films about the people and issues of Leymebamba and the work of Hatun Runa. Click on the links, above right, to see their first film as well as other videos of the new schoolroom in Atuen! See photos of our teams and work. Click here
When Dr. Flores showed us his current supplies for the “emergency room,” he opened a small cabinet. There was a stack of gauze, some syringes, suturing materials, a few vials of medication, and two bottles of rubbing alcohol. The day we arrived, a one year old child died of a preventable pneumonia and there was not one piece of medical equipment or the needed antibiotics to save him. 10,000 people rely on this clinic. Today, Hatun Runa, in partnership with El Centro de Salud de Leymebamba, has provided equipment and supplies to not only create a full labor and delivery room, a laboratory, exam rooms, and partial emergency room, but also to help furnish the clinic and give resources to four mountain health posts deep in the Andes and to the local healthcare worker training institute. We have now initiated a healthcare training program with visiting physicians from the United States to help medical staff and village workers meet the ongoing needs of the people they serve.

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WATCH 2012 FILMS


  2. Loose Change Campaign Fundraising Project 2012

  3. by Nicolas Ciorogan


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7duauYJT-s


Tradition in Today’s World: The Women Weavers of Leymebamba

Director - Markus Aedo

Cinematographer - Matt Johnson

Audio - Kayla North


Finalist

World Crafts Council Film Awards


https://vimeo.com/48577341


  1. Team leader Antonia Heironymus takes you through the new school room in Atuen.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l21le1Oalro







2013 Campaign Launches

January 26th - February 3

Wayland, MA


Our Goal: $12,000.00

We can do it!

Look for collection jugs around town or click DONATE.

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead