Holistic education for 50 children in rural Peru

This is not a normal beginning for our scholar year at Yachay Kuska school.

Teachers have been getting ready during February, they ´ve participated in teacher trainings, planned classes, decorated and organized all the different spaces of the school.

On March 10th the school was full of children, all with big smiles in their faces. It was a great day, full of laughter, joy, reunions, hugs and games. Children came with their families and we shared a wonderful  time toghether. 

As every year, we started with a traditional thanksgiving ceremony. We made an offering to the "Pachamama" (MotherEarth) to give thanks for a new year, for being toghether, for the opportunity to attend school... We also asked for our wishes for the year using a "kintu" (three coca leaves toghether, as the inca tradition) that we blew in the direction of the "Apus" (sacred mountains) around us and then offered to Pachamama to be burried.

The following three days passed with normality and joy, until we received the sad news that a virus was spreading all over the world. Peru entered a state of emergency and schools had to suspend classes indefinitelly.