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Quechua Library
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Featuring articles for and about the Quechua Benefit
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Quechua Benefit has entered into a joint project with Health Bridges International (HBI) to do a needs assessment in the Colca Valley where Casa Chapi will be located and the site of the medical clinic that we are designing and building. The survey is being conducted according to an acceptable research protocol supervised by the University of North Carolina. The results will be published in professional journals. HBI has done several of these surveys in other areas of Peru and has worked on other projects with Quechua Benefit. We are looking forward to gaining the kind of information that will make our new clinic and the services we provide in the Colca effective and targeted. Click here to open the survery.
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The midday sun in the high sierra of Peru is blinding. I close my eyes and consider the evolution of Quechua Benefit, which began in 1996 with a simple request. Don Julio Barreda asked if we could help the children of Macusani, and Dr. Mario Pedroza responded, "Could I give them dental care?" "Bueno," said Don Julio. In 2007, during the Quechua Benefit trip to Peru, Dr. Wayne Jarvis shared with the dental team members a New Testament verse that perfectly defines the moral imperative at the soul of the charity.
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The annual Futurity Show and Auction has been home to the Quechua Benefit auction for the past 4 years. To date, the auction has raised more that $ 400,000 from generous alpaca breeders across the United States. This year’s bash was a big success and ended with your truly turning up bald.
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Mother Teresa said “If I look at the masses I will never act, if I look at one I will”. This simple wisdom reveals a facet of the question; why do people donate money to Quechua Benefit and also may tell us a little about why people do not donate. There are in fact many reasons why people do not give to a particular charity or why they may give to one cause and not another.
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Quechua Benefit, a non-profit tax-exempt organization in both the United States and Peru, is dedicated to providing relief to the Quechua People of the Peruvian alpaca farming regions. Quechua Benefit, operated entirely by volunteers, was founded in 1996 in response to a simple question from a Peruvian alpaca breeder to fellow breeders visiting from America: “Can you help?” The motivating principal of the Quechua Benefit charity has been to provide a vehicle for Alpaca Breeders to express their thanks to the Quechua Indians who have domesticated and cared for the alpaca from more than 50 centuries.
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Quechua Benefit began in 1996 with a modest trip from Portland, Oregon to Macusani, Peru. There were five team members; Dr. Mario Pedroza, his wife Barrie, Russ Gratton, Mike Safley and Barb Lopez, a dental assistant in Mario's office.
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Sister Antonia Kayser is a plucky 81 year-old Catholic nun with a secret. Born and raised in the borough of Brooklyn, New York she is a member of the Maryknoll Order. Sister Antonia has been feeding 800 dirt-poor people a day since 1983 from the courtyard of the church in Yanque, a small town in the Colca Valley of Peru. Antonia does this five days a week, year in year out. On Saturday she feeds 400 more-young children who rarely get enough to eat. If you were to do the math you would find that over the years, Antonia has provided hungry men, women, and children with nearly 6 million individual meals.
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The indigenous Indians of Peru are unique in the modern world. They are uniformly spiritual, uninterested in politics, and loyal to their families; they are not greedy or materialistic; they express themselves in shy smiles and rarely complain.
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