We took school supplies, fruit, clothes and school furniture to Airepampa on March 27, 2021.

Our sixth and final chocolatada was in the village of Siusa, high in the mountains above Pisac. Along with panettone and hot chocolate, we took clothes for children and food for each family. We are so grateful for our donors whose generosity made all of these chocolatadas possible!

Our second chocolatada for the Q’ero Nation was at the village of Hatun Q’ero. We also took clothes for children and food for each family. This community lives in a high altitude valley, hours from the nearest town with healthcare access. Their isolation has kept them safe from the pandemic so far and we hope that taking food to them will help them stay in the mountains, away from exposure to Covid.

The Covid Relief Project took a chocolatada to the village of Marampaqui, at the foot of Mt. Ausangate. Besides the chocolatada, children received warm clothes and each family received donation of rice, sugar, oranges and panettone.

Our third chocolatada went to the village of Japu, which is part of the Q’ero Nation. This community is about six hours from Cusco and you need 4 wheel drive for the mountain road. This isolated mountain community still lives a very traditional lifestyle, although they still need basic communication and healthcare. There is no cell service or radio signal in their valley. The nearest healthcare is three hours away, if you can get a ride. The village is at the end of a rough dirt road, so few vehicles ever go there.

We held a chocolatada in Mayubamba and at the elementary school in Paruro. The children of Mayubamba also received warm clothes and their families received rice, vegetable oil and hygiene kits donated from the Maytaq Wasin Hotel. The children in Paruro each also received eight bags of oatmeal and a package of cookies.

The Covid Relief Project took a chocolatada, food and warm children’s clothes to the five microcuenca of Ccarampa Chaiña. These families live hours from the nearest town and have no access to public transportation or health care.

The Covid Relief Project took school supplies and food to the village of Mayubamba, about two hours from Cusco.

The Covid Relief Project took emergency food aid and school supplies to 90 families in need in the rural community of Chahuay.

The mayor of Pisac asked the Covid Relief Project to take food to the communities of Taray and Picol, because they have been hardest hit by the pandemic of any of the communities in the Pisac district.

We took food and children’s clothes to the communities of T’astayoc and Perolniyoc, which were chosen by the mayor of Ollantaytambo as the communities in the greatest need now. These families live high in the mountains, where they do not have any job opportunities besides subsistence farming. They used to be able to work with tourists trekking through the mountains, or go down to town to look for work. Since the Peruvian government closed the borders on March 15th, there are no tourists to work with. These isolated mountain communities do not have any cases of Covid in the area, so any trip down to town is a risk for bringing the virus back from places like Cusco, which has a high number of cases.

The community of Sut’uc-Pacchaq is a two hour walk from where the road ends at the Inca archeological site of Chupin. Sut’uc-Pacchaq was chosen by the mayor of Urubamba as the area in greatest need. Fifty families were chosen by local community leaders as those most in need now. The few people in these communities who used to have jobs outside the community worked as horsemen, taking their pack horses on treks through the Lares valleys. With the hard stop in tourism, as a result of Covid-19, there are no more treks and therefore no more need of their skills or their horses. Everybody in the area is back to being a subsistence farmer, with some in more dire straits than others.

This was the project's first delivery of food aid to the Comunidad Campesina de Huancarqui-Ranraccasa, with the assistance of the mayor of Yaurisque Genaro Quispe Gutiérrez. The mayor brought a list of 186 families in need and as we drove through the community, we checked them off to make sure that we got everybody. Any member of the family could pick up the 5 kilos of rice an 1 bottle of cooking oil.