Ayni Llankay
For every class participant, $10 goes to our local community projects!
Ayni · nothing goes one way
Llankay · service in labor
Supporting our local community has always been a priority for Noqan Kani. In fact, it’s a key element in the Andean way of life to always be generous and participate in helping those in need. Ayni Llankay is our offering to the local communities in acknowledgement of nothing goes one way and service to our community.
These communities are the holders of the traditions and lineages which we share and are responsible for having kept them alive for thousands of years - so in the flow of Ayni, all that we receive in our sacred labor also needs to be reciprocated to them.
One of the best ways to take care of Mother Earth is to take care of her children - especially her children that need help, whether it be in the animal kingdom, plant kingdom or with people. The best service we can do is support our family and then our regional and global community.
We invite everyone to read about our projects and how to support us in doing more - we envision even more communities and families receiving more from us.
Our main project for 2023 is raising funds to purchase land on which we can build a maloca, a sacred ceremonial space where healers can come to learn with the ancestral plant medicines. Once it’s built, our plan is to make it sustainable enough so it will create funds of which a percentage would go towards supporting the local communities.
The funds will go towards community infrastructural projects such as sewage and water systems, and educational projects such as bringing in specialists on women’s and children’s rights to impact families to empower women and take better care of children without exposing them to violence and addictions.
Current Projects
We are in the middle of a project to build a school in the local community of Ocutuan (pictured in the header). The school building is complete, but we need sanitary facilities, desks, chairs, wifi and other school supplies to start up. The vision is to create an educational space as a supplement to their local school where they can learn online about topics otherwise not sufficiently covered such as sexual education, nutritional and health education, English lessons and about their cultural identity in the world. It will be able to help around 50 families and 150 children aged 6-14.
